Within todays media lesson, we had to re-create a few shots from a sheet of paper, we had to re-in act the shots as if to say it was our own little short movie. Our video did not go quite according to plan...The reason for this is because our shots were to swift, they went so fast that it was too complex to understand. Another error was that the camera was slightly slanted, so some of the shots were of a canted angle. To the next error we see Richard running up the stairs in a fast motion, and we see that in one scene he ends landing on his right foot, and at the start of the next scene he lands on his right foot again, this is a continuity error. Also when we see Richard at the door, he ''magically'' seems to have teleported through the door and is casually looking at his watch. Our movie could have been improved in many a ways, specifically the timing, it was too fast-paced and hard to understand, it was all jumpy, and should of been correctly created..but it was not. However this is only our second time at using a camera, and bearing in mind i didn't even know the functions of the camera but in the end we kind of got there. 

Within the duration of todays lesson, we had our very first lesson on camera work. Through the process of this we looked at the diffent types of camera angles and shots, learned how to frame specific shots correctly and alter the cameras many functions, and also adjust the tripod in specific ways to get shots that we intended to accomplish eg; high shots, and low shots. Differentiating between some of the shots we worked on were as follows; Long shot, which allowed to see the environment behind an individual, these shots also help us to tell more about the person, where they are what they look like etc. Mid shot which allows us to focus more on the character, all the while not excluding the background, Close up shots, which allow us to mainly focus on the characters face, exceedingly benificial when wanting to show a characters emotion, extreme close up which allows us to focus mainly on a certain object or part of a person, this shot is exceptional when used with a blur effect, e.g; say if a character had a knife, you could extremely be close up to the knife and blur out the background to emphasise the knife's play in a film, giving the knife ''character''. Another shot we took was called well i cant actually remember the name, but i can describe it differently as a dutch tilt, this is where the camera is purposely tilted to one side so the horizon is on an angle. This creates an interesting and dramatic effect. examples of this shot can be seen in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and the Batman series. All of the camera shots mentioned above can be found in this video, created by myself, Georgia and Lindsey.

First Blog 01

our group consists of Myself; Patrick Wood. Jake Burton and Richard Chubbock. Over these next few weeks, we will be using camera's and software to recreate a horror film previously made by fellow bilborough media students. We will be duplicating their ideas, for example we as a group have chosen to re-inact their slasher movie, in which involves a girl getting stabbed by a man in black inside a homely environment. Throughout this project we will re-creat their short horror film as best we can.