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Image Factory / Image Language and Technology

Image, Language & Technology! Technical Workbook

by

Thomas Doukinitsas

SHOT TYPES:! These are some of the most common types of shots:! Extreme Long! Very Long! Long! Medium Long! Mid! Medium Closeup! Closeup! Big Close Up! Extreme Close Up! Establishing! Insert! Reaction!

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Other types also exist, such as Boom Shots, Flash Shots, Freeze Frames, Reverse Angles, Over the Shoulder, Pan/Tilt shots.! SHOT ANGLES:! The angle of the shot can affect the viewers emotion and perception. The higher the camera is positioned, the weaker the character may look, the lower the camera is the more menacing the character might look. An eye level shot shows normality.!

! A duch tilt (tilting the camera slightly) will give a sense that something is wrong.! ! A POV shot is from the Point Of View of the character.! ! RULE OF THIRDS / GOLDEN RATIO:! !

To get an aesthetically pleasing image, it would help to position the subject on the intersection points of an imaginary grid that splits the image in to 9 equal rectangles. 2 lines are drawn at 1/3 and 2/3 of the image, both horizontally and vertically to split the image in to the 9 rectangles.!

! The golden ratio is a photography term, and can also be applied to video framings.! ! 180 DEGREE RULE:! ! ! WHY IS EDITING SO POWERFUL? :! ! ! MISE-EN-SCENE:! ! ! ! !

An imaginary line is drawn between two characters. Unless the geography is well established, crossing that imaginary line through a cut will confuse the audience as to where the characters are located.!

Editing shots in a different order can change the meaning of the sequence of images, or it can create new meaning, even if that meaning did not originally exist in the individual shots.!

Mise en scene can be described as telling the story without dialogue. It is the placement of objects, props, set pieces, clothing, and generally anything that appears in front of the camera, in order to progress the story.!

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Image, Language & Technology! Technical Workbook

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Thomas Doukinitsas

FIRST TASK:! We were given the task to construct a story using 4 basic scenarios, and then tell that story using 10 still images. As soon as we got the brief we decided as a group to gure out the stories over lunch. After that we started lming the stories, and for each scenario we would switch roles. These are the results:!

Scenario 1 ! ! A couple sitting, one person is telling!the other a funny story"

Directed by: Faerez Shot by: Dowan Staring: Lydia and Thomas

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Image, Language & Technology! Technical Workbook

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Thomas Doukinitsas

Scenario 2 ! ! A two people having a disagreement!!

Directed by: Lydia Shot by: Dowan Staring: Faerez and Thomas

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Image, Language & Technology! Technical Workbook

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Thomas Doukinitsas

Scenario 3 ! Someone waiting nervously for news expecting the worse but are relived to have good news! "

Directed by: Thomas Shot by: Lydia Staring: Faerez and Dowan

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Image, Language & Technology! Technical Workbook

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Thomas Doukinitsas

Scenario 4 ! ! Someone eating a piece of fruit"

Directed by: Faerez Shot by: Thomas Staring: Lydia and Dowan 6

DFSA! Image Factory / Image Language and Technology

Image, Language & Technology! Technical Workbook

by

Thomas Doukinitsas

DIRECTING A SCENE:! After a workshop with Nigel Bristow we gained an enormous amount of knowledge.! We learned how to work as a team, and what different roles are supposed to do on set.! We were also given a very down to earth, easy to understand explanation of Mise-En-Scene, and the dos and donts of working in a professional environment. Surprisingly enough, Living in Oblivion seemed like a very real documentation of the on-set experience.!

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We also tried to shoot a scene, with individual roles assigned to us, and although we were guided by Nigel, we learned most of the donts the hard way.!

It was a great workshop, and it seemed to equip us with quite a bit of knowledge that we would need in order to complete our next brief.!

CAMERA AND SOUND INDUCTION:! In this workshop we learned how to operate the Panasonic AG-DVX100, and some of the basics in getting good exposure, sharp focus and good sound levels. We were introduced to concepts such as the iris, focus and zoom rings on the front of the camera, the sound input methods and level sliders, some of the menu settings, zebra monitoring to not over expose a shot. We also were asked to go out and shoot different shots as a group, and to get world sounds of interiors and exteriors.!

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THE BRIEF:! We were split in groups, and we were asked to plan, lm and edit a 2-3 minute lm, set on campus based on The Phone Call and The Meeting! We had to demonstrate all of the skills that we had learned over the past 4 workshops. We also had to demonstrate our storytelling skills.!

FAIRLY LEGAL / PREMIERE PRO INTRODUCTION:! We were given rushes from a deleted scene of Fairly Legal, and were introduced to Premiere Pro CS6. We were then shown some of the applications functions, and were asked to edit the scene as a portfolio piece.!

DFSA! Image Factory / Image Language and Technology

Image, Language & Technology! Technical Workbook

by

Thomas Doukinitsas

INTRODUCTION / LIVING IN OBLIVION:!

In our rst and introductory lesson we wached Living in Oblivion, a lm about a director, his cast and crew and how they are all trying to co-ordinate the production of a lm, and how everything goes terribly wrong. The main purpose of the screening was to show that very often on the set of any lm, either its indie or professional, if things can go wrong, they will go wrong terribly wrong!!

PRODUCTION ROLES:!

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During this workshop we also learned how important it is for everyone to have a single role, how they should stick to only the role that they are given and how they should communicate with the rest of the team in order to avoid any problems.