COMPLETE YOUR REFLECTIVE JOURNAL Create a new sub-page in your reflective journal under the cinematography page. Name the sub-page ‘Basic Cinematography’. Create three headings on the page Inquiry Action Reflection This is what needs to go in each section Inquiry Embed all the videos that we have used to explore the meanings encoded by cinematography […]
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Cinematography – Moving the Camera
So in this lesson you are going to need to move the camera, whilst filming. So, smoothly does it…here is your list of shots for today… Shot No Shot Size Camera Movement Descriptions 1 MLS Pan Character walks into frame and pan to follow through a door, keep lead space. 2 MCU (High Angle) Tilt […]
Cinematography – Basic Composition
Framing (distance) Your mission for today’s lesson is to direct and shoot the following images. For this you will have to alternate taking the images and being the subject for your partner. You will have to take on the role of director and of cinematographer to ensure you get the shots you need. Once you […]
Cinematography 101
How can a film camera make meaning? Visual Glossary of Basic Camera Techniques The Best Shots of All Time Part 1. A great commentary on some amazing shots and the meaning that they create. Independent Study Using Google slides, start a collage of different shots from this video and label them with the correct shot […]
Introduction to the Camera
Lesson 1 The creative intention Whenever you go and make some film in the IB course, you must define your creative intention. That intention must go at the start of your reflective journal post and should be in your mind as you are making the film or completing the exercise. You should also use this […]
Pan’s Labyrinth Final Essay
An IB Film textual analysis essay is multilayered (like an onion). Here is a graphic, which tries to explain those layers: 1) The outer layer is the context layer. This film was made as a comment on the Spanish civil war, the people who rose to power (the Fascists) and the resistance of some, to […]
Representing Ophelia
Most films follow the story of one character, the central protagonist. Typically this central character has to undergo trials and overcome problems as the story progresses. These trails and conflicts change the character and they learn something essential about themselves or a great truth about the world. Today we are going to look at the […]
Introducing Mise-en-Scene
Film is a visual art and a key bit of advice to all screenwriters and directors is… ‘Show don’t tell’ MISE-EN-SCENE Mise-en-scene refers to anything that the director chooses to film and is a key way in which they can ‘show’ the story. Every element of mise-en-scene is carefully selected to communicate meaning, and mise-en-scene […]
Welcome to Film Studies
Welcome to a new adventure in Film…Studies. We will give you the opportunity to learn about the key roles in film production in a hands on way. Together we will explore film in a variety of ways and will encourage you to study films that you love. Here is a rough outline of the course. […]