start of course

helloo, this is a sum up of everything we've learnt in the past few weeks since starting AS media. We started off looking at storyboarding, where we made a dummy storyboard of an sequence. We then filmed the sequence to see whether our story board actually made sense, this showed us that the narrative of what the director intends does not always come across how the audience reads it. We did this first in a class group and then in smaller groups. This helped us consider the conventions of continuity editing.

  The next thing we did was analyse a simple continuity sequence which we storyboarded and refilmed. This helped us find out the importance of not crossing the line when filming, and look closely at the surroundings when filming. It also showed us what shots and how many are included in making one simple sequence.

  We then filmed some practice shots that are important in thrillers. To do this we got into a large group, and tried to build a narrative around the shots we were practicing. We stuck to the thriller genre and created an opening based on a man placing a briefcase under a car. We wanted to make the briefcase look like it had a bomb in it, so we used lots of close up shots of the bag, and shots of the character holding the case, to make him look sneaky. We also used point of view shots, circular pans, over the shoulder shots and a variety of others to practice these shots.

  Finally we watched the opening of the film 'Ripleys Game' to look at what enigmas are used to create suspense, for example, shots, music. 

Abby, Becki and Megan