Film

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Preview

In my media class today, we were asked to re-create a scene from "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" to help improve our photography skills when taking different shots. The scene was a shoot out which contained a variety of different shots including a long shot, mid-long shot, close-up, mid-close-up shot and an establishing shot. We are currently in the process of editing our shots and so the video should be posted within a day or two. So for now enjoy these photos of us shooting the video. 

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Finale

Finally the editing has been completed, it was extremely fun not only to create our video but to edit it too. We decided that an old filter, with film grains would help with the western, old effect to the final complete video that we were hoping for. Some shots we processed in slow motion and others we thought it would be more effective to have it at a faster pace. Here is the video, enjoy. 

The video was a bit of fun, used to help us understand different camera shots and not a serious video. 

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Class Work Terminology

Diegetic Sound: Sound that comes from the person of object in the diegesis (the world of the story) and seen within the field of vision. 

Ambient Sound: background sound belonging to diegesis but not always in the field of vision.

Sound Effects: Sound added to visual editing.

Sound Motif: Sound associated with a character or a place.

Sound Bridge: This is where the sound (either diegetic or non-diegetic) continues across one or more cuts/transitions. 

Dialogue: The sound made by characters talking to each other. 

Voice Over: Where a voice from outside the diegesis gives the audience information. 

Direct Adress: When a narrator or a character speaks directly to the audience, not to the characters or the diegesis.

Score: Music composed, arranged and played specifically for the production.

Sting: Musical Stings are short bursts of music.

Non- Diegetic Sound: Sound that comes from nothing within the field of vision and has been added afterwards in editing process.

In class today we were discussing media termonology, to test the students who had previously done media and and to help teach the students who havent. Here is a swift review of the Magazine Glossary we discussed:


Sychophantic - Meaning to suck up to something.
Strapline - Appears often over the top of the masthead.
Mode Of Address - The way the magazine "Talks to the audience"
Layout - The way the page is designed and formatted.
House Style - A particular magazine about layout, font, colour scheme, spelling ect.
Imagined Communities - This refers to the phenomenom where people feel as as if they know are friends with or exist in the same community as people in the media they have never met.


We also touched on the subject of airbrushing which is where photos are digitally manipulated to distort reality. In the next few days or so i will go into further detail about airbrushing but for now please enjoy this video showing some of the effects of what it can do:



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SOUND CLIPS IN TV DRAMA/FILM

Diegetic Sound: Sound that comes from the person of object in the diegesis (the world of the story) and seen within the field of vision. 

Ambient Sound: background sound belonging to diegesis but not always in the field of vision.

Sound Effects: Sound added to visual editing.

Sound Motif: Sound associated with a character or a place.

Sound Bridge: This is where the sound (either diegetic or non-diegetic) continues across one or more cuts/transitions. 

Dialogue: The sound made by characters talking to each other. 

Voice Over: Where a voice from outside the diegesis gives the audience information. 

Direct Adress: When a narrator or a character speaks directly to the audience, not to the characters or the diegesis.

Score: Music composed, arranged and played specifically for the production.

Sting: Musical Stings are short bursts of music.

Non- Diegetic Sound: Sound that comes from nothing within the field of vision and has been added afterwards in editing process.

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