Contexts of Practice BCOP100 - 21st October

Wednesday 21st October 2015

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of Practice                    Lecture - Lucy Leake 

Nothingness - Designing posters 

Today at the start of the lesson we started to recap on non-places and we were given a brief to pair of, use our photographs of non-place and to create a few concepts of posters. Since I had my photographs we decided to use mine to create some sort of horror poster, I wanted to experiment using photoshop to re-create my photographs in a spooky way, we went with the theme of woodlands as I had taken a few images from Buckland Abbey which is where I work. 

Photo's used

The above photographs were taken using my phone and a Nikon DSLR camera. Photos taken by Luke Curno (PCA Student) - October 2015

I was really pleased with the final products for our poster designs as when it came to showing them, a lot of people liked the opacity and how we had used a photograph of water as a mist/fog trail for through the woodlands. I really loved experimenting with the brightness, Hue's - Saturation and just the way that we could layer images on-top of each other to give a mirror effect, whilst using specific parts of the photographs and resizing them to symbolise water, clouds, trees, mountains etc. 

Here were a few examples that we managed to create. 

Poster 1

Layered the pictures on-top of each other, changed the opacity of the images, went online to get the rip effect, used that for the dominant image of the woodland, wanted to impose a reddish blood colour to the sky so as to enhance the posters title and the theme for the film. We used the lasso tool to cut the image out and then the rip effect we pasted over the top with the intention of the image showing through the rip, giving it a rugged edge effect. This worked really well and once faded out it looked distant, spooky and empty. 

This certain woodland once looked at could be argued that it is non-place but from working their myself I know that it hasn't been opened up to the public as such, it is mostly visited by visitors and people who work there. I feel that it is a non-place as not only is it distant (not many people visit), but I feel like the visitors and staff are making and using the space/place as their own, laying flowers, chilling out by the pond and enjoying the glorious walks around Monk's Pathway. This again is why I wanted to use this spot for a horror film as it is deserted, quiet and at times tranquil which would confuse the narrative for the audience who are watching, you wouldn't expect anything to jump out at the camera, builds up tension to certain aspects of the film. 

The quote was positioned dark at the bottom of the page, most people don't notice it at first, you have to take a closer look at the poster, everything starts to make sense and the writing draws you in closer, the quote makes a few people think once it is looked at, there is even a hidden face within the poster, see if you can find it? 

Finally, we looked up existing film posters so as to get some inspiration, ideas to fit our chosen quote (located at the foot of the poster). We used the colour red for the title of the film so as to enhance the colours of the posters dominant images and background colour. 

Poster 2

This poster was a little different, we kind of went with the idea that it is Back to the Future day and we wanted to use the colours and the text for the quote to symbolise that. We started off by using an image that I had taken at Plymouth Railway station, a long shot looking up the railway track. Next thing that we did was to fill up the empty space of the sky, to do this we super imposed another image of a hotel onto the poster, and changed the opacity so that it looked like it was in the distance. 

The font for the quote came out retro style looking which we then tied back to the colours at the train station. We wanted to use the words within the image, so we decided to put the reference for the quote on the yellow line along the walkway, we then faded it out to look like people had walked over it, been using the walkway throughout everyday commutes.

Finally, just like the other poster, we wanted to play around with the contrasts and colours for the poster, we wanted to enhance the bright colours and show some sort of shadow formation as if there was a lot of cloud coverage, all of these colours could then be linked back to the FUTURE.

Here are a few mockups of posters

Practical Screen-craft - 20th October

Tuesday 20th October 2015

Course Module - BAFI101                      Practical Screen-craft                        Lecture - Stu Bailey

Experimenting with Sound

Today we had a tutorial on the sound equipment that can be used with the H4N Zoom microphone such as the boom mic, shotgun mic, omni mics etc. We looked at directional and Omni directional mics and we were able to test out some of the equipment towards the end of the lesson.

Myself and Sam went down to the library, we had the aim to use a really quiet place, people see it as a tranquil space to learn and relax with a book, we found out through the tests that the library sounded much louder through the shotgun mic, which was what we were using. The following is a list of sounds that we captured and what we thought they sounded like, could be used as foley for specific scenarios within film;

Sound Test

Pens/pencils - Writing with chalk on the board, if this was recorded slower or at a lower frequency we thought that it could have sounded like the sea moving.

