DaniMediaStudies

 Welcome everyone,     Every movie must have a production company logo design, so we created our own too. We chose to call our production company Cherry Blossom Production. We came up with this design because we wanted to show our creative side by having a contrast. We wanted to see how we would be able to turn a somewhat childish name into a horror/thriller movie. Which I believe we succeeded in. We added the text in red with a creepy front. We included a cherry blossom tree as a logo but changed it so it can have a mysterious tone to it. We wanted to convey the message that not everything is what it seems, to create suspense and mystery.

 Welcome everyone,     Pre-Production in the filmmaking process is a crucial step. To ensure our movie will be high quality we had to ask ourselves the four critical reflection questions: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? How did your production skills develop throughout this project? How did you integrate - software, hardware, and online - in this project? Before we started to film our movie, we had to make sure it checked all these areas. We had to adjust our movie a bit, but luckily, we had to time to fix it beforehand. 

 Hello everyone,    To help us stay organized me and my teammate wrote a script for our movie. In the script we included the setting, characters, and dialogue. We also had to include whether the sound was coming from a voiceover, off camera, or onscreen. Since we have already been planning this movie for a long time, the script was not so hard to do. We were able to finish this script in a day.    We completed this script on a word document. We divided up the work by first brainstorming together to get our ideas in order. Then I was assigned to type up the script, while my teammate told me what to write. When we finished, we both double checked our work to make sure there were no mistakes. I'm glad we had the chance to finish the script early because then we were able to let our actors have enough time to memorize their lines. 

 Hello everyone,    Lately in Media Studies class, I have been learning about the importance of camera composition in camerawork. Camera composition in film is how all the elements works together and appear in a frame. Camera composition is used to advance a story. This can be done by revealing new characters, creating emotion, and keeping the audience engaged. Camera composition consists of the rule of thirds shot, symmetry shot, asymmetry shot, point shot, leading lines shot, shape shot, deep focus shot, and shallow focus shot.     For the last part of this assignment, we had to create a digital camerawork organizer that focuses on camera composition. To create this assignment, me and my partner decided to use a word document. For this assignment I had to state the definition and list two purposes for each shot. Then I had to take pictures for each different type of camera composition. I wrote the action line for each shot. I also included the tone, genre, and central idea for each t

 Hello everyone,     During Media Studies class, I have been learning about the importance of camera framing in camerawork. Camera framing refers to how you place and position subjects and objects in shots. This is more about composing an image rather than pointing the camera at the subject. Camera framing helps to convey the relationship of subjects to other objects. The different types of camera frames are one shot, two shot, three shot, four shot, crowd shot, over the shoulder shot, and insert shot.     For the third part of the assignment, we had to create a digital camerawork organizer focusing on camera framing. To create this digital camerawork organizer, we decided to use a word document. I had to include the definition and list two purposes for each camera frame. Then I went with my partner to take pictures of my shots. I then wrote the action line for each shot. I included the tone, genre, and central idea for each shot.     This assignment has taught me that camera framing i

 Hello everyone,     Now that I have learned the importance of shot sizes in camerawork, I will be learning about the importance of camera angles in camerawork. In camerawork, the camera angle marks the specific location at which the camera is placed to take a shot. This is used to provide a different experience and sometimes emotion. The types of camera angles I learned about were high angle, low angle, eye level, overhead level, Dutch level, hip level, knee level, and ground level. All of these camera angles convey a different emotion and feeling towards the audience such as uneasiness, creepiness, calmness, and suspense.     For the second part of creating this digital camerawork organizer, I had to focus in on the different types of camera angles. I included the definition and two purposes for each camera angle. I then took pictures for each camera angle. While taking the pictures, I had to direct the people in my shot what to do. For example, I had to tell them to act scared or mo

 Hello everyone,     During Media Studies class, we have been learning about the importance of shot sizes in camerawork. Camerawork is the way a camera is used. Shot sizes is how much of the setting or subject is shown in the frame. Shot sizes include close-up, medium close-up, extreme close-up, medium shot, cowboy shot, wide shot, establishing shot, and full shot. Shot sizes help filmmakers to emphasize specific emotions, ideas, and movements for each scene. For example, the establishing shot helps to establish the location and environment of a scene. This helps to emphasize the mood and gives the audience visual codes regarding the setting and plot.     For this assignment, I had to create a digital camerawork organizer. This was divided into 4 sections: shot sizes, camera angles, camera framing, and camera composition. For this post, I will be focusing on the shot size section. For this part, I had to take pictures of the scenes I am going to film in my movie. These pictures include

 Greeting everyone,    During media studies we have been learning about camera framing. Camera framing refers to how you place or position subjects and objects in shots, like composing an image. Camera framing is very important to filmmakers because it makes the shot more pleasing to view. This helps to keep the viewer's focus on the framed subjects or objects. When camera framing a shot you need to to consider the size, relationships, and balance. The type of camera framing shots we learned were single shot, two shot, three shot, four shot, crowd shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and insert shot.     For this assignment, we had to create a PowerPoint. We had to research information about each specific shot. Then we needed to find these types of shots from a movie. We had to analyze the importance of the shot it had in the film. The movie I chose to analyze single shot was a scene from smile. The single shot includes a women standing right in the middle all alone, w

 Sound in film plays a crucial role in the filmmaking process. Sound in film is used to enhance the visual storytelling. Sound includes dialogues, music, sound effects, ambient noise, background noise, and soundtracks. Sound is used to enhance a movie by engaging its audience, creating tension, evoking emotions, and delivering important information. The characteristics of sound consist of loudness, pitch, and timbre.     The three main important sounds are dialogues, music, and sound effects. Dialogue is the spoken exchange of words between one or more characters. It's most commonly used to show a conversation between two characters. Music in film is exactly what it sounds like, music that is in a film. Though it sounds simple it plays many roles in a film. Music can help to establish the setting, plot, atmosphere, and evoke certain emotions from the audience. Music can also help to create foreshadowing. Sound effects in film any sound that was artificially reproduced. Some example