Prelim film

Here is our preliminary exercise that me and my classmate Michael produced. We decided to pick the drama genre, so here is our go at a drama series.

Today's lesson

In todays lesson I looked at films such as pulp fiction and reservoir dogs. I looked at these films as I felt that  the films relate to the genre of our opening scenes, this has given me a much clearer idea of how I will set out separate shots.

Today's lesson

In today's lesson we started to plan our media opening scenes coursework, we came up with various ideas for things such as costume, location and a timetable for filming.

No country for old men analysis

Film intro evaluation

I will be looking at the introduction scenes for Lord of war.

The introduction only uses one shot throughout which is a POV shot on the bullet, this gives an important insight into the film as we automatically know it will be about war. The POV shot follows the bullet through its construction and transportation of the bullet, until eventually it ends up being fired towards a young boys head, this shows the brutal side of the often glamorized war. This film is supported by amnesty international so this brutality shown may play advantage to supporting this group.

Adding sound

I learnt how to put sound into my clips, I did this by inserting sounds from a program called soundtrack pro.

 We did this by saving sound clips from soundtrack pro, then inserting them into our clips on final cut pro.

Final Cut Pro

Today in class I learnt the basics of how to use FCP, such as how to open and insert text into a video.

Easy setup

This is the easy setup