Brushing the carpet - Sounded like someone using sandpaper on wood.

Walking down the corridor - We got a teacher to walk down the corridor outside our tutorial room, we could really hear the sounds bouncing of the walls down the hallway, lots of reverb. We followed his footsteps with the microphone, as we traveled and brought the microphone closer, the sound started to pull in and the further we got, the more quieter his footsteps sounded.

Flicking through a magazine - Sounded like crisp packets, the fasted that you flicked through, the more it sounded like a fire starting.

Shuffling the DVD boxes - Train going across the tracks

Tapping and dragging our fingers - The repeated tapping started to sound like a gun firing where as the dragging sounded like an aeroplane starting up.

Ideas and Concepts BAFI103 - 19th October

Monday 19th October 2015 

Course Module - BAFI103                          Ideas and Concepts                       Lecture - Dan P

Tutorial for Super 8 City

Jay didn't turn up to this tutorial so I went solo - Myself and Dan, the lecturer discussed the Super 8 Project ideas that I had come up with, with the aim of achieving a final plan for filming.

Nizo camera - We will request a tripod to enable us to film the panning shot of the Civic Centre, get different angles of the centre, high angle, low angle, wide angle etc.

We can use the same shots over, play it again in reverse, slow motion, cut away, lighter/darker, play around with the brightness and colour in post, give the image a different perspective that can be perceived in many ways.

Thought further about our shot list for the Super 8 project, what sort of angles am I going to use, how am I going to achieve the frames, continuous or using single frames to create a time-lapse effect, could be really effective to slow down the motion of the ripples in the water, creates a distorted image which is reflected back through the cameras viewfinder.

Dan, our lecturer advised me about the lines of the building, keep them lined up, try to avoid any curvature with the building architecture.

Talked about the camera's settings, set the red dots on everything for the standard shooting mode, could be worth getting a cable release for the camera which will require the camera on the black dot for use, 18mm standard use for the super 8 camera.

Collect my film stock on Friday from Stu at ERC and then book the camera for a day on the week commencing, ask Stu if he can run through operating the settings of the camera to familiarise myself with what can be achieved.

Super 8 test - IPAD APP

Prior to my discussion with Dan P, I decided to download a super 8 application onto my IPAD as wanted to see what the footage would look like in Super 8 film, the tests went really well, especially when I could see the water reflecting of the sides of the walls. However, due to the sun being really bright, the reflection in the water was a bit faded, which in my mind I thought helped to add a mysterious mood to the building, making it look decrepit. Also I thought that this would make the film look like it was fading away, giving it a scratched effect look.

From today's test, I know that this specific shot will have to be filmed early morning or late afternoon as I need the cloud cover in order to get the best reflection. Having been out today, I have found a few different angles and reflections which I think could work, one panning shot made the building look like an elevator as I moved the tripods handle downwards, with the camera looking up at the roof of the building.

All of the above images were taken using the SUPER 8 application on my IPAD - Videos captured by Luke Curno - October 2015 - Civic Centre, Plymouth. 

Contexts of Practice BCOP100 - 16th October

Friday 16th October 2015

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of Practice                    Lecture - Lucy Leake 

Non-place photographs

Today myself and dan went out to get some photographs in town to show non places, over all the location scouting went really well and after asking permission we were able to go behind the scenes at places i.e. the train station, coffee shop etc. Below are a few photographs that I managed to capture for my homework. You can really see how people pass through these locations but they don't stop to look or anything, pass on by.

All of the above photographs were taken using a Nikon DSLR camera by Luke Curno and Dann Hobbs (PCA Students) - Plymouth - October 2015

Contexts of Practice BCOP100 - 14th October

Wednesday 14th October 2015

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of practice                  Lecture - Lucy Leake

Place and non place

We started of the lesson by watching the first 20 minutes of the film "This is England". Montage at the start which was showing wars/crisis, memorable events and famous people such as Margret Thatcher, at the end of the montage it was showing footage from the Falklands war which told us as the audience that the film was perhaps dating back to the 80's. This is then reinforced at the start by the date that pops up over the photo of Shawn's dad, he was in the war and died, throughout the film, Shawn the boy doesn't like anyone talking about the war or his dad, in fact he fights Combo at the start, they become closely attached until the end of the film (I know this from watching it). 

