Continuity sequence

This is our Continuity sequence

What we learned:

• angles of shots
• not all angles work out
• to leave the camera rolling a couple of seconds after the scene

Mistakes:

• Looking at camera
• Closes book then open 
• Some shots too long and some too short

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was a graphic designer and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his design of film posters and picture title sequences. Bass worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Billy Wilder. Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the C.I.T. Financial Building in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.

Saul Bass-Psycho 

In this Opening sequence he uses such a simple method, but he also gets the message of the film across very easily. The motion of the lines going across the screen makes a kind of slashing gesture and the fuzzed type words show the sort of messed up psycho theme to the film.

This lesson we learnt how to use different camera shots.

Extreme close up

Big close up

Close up

Medium close up

Medium shot

Long shot

Extreme long shot

Two shot

Over the shoulder shot

This lesson (14th September) our aims were to:

• To learn how to make a film
• To identify key terms associated with film making
• To understand shot/reverse shot the 180 degree rule
• Match on action

How to make a film sequence

Narrative

• Usually unfolds through characters.
• Central character is the protagonist
• Narrative also unfolds through technique

Cinematography 

Mise en scene

Sound - digetic / Non digetic 

Editing - sound and picture

This lesson (13th September) we learnt the following:

•  Key film terms 
• To film a series of different shots
• To storyboard our continuity sequence

Continuity Sequence

The Brief: Film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

The task should demonstrate:

• Match on action
• Shot/reverse shot
• 180 - degree rule

Your film should be about 12 - 15 shots.