Framing is an important part of a film. It helps set the scene to what the emotion or value may be. Many directors use it in all of their films, it is pretty much a necessity to any good film. It is used in all sorts of films even documentaries. Through out the years of film the art of framing has progressed and digressed.
Films such as Mad Max: Road Fury and Inside Out are great examples for framing. For Mad Max in the most chaotic scene, the more it gets chaotic the more the framing is steady and focused. A bit weird but taking in to the fact that the good are the anarchists and the bad are the "gov't" the whole chaos is good thing begins to make sense. Inside Out is another great example because the framing technique in it is not about what is outside the shot or how sporadic it is, its about what is in the shot, what is key to everything at that moment.
Framing in films is easy when there is sound, what if there wasn't? A short film that is used as an example of what framing should be: which was from soviet russia (obviously past tense), was given the name "Strike". The theory of studying the film is known as the Kuleshov Effect. The whole purpose of the film is to see what opinion/emotion can be made from these few shots, one of a girl in a coffin, a man staring into the camera, and a woman sitting seductively in front of the camera on a sofa, and a bowl of soup. Now this whole idea of framing is in the process of the editing stage. You would think there isn't much to it but what if you place the footage in a certain order, what then? Thats truly up to whoever is studying the fim and what scenes are being shown.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Weekly comments
I am truly in love with the Kinetic type project. Yes it has its hair pulling moments *cough* the rendering *cough* but I still enjoy working on this project. At first I was purely intimidated by it, due to the fact we had to do it ourselves, no restrictions except time length and profanity. I am quite satisfied with how my project is going. It took me about 2-3 days just to finish one part (had to go in Photoshop and the rendering was just awful). But, I have picked up on my setback and have advanced to a point to where I am in a comfortable spot.
"What Is 'Hitchcock's Rule' & How Can It Help You Tell Better Visual Stories?" Analysis (the actual blog needed to be done)
In a way to Simplify this title is to anyone who doesn't understand is that by what it means is that there are different types of shots to give off a different feel to the situation/scene. In other terms, what angle/zoom is the most important for the character or for the scene in general for that moment.
A great way to remember this whole method of filming.
is, "The size of any object in your frame should be proportional to its importance to the story at the moment". This quote/way of thinking alone helps instill the idea of what it means to shoot a scene. The whole idea of this procedure is like shooting someone cooking. There are two different endings, One, the cook is making something special for his/her partner (medium shots of the cook and their working area) another would be like a regular cooking show (medium shot of the ingredients, recipe and food being made).
So let's now dissect how we would convert the footage we have in order to give those story's life. Like said before with the zooming on what's in the scene. do we want it to be personal for the chef? if so let's make sure he is in the majority of the shots or give off the implication of what he is making is for instead of the fact he is even making it. The other is the cook show appeal where we use footage of just the food and the ingredients. now the scene has become less personal and is now just about the food and not the chef. This is practically how Hitchcock's rules work.
A great way to remember this whole method of filming.
is, "The size of any object in your frame should be proportional to its importance to the story at the moment". This quote/way of thinking alone helps instill the idea of what it means to shoot a scene. The whole idea of this procedure is like shooting someone cooking. There are two different endings, One, the cook is making something special for his/her partner (medium shots of the cook and their working area) another would be like a regular cooking show (medium shot of the ingredients, recipe and food being made).
So let's now dissect how we would convert the footage we have in order to give those story's life. Like said before with the zooming on what's in the scene. do we want it to be personal for the chef? if so let's make sure he is in the majority of the shots or give off the implication of what he is making is for instead of the fact he is even making it. The other is the cook show appeal where we use footage of just the food and the ingredients. now the scene has become less personal and is now just about the food and not the chef. This is practically how Hitchcock's rules work.
Important
Because I am too lazy to delete the post, just entirely ignore the post about Public Domain, I just saw the first link and just automatically assumed that was what we had to write about.