When watching the film we noticed that a lot of the people are living in tatty homes, council estate flats, also we are made aware that there are a bunch of chavs who are hanging out under the subway, they look thuggish, not sociable which is emphasised through the dark colours and the shadows on the walls behind them. Despite them being sat under a subway, this was their place, they had made it their own, we see graffiti saying "Milky waz ere" and then shortly after we are introduced to Milky as being Woodies main man. Turned into a place of ownership. MAKING lonely places into their own playground.

Place - Something is in one place and not another, implies stability or something is fixed like relationships. Everything is in it's place. Graffiti is seen as a way of reclaiming spaces.

Non place - Non-places generate solitude, it is what one passes through on the way to something else, leaving no impression behind or any feelings for the place, often somewhere where others don't visit. They are places designed for one specific function and don't have any meanings or feelings, traditionally inherit in place.

Sense of place 
We are distant from place, it is said that nowadays we don't go out a lot, we prefer to stay inside on our phones or play on the consoles in front of screens. Itinerancy - Get out their, experience more of the world. Super Modernity - Different take on how we live - Finding our identity in our surroundings. Is it not natural to be in a constant state of movement rather than standing still.
We are all moving in a world of global change - Remember unique qualities, physical and how is it perceived.

Example of sense of place 
Koyaanisqatsi - Until now you have never seen the world in a different way - Life out of balance, we watched the trailer as a class for the film and we realised that their was no dialogue until the end where there was a line of VO, the trailer showed a narrative through different time lapses, speed up and slowed down in various places to give the feel that time is moving on.

Space

 Space is produced as an effect of functions that orient it i.e. the street is transformed into space by the people on it, means that space is a practiced place, the space doesn't define the use, the behaviour does.

Personal space
Invisible and undefined three dimensional area surrounding an individual and when invaded it can cause nervousness, discomfort, embarrassment or contact with others. Example - Tigers personal space is 30 feet (fact got from our powerpoint presentation).

Other spaces
We have intimate space (our space), personal space (talk with family and friends), social space (talk with acquaintances) and public space (public speaking).

Humans may be highly sensitve to places and spaces:
Agoraphobia: Fear of public/open spaces
Claustrophobia: Fear of confined/enclosed spaces
Domatophobia: Fear of houses, home
Ecophobia: Fear of home surroundings
Kenophobia: Fear of empty rooms
Koinoniphobia: Fear of rooms
Oikomania: Abnormal interest in being at home
Oikophilia: Attraction to one’s home (sexual)

TOPOPHILIA - Love of Place - Attached to a place

More spaces
Physical space - Whats going on around us.

Cinema space - Shared spaces like the cinemas allow us to feel connected to stories and belong in the same room, have the same ideas and takes on what is going on.

More places 
Home - as our place, we like to test spatial boundaries within our homes, creating territory i.e. playing with a fort as a child.

Third place - this sort of place offers an escape and builds community narrative known as a place between home and work. Example - TV i.e. soap opera's.

Hyper-real places - Pretend and incredibly real, get to experiment, push boundaries of your own existence i.e. GTA game you can get the cops to chase you by breaking the laws within the game, shooting, driving like a mad man and robbing stores etc.

References

This is England (2006) Directed by Shane Meadows [Film]. UK: IFC Films

Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Directed by Godfrey Reggio [Film]. USA: Island Alive, New Cinema

Practical Screen-craft - 13th October

Tuesday 13th October 2015

Course Module - BAFI101                         Practical Screen-craft                        Lecture - Stu Bailey

Camera control -Exposure Triangle 

If an image is too dark then that means that it is under exposed, known as "crushing the blacks"  and if it is too light then that means that it is over exposed, known as "blown out". 

