Audience And Institutions

We have now moved on to our second unit 'Audience And Institutions'.
We have been looking at "The Big 6", this is a nickname given to the 6 biggest media conglomerates. Wikipedia defines a media conglomerate as " a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet."


Here is an infographic showing the shift in the amount of media conglomerates over 28 years

Film Setting

Here is where the ending of our 2 minute film will be set. With the footage on a phone being discovered.

Editing Problem

While editing the beginning of our piece we noticed there was some unwanted diegetic sound. We have fixed this by muting the shot and adding some non diegetic music into the beginning shots

Shot Types

Here are a few example shots for our 2 minute clip.

Mid shot

Long Establishing shot

Low angle Mid shot

Over the shoulder shot

Preliminary Task Evaluation

I think that making our preliminary task was an important step in developing our skills in shooting and editing film.


Positives:
+ Our piece used a variety of camera shots
+ The non diegetic sound was well paired with the footage to create tension
+ The setting was ideal


Negatives:
- The shots were often jumpy and continuity didn't flow smoothly at times
- The dialogue was difficult to hear at times
- There were some unnecessary shots
- The camera was shaky in some shots


Targets:

• Use a tripod to get steady shots
• Improve editing to give better flowing continuity
• Edit the dialogue to be louder or use a boom microphone
•  Improve on choosing appropriate shots

Preliminary Task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yM1cb4IbZc


This is the footage we edited for the preliminary tack which was to film a short conversation.

Filming Continued

Today we continued filming in the top of outwood house. We had to postpone filming at the end of last half term, as all of the cameras were being used