Creative Intention for the week ‘To explore and understand how to shoot video and edit footage for continuity.’ Reflective Journal You should create a new page under Editing, called ‘Continuity Edit’. This page must will be split into three sections: 1) Inquiry Please find a link to this slideshow. Make a copy and embed into the […]
Cinematography in Your Reflective Journal
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 […]
Editing in WeVideo
You are going to edit your basic cinematography edit in WeVideo To get on WeVideo: Sign up for a free account using your school Google account. Click on the sign up with Google icon and confirm using your school Gmail. To upgrade to a full account you will need to follow this link. You will […]
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 […]
Context & Pan’s Labyrinth
In order to understand and appreciate a film more fully we need to study the context…. OK…so…what is context then? Historical Contexts These are the historical events which surround a film’s production. The film itself might also be a response to a specific historical event (as in Pan’s Labyrinth). In that sense there may be […]
Narrative in Pan’s Labyrinth
Narrative Analysis of Pan’s Labyrinth. Task: Create a presentation (on Google slides) which analyses the narrative features in the Pan’s. Please work in pairs and use no more than four slides, one for each section listed below. 1) Structure The film starts at the end and takes us back to the beginning – why? Also, […]