3 main controls in the exposure triangle 

Shutter Speed - Creates motion and blur for the image - important to use a set shutter speed of 1/50= 50 - standard is 25fps so x2 to get 50 but then if you want slow motion you can do 50fps x2 to get 100fps. Adjusting the exposure of an image doesn't need to use the shutter of the camera. 

Going down makes our image look lighter, going up makes it look darker, increasing everything will make the picture look fake, unrealistic which can look awesome for films like horror and SCI FI. 

ISO - ISO is the sensitivity of the camera, standard ISO 100 - 400 lower the iso the slower the filming speed. Iso within the Cannon 600D's is only usable up to 1600 as after that the image will start to deteriorate and become grainy. Even using 1600 ISO can give you some of that grain which could create noise on your image, doesn't look great, better to have a nice clean image. Always make sure to set your ISO before you start shooting. 

Aperture - Predominantly this is the main way to control exposure and light into the camera - Hole in the lens of the camera, know as the iris which is the mechanism that controls the whole for the aperture. 

Term used - F stops - There are a set range of F-stops in each camera which will give you a different sized whole. However, we have to be aware that the numbers are the reverse to the aperture. 

F2, F2.8, F4, F5.6, F8, F11, F16, F22 - Stopping down on these will half the amount of light that the camera is letting in, opening up will obviously increase the amount of light that is being let in to the camera - Not all lenses will open to the same amount, 

Example of a slow lens - Cannon 600D which has an F-stop of 3.5 
Example of a fast lens - 1.5 F-stop 

The brighter the aperture, the shallower the depth of field. Depth of field is the term used when we describe whats in focus from the front of the camera to the back of the lens. The better the lens, means more aperture which will give a shallower depth of field. 

Always a great idea to under expose your image as you can bring up the colours of the foreground in post production i.e. editing.

If an image is dark, you will need to add light but if an image is light then you will want to use something known as an ND filter, known as a neutral density filter which you put onto the end of the lens. You can get a full frame ND filter or you can get a variable ND filter but in most video camera's such as the Canon XF100's that we are using, they have ND built into them so video cameras are much more setup as oppose to DSLR cameras.

Ideas and Concepts BAFI103 - 12th October

Monday 12th October 2015

Course Module - BAFI103                          Ideas and Concepts                       Lecture - Dan P

Super 8 City - Progress and planning 

Myself and jay got together, looking back on the footage that I had shot in the previous week, we started to write down a shot list for the production, we discussed about the middle content for our Super 8 film and how the angles and parts of the building could link on to each other, possible transitions, effects for post production or just manually using the film camera to achieve creativity. 

Panning shot from the water to the top of the building, parallel lines and a line of symmetry down the middle of the building. Using the water puddles to capture reflections and the remains of architecture on the outside of the Civic Centre. Looking at the different patterns and surroundings that we could film and use to create a narrative for our super 8 film, here are a few ideas that I came up with;

Wide angle of the Civic Centre

Reflections in the water

Zoom shot - Portraying the clouds in the windows of the Money Centre 

Experimenting with lights and shadows around the buildings, taking into consideration about the angles we could film to show the decrepit state of buildings. 

Possible Voice Over that we thought could be used to add a narrative to our Super 8 Film, would link the footage of buildings to the words i.e. the concrete struts around the Civic Centre and underneath the Money Centre. 

Here is the VO lines that we came up with;

Pebble dash is the new black
Concrete struts, the new white
Fragile glass towers
Monuments to man's bloated ego
Their original intent forgotten

Ideas and Concepts BAFI103 - 8th October

Thursday 8th October 2015

Course Module - BAFI103                          Ideas and Concepts                       Lecture - Dan P

Location Scouting and Shooting

Myself Josh and Dan went out on a shoot last Thursday to capture some ordinary shadows and reflections around the city centre, we constantly generated ideas while walking around plymouth, using interesting angles, locations and focal lengths on the camera, whilst adjusting the lighting to suit the time of day or mood that we wanted to represent. We also made decisions around changing the iris, especially for a shot where I started filming the clouds reflecting in the window of the Money Centre (Mayflower Street). We started of at the top of town, but our main shoot was carried out by the Civic Centre, Plymouth, we played around with the reflections of different parts of the building around the pool and the reflection of ourselves as we walked past the buildings windows and small puddles along the ground. 

