PLANNING:TRELLO

I have created  a Trello which is an online organisation tool that will help me keep track of my work. I intend to update it as I work to see what I have done and what else I have to do.

Below is a screenshot of my September checklist.

THE BRIEF

I am doing the video brief:

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

Continuity task: filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180% rule.

Our work

For today's lesson we did a filming practical. The meant that we had to choose an option out of 6 ideas so we could make a short film. We chose the option about Australian security. 

We started off by filming our two actors coming through the door, one dragging the other through the door. The shot was taken from a front angle. Once they were through the door we filmed from each side of the person who was talking (shot reverse shot), then we switched the camera angles each time the other person was talking. 

We then edited the film using iMovie timing out the parts that didn't go as expected. It was quite hard as there was a lot if back ground noise so we had to crop it out.

MARK RIBOUD'S PHOTOGRAPH

This photograph was taken by Marc Riboud, the image can be seen as a symbol of peace against war. There is a complete contrast between the two sides of the photograph, the one side many soldiers all lined up holding weapons up looking very aggressive. Then on the other side there is the girl looking innocent holding up a flower which is a denotation, it can  represents the symbol for peace which is a connotation. She shows bravery to be standing there in front of all those soldiers as she is so vulnerable as it’s just her compared to them, she is powerless and has no defence but her flower of peace against the many strong soldiers holding up there weapons. Looking at their clothes also show the contrast, the girl is wearing a flowery shirt which connects to her idea of peace which makes her image stronger whereas the soldiers are all in army uniform in protective attire which suggests they are the weaker ones as they need protection and weapons for their image but all the girl needs is her flower. The whole image is a connotation, it is a symbol and has meaning but it is shown by denotations which are the actual meanings of the content in the photo.