Things I should consider when filming my film opening.....

• Locations - Hopefully around my area as we have a limited time to film for our film opening, so we do not need to waste time travelling.

• Actors - Have my actors ready, also have back-ups in case someone is ill. Also consider about extras to help make the film look more realistic.

• Costumes -  Would be good if it is already accessible, if not, it is reasonably priced as we have limited resource/money. 

• Props - Again, good if it is already accessible, if not, reasonably priced as we have limited resource/money.

    Costumes and props should match the time period and genre of my film so     the film will look more realistic and everything we look into place.

My Prelim Task

The Principles of Continuity

Match on action:

• Is a continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. 
• It creates the impression if continuity.
• The action carrying through creates a "visual bridge" which draws the audience's attention away from slight cutting.
• It portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two separate things. 

Shot reverse shot:

• Is a continuity editing technique used in conversations of characters looking at each other or objects.
• A shot showing what the character is supposedly looking at (either a POV or over the shoulder shot) is followed by a reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at it, or of the other character looking back at them.
• Shot reverse shot often ties in with the 180º rule to retain continuity.

The 180º rule

• It is a guildline that participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other, with filming only taking place within the 180º angle.
• This allows the audience to have a greater sense of the location in the scene in terms of what may be off-screen in some shots.

Cinematography Lesson

In our media lesson, we watched three videos:

Chicken Run (6:50 - 9:56)

After watching part of Chicken Run, I think the film makers are really clever by using the sky light to 'hint' us about the mood changing and what is going to happen. When Fowler the Rooster is standing on top of the house, the sky light is surrounding him which suggests that he is powerful and has a high position if the camp. When Mrs. Tweedy enters the camp, the sky changes into dark and stormy which suggests that Mrs. Tweedy is a evil character and also suggests that something bad is going to happen. At the end of the clip, there is a close-up of Ginger which suggests that she is going to make a change and she is the one in power. I think these cinematography are really clever because they all make us realise what is going on without using any words or dialogue. In my film production, I am sure I would use 'hints' to warn the audience what would happen just like they did in Chicken Run.

Wallace and Gromit, Curse of the Were Rabbit - The bit when Wallace uses his luna-light powered brainwash machine to brainwash the rabbits which did not end up as well as he though it would.

This clip gave people a gothic feel as there is a long shot from the beginning showing everything is shinned by moonlight giving them shadow which make everything scarier, so when the machine is turned on, it suggests that the experiment will not go well. The switch of the brainwash machine is labeled clearly which also suggests that something will go wrong due to the switch of the machine. Again I would love to use 'hints' to warn the audience what would happen later on in the film just like what they did in this film.

John Lewis Home Insurance Advert 2013 - Things Matter

This advert makes everything came into live; it made everything as if there were animal e.g rug move like a snake, spoon look like meerkats...I think this is really clever because giving a live to an object makes them more important which matches the objective of the advert - Things Matter. I would love to use this kind of animation is my film production but I think it would be too time consuming as we have to move the object step by step.