The shoot as a whole worked really well and we captured the reflections of the buildings as we proposed, here are just a few of the shots that we liked, being imaginative and experimental with the shape of the buildings and artefacts from around the Civic Centre. 

Go-Pro Footage by Dan Hobbs - Plymouth College of Art student - I was out shooting with him and Josh (PCA students) - October 2015 

Contexts of Practice BCOP100 - 7th October

Wednesday 7th October 2015

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of practice                  Lecture - Lucy Leake

Practise of Looking

Images on a daily basis, open the realms of popular culture and are produced for a variety of media.

Roland Barths - Images have 2 levels of meaning.

Dennotive - Picture of an apple

Connative - it's a red apple, colour signifies love and danger

Miche Foucault "things we do are learned, regulate our own behaviour, we obey laws

Leprosy - Hidden              Plague (1665) - Watched

CCTV - We are captured in everyday life on many camera's either in shops, on the streets and so we looked into CCTV, however we are never sure that the camera is turned on or whether it is watching us, but it does make people think twice about doing things, regulating your own behaviour.

Surveillance is about looking, have mixed meaning.

(l'accordeur) The Piano Tuner - Oliver Treiner

Unexpected - Really well thought off (the shots towards the start were happy and warm - reflected through the choices of lighting).

Pretty intense - Perfect ending, the way that it ended created both tension/suspence. The scenes when put together gave a representational space, colours were really deep, enhancing the mood, gave the feel that he was central to the film, everything happened around him from his P.O.V. For example the women dancing around him as he was playing the piano, it helped to show imagery, everyone wanted him as they felt like they could do what they wanted without being watched as they thought he was blind.

We talked as a class about our blogs, the aims and objectives for the notes that we make, we were lectured by Lucy, she gave the brief for this WHOLE module and the 4 different types of projects that we have to create which all sounded interesting.

We were advised to create a separate post on our blogs where we should create a list of our references used throughout the module i.e. work being referred too, cinematography, films, books and quotes etc.

Later on that afternoon, I got out of the library the book 'Practises of Looking' - An introduction to visual culture - by Marita Sturken/Lisa Cartwright.

References

The Piano Tuner (2010) Directed by Olivier Treiner [Short Film]. USA: N/A

• Sturken, M, & Cartwright, L. (2009). Practices of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ideas and Concepts BAFI103 - 6th October

Tuesday 6th October 2015 

Course Module - BAFI103                          Ideas and Concepts                       Lecture - Dan P

Constructive Environment

World Of Tomorrow (1939) - (gives the impression of Las Vegas) - A film we viewed during class 

We looked at a short film portraying New York's World's Fair, it gave a sense of what America could be like in the future, it gives the idea that they are great in power. Throughout the film I picked up on the content, it could be seen as propaganda as they make it seem like it's the biggest country, and forms of racism because the coloured people were treated like a sideshow. The buildings within the film looked imposing as they were grand, dominated by ornate architecture, the whole piece was edited clearly and everyone looked happy, symbolised through the dancing and events going on in the images. Political and cultural messages might be invisible to some people, driven by capitalism (my own opinion). 

Googie Architecture - Modern 

Walkways on stilts (concrete struts), pyramid structures

Different angles - Logo McDonalds, shaped for looking like carriers that you get for your chips

Primitive aspirational, past and future.

Boomerang shapes for roofs, common feature, (symbolising the wing of a delta bomber plane). 

Large domes, often made of concrete. 

Cars were built to look like Jets 

Googie buildings appear to float - a few attracting the motorists, glass fronts acted as virtual billboards.

Atomic Energy - Americas abilities to generate the products and the power is fulfilling.

We went out for a walk with the class to look at the city and see what things stood out or could be interpreted in different ways, looking at reflections, shadows, with a specific area of focus at materials used, whats the potential for the place we are looking at. Explored Plymouth City Centre, went to places like the bank, drakes circus, shops, car park, court, guildhall, water features. 

My Concepts and Ideas

Drakes Circus - The entrance to the shopping precinct is shaped and it looks like the bottom of a bridge deck, bottom of a boat.

