Millie built her very own Snorricam! Somehow we must learn to hide the wooden legs so they are not on show, hopefully with the school's new purchase of FinalCut. When we first discussed building a class Snorricam, I had not really thought about how we could incorporate ours into our opening, yet it in fact works rather effectively. I think the snow in the background along with the roughness of Millie's face works great with the expressive emotion we are wanting to display within Annika's surroundings.
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Snow Day
Fortunately, we have also been given a snow day in England! A fantastic opportunity to get a few perhaps, big-money shots for our opening due to the snow. Millie and myself were forced to walk everywhere, I was quite pleased with the fact I managed to shoot quite an unexpected shot of 'Annika' walking in the middle of the road through the snow whilst the day started to get darker. We did attempt a pan shot of the sky (as the moon was very bright), yet the street lamps were so bright that the quality came out rubbish. We will without a doubt make use of this snow throughout this Christmas period - especially as it will add that extra Swedish feel to our entire opening.
School Trip to Holland
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If Millie had remembered to update her passport, she too would have attended the Holland trip where it would have also been a great chance to get a few shots in the snow! As part of her punishment, she made her DIY Snorricam. |
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Thursday, 2 December 2010
A Day Trip to the BFI
Today, our media class all decided to ignore the horrific weather conditions, which consisted of A LOT of snow and an extreme risk of catching hypothermia..
We took the train to Southbank where we visited the British Film Institute for a course on Film Openings. The first half of the course introduced to us the basics of what is reflected from a film opening about the film as a whole - whether that be by its narrative, genre, setting or sound. Speilberg's Catch Me If You Can was one of the openings we watched, it is a very clever opening - created purely from the magic of graphics.
A little unrealistic as we need to incorporate a variety of shots in our project, not just animation.
Soon after being shown a couple more openings using a very useful website: http://www.artofthetitle.com, we were then able to listen to Daniel Kleinman, a commercials director. He shared his experiences during the making of titles for the Bond series - including, GoldenEye and Casino Royale. Heres one of Kleinman's commericials - this one is for planestupid.com
The animated polar bears are quite shocking, as well as the realistics of global warming. The hard hitting polar bears are effective in allowing the audience to sympathise with these statistics.
The last part of the course involved us viewing some previous AS media work. The first couple gave us an extremely clear idea of how to not film. The best one had to be The Premonition, which simply involved a teenage boy calling out "Is Anyone Out There?" in a strong Bristol accent.. I can safely say it should have come under the category of Comedy.
Heather was our film archiver for the day and put together this small film for us, which rounds up the day - managed to capture snowballs unexpectedly hitting Ms. Routledge's head..
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