10 shot types

10 shot types 

In this article, I have learned the basic 10 shot types that most used in filmmaking which are close up, extreme close up, high angle, long, medium, over the shoulder, establishing

1. Close up shot: a shot that keeps only the face full in the frame. Here is an example of close up of actor Robert Downey Jr. in Marvel's The Avengers.

2. Extreme close up: a shot that is so close that show the detail of the particular part of the subject.

Extreme close up of the character Harry Porter in Harry Porter

3. High angle shot: show the objects from above and make the objects look week or frightened.

High angle shot in Marvel's The Avengers.

4. Long shot: the shot used to set the scene in a film. Here is a long shot in Mr Bean's Holiday.

5. Medium shot: a shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, allow some of the backgrounds to be seen. For example a medium shot of the character Loki in The Avengers:

6. Over the shoulder: is a way to film dialogue between two or more characters in the film. It is easy to shoot with 1 or 2 cameras point to the subject in the line of action to get the best shot. Here is how the over the shoulder shot setup with 2 cameras:

 And an example of the dialogue between 2 characters Summer and Tom Hansen in "500 days of Summer"

7. Bird's eye shot: a shot looking directly down on the subject.


8. Point of view shot: to show what the character is looking at which represented by the camera.

An example of a Point of View shot from Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1. This is an extremely clever way to use a POV, as it uses the mirror to show both what the character is seeing, and what his expression is.

9. Low angle: opposite with the high angle shot, this angle shows the objects from beneath and makes the objects look powerful

Mark Wahlberg in Transformers: Age of Extinction

10. Two-shot: A scene shot with the camera positioned to observe two actors. Here is a two-shot in the film TED.

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Camera

In this article I will attempt to learn how to use a camera and the basic settings to get a good shot.It is very important to know how adjust the camera to have a quality shot. The settings consists of white balance and exposure.

1.Exposure

In filmmaking, the exposure settings of aperture, shutter speed and ISO are analogous to the width, time and quality. Each setting controls exposure differently:

Aperture: controls the area over which light can enter your camera. The higher number of aperture, the higher light restricted.
Shutter speed: how long the light is permitted to enter the camera.
ISO: is the sensitivity of the digital play.

2.White balance

The white balance chosen in the camera will change the colour of the images, makes the images look warmer or colder

Key concept

In this article I will attempt to understand some basic key concept in media studies:

-Media forms (forms of media) : the group that communicate information and news to people, it may refer more specifically to radio, television...

ex: audio media, print media, The Sun, Metro....

-Institution: a formal organization ( controlled by itself) that distributes and creates media texts. Institutions are (according to Key Concepts in Communication by O'Sullivan, Fiske, Hartley & Saunders 1983)

ex: channel 4 constrained by its foundation through an act of Parliament, into providing for minority. interests, the BBC is a non-profit making public service broadcaster with a turnover of millions.

- genre: is a French term for type of kind. In media studies it is a theoretical term for classification of media text into type grouping.
( Branston with Stafford, 2010.74, 436)

Film, magazine, newspaper and television are all media genres. Types of film, magazine, newspaper and television programme are also genres.

ex: horror, comedy and musicals are filmed genres, fashion magazines are a magazine genre.....


Representation: describe and create ideas or topics from certain perspective. By definition, all media texts are re-presentations of reality. This means that they are intentionally composed, lit, written, framed, cropped, captioned, branded, targeted and censored by their producers, and that they are entirely artificial versions of the reality we perceive around us. When studying the media it is vital to remember this - every media form, from a home video to a glossy magazine, is a representation of someone's concept of existence, codified into a series of signs and symbols which can be read by an audience. However, it is important to note that without the media, our perception of reality would be very limited, and that we, as an audience, need these artificial texts to mediate our view of the world, in other words we need the media to make sense of reality. Therefore representation is a fluid, two-way process: producers position a text somewhere in relation to reality and audiences assess a text on its relationship to reality.

ex: homosexual, women, disability groups....

-Audience: the groups of people targeted by producers to view the media text they make include the viewers, listeners and readers.
ex: older audience, middle ages audience.

-Ideology: is a set of beliefs and values held in common by a group of people and reproduced within that community to sustain its particular way of life.
ex: Islam, Christianity, Communism...

-Narrative: the media term of a series of fact, the storyline and structure of a media text. Narrative are structured within genres

ex: the plot in a movie, the plot in a poem 

Research/market

In this article I will attempt to understand some basic knowledge of how to do research and market for the media forms.

1. Into the wild.
The audience that the film want to target is adult and teenager as the film is about the life of a young educated man named Christopher. The film is enjoyed by people who like adventure, open minded and for those who have conflicting relationship with their parents. Male and female are targeted to see the film.

2.The construction of Gone girl.
The construction of a film for specific audience is also very important. In The gone girl we can see that the main colour used in film are really dark as it is an horror action film. The director tries to shoot the film in different angle and uses verbal. The constraints show that the film is aim for audience who are twenty five and above as it has a lot of action,bloody scene and mentioned about the darker side of marriage.

Lighting

In filmmaking, lighting plays very important role as it can create mood, draw attention to a specific area.Lighting helps you place emphasis on the subjects that are of more interest, while taking away the attention from the lesser important objects from the overall shot.

The 3 point lighting set up:

Is the basic set up from the beginning of the shot and is used through out the whole scene without adjust.3 point lighting consists of three primary lights:
1.Key light: the subject's main light source
2.Fill light: reduce subject's shadows and contrast
3.Back light: separate the subject from the background

 

High key light: reduce the lighting ratio in the scene and often suggest an upbeat mood.

Low key light : increase the lighting ratio in the scene and is usually dramatic and mystery.