Tracking/Push Shot

This short clip from the Evil Dead trailer contains several examples of a pushed tracking shot which we would like to use in our short sequence the example is most appropriate when the girl is chased through the woods.

It would be highly effective for setting the timbre of a melodramatic thriller adn creating the idea of paranoia

We may have decided?!?

We may have deliberated in our group and have possibly decided on using my idea on do-ability in the time frame and the accessibility of the set, props and actual physicality of the location. Based on a short storyboard we produced in half an hour we have a rough estimate of a time frame of about 68 seconds which should be long enough and we've checked to make sure we've added everything we need like shot reverse shot and displaying the 180 degree rule.

Other Proposals

Stacy- Romantic resturant low key, sun shining through the near table, almost blinding the man - Man proposes, but woman declines, as she was on her way to tell him that she was cheating on him with his best friends and that they were getting married instead, then man drops to the ground suffering a heart attack!

Me - A man is sat at a table in a seedy pub, low key lighting, chiascuro, smokefrom cigarettes.The door opens and another beardy man enters and sits opposite the first man.He hands him a package.The first asks : 'Is this the stuff'?'The second says : 'Yeah, handsome'The first says: 'I'll take your package anyday!'Match on action-Passing the drugs package

Jonnny - A man is sat in a bar, struggling to open a bag of crips. A woman walks in and sits oposite him, she says 'would you like a hand with that?'He replies 'No im ok' At which points the women grabs the crisps from him and opens them with ease. Handing them back he looks deep into her eyes, and says 'I think i love you' THE END!

Sophie- A woman is sat on a table by herself; waiting for someone she seems agitated and nervous. A man enters sits infront of her, he never looks directly at her. She says; " I want it done.... as soon as possible" he replies " No more time will be wasted... the deed will be done." The woman is organising for her Husband's lover to be killed.

Match on Action- The woman places a wad of money on the table and quickly leaves.

Filming And Editing

My Proposal (DRUGGIES)

My proposal -A man is sat at a table in a seedy pub, low key lighting, chiascuro, smoke from cigarettes.
The door opens and another beardy man enters and sits opposite the first man.
He hands him a package.
The first asks : 'Is this the stuff'?'
The second says : 'Yeah, handsome'
The first says: 'I'll take your package anyday!'

Match on action-Passing the drugs package

Post 4 - Another Shot Reverse Shot Example

This is another example of a shot reverse shot:

The use of shot reverse shot is changed during this short clip and is therefore a good example. The shot starts over a man's shoulder but is then reversed over the shoulder of the opposing female to reveal two characters in their two shot. The uniqueness of this is the distribution of space this creates and also balancing the perspective of the man's view of the vicar character and the female, creating a greater sense of composition and the illusion of equality. One thing slightly negative about this shot is the uneven eyeline match of the initial shot, in which a significant character is placed lower in height due to physicality and the initial aspect of her disillusionment. If I were to re-compose the shot I would create the initial shot over the shoulder of the shorter female to establish the man's height over her and that would allow the audience to acknowledge his height and the eyeline match would be unimportant as her height is almost a humorous device in the scene's context.

Post 3 - 180 degree rule

This is an explicit use and breakdown of the 180 degree rule:



And is therefore a good example for the basis of my preliminary task

Post 2 - The Group

Today we decided on a final group that will continue throughout the preliminary project to the main project. My group is as follows:

• Me (John Vallis) ( I am a well rounded worker who applies himself to all tasks but is easily angered at computers and technology, I also study music and I have a background in sound production and sountrack composition, my following gcse in media creates a fruition of production and theory .)
• Jonathon Prince (he is a good planner of production [music production] but is less efficent in his use of technology and in segregation has a theoretical midset which is also transferable to the practical elements he is also good at executing, his quiet persona is a good balance to our overwhelming personlaities)
• Stacy Williams (she is a confident deligator but is prone to dissulionment, incredibley she also studies A2 film studies and has a comprehensive view of ideaologies.)
• Sophie Thomas (is a positively charged worker and aims high although sometimes overshoots her possibilites as in her photography project and the experience she has in photography will aid the group on composition and shot type.)

We will now work together to research, plan and create a final media project hopefulyl within a group which appears to be refined and balanced towards deligators and workers and internally the equilibrium should be maintained well.

Post 1-Intro To Brief

This is the first post in my 'AS Media Production Blog', and will consist of research and planning that i have produced towards both my preliminary and main tasks.

Today I was introduced to the preliminary task in which I must produce a short piece of visual stimulus that includes the following:

• A character entering a room who proceeds to sit opposite another and engage in a short dialogue.

It Must include these cinematographic devices:

• Shot Reverse Shot,
• The 180 degree rule and
• Match on action

Which should maintain a feeling of verisimilitude through continuity editing.

An example of shot reverse shot is:

Within the first 3 minutes of this clip we had a combined use of and interior establishing shot and a continued use of shot reverse shot. The combination of shot reverse shot over Harry's shoulder and over Sally's then combines to a close up point of view shot form Harry's perspective, framing Sally's face, this highlights the comedic elements by placing us as an on-looker in the crowded room from Harry's point of view, we are also invited to participate in the voyeuristic nature of the scene by the dissonant use of a medium length shot entwined within the conversation backthrow of shot reverse shots. The intention to remove the closeness created by the over the shoulder aspect and allow us to experience this as an onlooker and find hilarity in the performance, in combination with the sudden loss of diegetic sound this is a good example of shot reverse shot in action.