"Need Public Domain Footage for Your Documentary? Here Are 8 Great Sources" Analysis
Public Domain is a god send when constructing a video (editing, not filming). It is especially great to have when making a documentary, because you cant always create your own footage, especially when the documentary is a historical one or at least uses historical clips/sources. Public domain s by far the bet when you are on a low budget because that is one more thing you don't have to use the film budget on.
There are different way a Documented source or media is brought into the *wrestling show announcer voice* "WORLD OF PUBLIC DOMAIN". One way is through the government. By that I mean anything the government releases publicly is already within the public domain, by law. A good example is Nasa, they are funded and owned by the US government.Any documents, footage and'or media made by the NASA program is now within the public domain. Another way is if the artist intended or sought out that their work be published into public domain. Lastly, a way to get public domain is time. Yes time. For instance, "take me out to the ball game". Obviously that song was written by someone as it is credited to but the big thing is that, because of how old it is it now lays in the specifications of public domain.
The whole world of public domain is helpful for any film student, artist, blogger, journalist, etc. because we as a people have a chance to talk about something without hanging ourselves into financial problems or a chance to present our evidence to our conversation properly.
There are different way a Documented source or media is brought into the *wrestling show announcer voice* "WORLD OF PUBLIC DOMAIN". One way is through the government. By that I mean anything the government releases publicly is already within the public domain, by law. A good example is Nasa, they are funded and owned by the US government.Any documents, footage and'or media made by the NASA program is now within the public domain. Another way is if the artist intended or sought out that their work be published into public domain. Lastly, a way to get public domain is time. Yes time. For instance, "take me out to the ball game". Obviously that song was written by someone as it is credited to but the big thing is that, because of how old it is it now lays in the specifications of public domain.
The whole world of public domain is helpful for any film student, artist, blogger, journalist, etc. because we as a people have a chance to talk about something without hanging ourselves into financial problems or a chance to present our evidence to our conversation properly.
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Weekly comments
These past weeks were good except for the demos we had to do. I tried to do as many as I could but I happened to run into problems with about half of the demos. A lot of them were internal problems, I just didn't have the time to get even more caught behind and be stuck so I skipped the ones that caused too many problems. Sadly I didn't do much of the demos. Obviously my fault. One thing I did enjoy the most out of all this week, was Friday when I began on my Kinetic Type Project. I am using a part from a monologue scene in one of Dishonored's Dlcs'. So far it is coming along great, I'm wanting to get the writing down first and then the camera movement. Thank god I have friends who know how to use the camera in Adobe After Affects. Speaking of Kinetic Typography, There are Two music videos and two regular typography videos that I think are very relevant.
"Brotherhood of the snake" - Testament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIgFsU0x4I&list=LLJaPQy0a8VTQebZskOCtWug&index=2
"Who's Life (Is It Anyways?)" - Megadeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnuFDczAkyM&index=1&list=LLJaPQy0a8VTQebZskOCtWug
V (V for Vendetta Typography): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otv5ywOa-8U
Kinetic Typography: Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjF2VqII0Kc&t=9s
I am not quite sure if the Megadeth video would truly count as a kinetic typography or just be labled as a "good" example. I do not really know what I want to learn in the future. To be perfectly honest, I am happy where I am now, maybe perfect it more but that is really it.
"Brotherhood of the snake" - Testament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIgFsU0x4I&list=LLJaPQy0a8VTQebZskOCtWug&index=2
"Who's Life (Is It Anyways?)" - Megadeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnuFDczAkyM&index=1&list=LLJaPQy0a8VTQebZskOCtWug
V (V for Vendetta Typography): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otv5ywOa-8U
Kinetic Typography: Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjF2VqII0Kc&t=9s
I am not quite sure if the Megadeth video would truly count as a kinetic typography or just be labled as a "good" example. I do not really know what I want to learn in the future. To be perfectly honest, I am happy where I am now, maybe perfect it more but that is really it.
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