Around by the Billabong Surf shop there was a blue box which was positioned on the outcrop of a building, looks really significant and can be seen from far away, gave me the impression of the TARDIS police box in Dr Who, I thought this could perhaps be linked to our short film as not only would it link into the journey but also it's as if by shooting on film that we have travelled back in time - could be enhanced by film grain and colours (sepia tones). 

We looked at various buildings around the city centre, they were modern, ruins, pubs, shops, banks, theatres, parks etc. Lots of buildings had the decrepit feel to them by this I mean that after analysing them on a 360 point, we started to see different shots, vertigoes, glass panels and the fact that in some places the buildings were crumbling, structures have been built in places for cover from the loose debris that have fallen in the past. 

The photographs above were taken on my mobile phone - Images by Luke Curno - October 2015  - Plymouth City Centre. 

RESURGAM - Will rise again (linked to the bombed church) Time traveling (TARDIS box), when were they built, what has been left. At night it could be said that the City Centre looks like a ghost town apart from Union street which is full of bars and night clubs.

Reference 

The World of Tomorrow (1939) Directed by Fredrick Ullman Jr. [Short Documentary]. USA: PerescopeFilm.com 

Practical Screen-craft - 5th October

Course Module - BAFI101                     Practical Screen craft                   Lecture - Stu Bailey

Focal Lengths

At the start of today's lesson, we had a recap on last weeks learning, going over the different mediums, their uses, resolutions, aspect ratio's, scanning and others. Next we started to look at focal lengths in a lot more detail, thinking about how the script is read and illustrated in camera/cinema effects (impacts of given focal length on frame), the distance from the lens to the censor at the back. We talked about the fact that some high end camera's have something which is known as a crop censor, the starting point for a crop censor would be 35mm or so. The lecturer wanted to get us thinking more about the effects that different focal lengths can give, we watched a short clip from a film called "Stand By Me" this was a great example as right at the start of the scene their was a long shot of the bridge, tracks back to the children as a close up shot, helps to give the impression that the distance that they have travelled is shorter than what they have left to get across. These specific camera angles have been used to convey the journey across the bridge - it's elongated. 

Examples of focal length and Dolly Zoom

Jaws - On the beach, the camera zooms in really quick to see the guy on the beach, pulling him into focus.

Cinematography by Bill Butler  [1]

Saving Private Ryan - Sniper bullet shot through the enemies scope, penetrates the glass and shatters in front of his eye.

Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski [2]

Indiana Jones / Raiders of the lost ark - The boulder at the start chasing him through the back of the temple. Great example, camera would have been placed with a telephoto lens, zoomed in far away and then the cameraman would have slowly zoomed out to give the impression that Harrison Ford was being chased by the polystyrene ball. 

Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe [3]

Different focal lengths are used a lot, primarily in genres like horror movies to portray an abandoned room or hallway, gives a great perspective of the hall and then could be used to pull back and show someone being chased or just portray how elongated that the hall actually is without having to move the camera, very effective.

Zoom Lens - Different focal length - Much more flexibility, better off for events and documentaries.

Prime Lens - Fixed focal length - Better quality of glass, a lot sharper, making it more expensive but faster. Linked back to aperture, controlled by the f-stop, the whole is a bit bigger, better in low light conditions that the zoom. Used for more considered film work, drama based. 

We were given a short brief to carry out using a Nikon 7200 camera, with a set focal length of 18-105mm, we had the aim to play around with the focal length of the camera to create a short film. I took control of my group and put the idea of stop motion to practise, it was extremely hard to come up with the angles but the planning was spot on for the project, the idea behind "Get Out Quick" was that their was a fire in a students flat, using the idea that we talked about for hallways and I tired to change it slightly with a low angle looking across the light beams on the floor. I made it so that we would be slightly out of focus in parts to give the sense of movement, we were in a rush  and then the parts where people were dawdling were in focus to show that they weren't in a hurry. Worked well for the camera angles and the fact that I used the camera and my brain really well to create an experimental piece which looked quite good. However if we had more time I would have liked to have played around in the edit, slowing down a few of the clips as the piece was made up of digital images and so it would have flowed nicely with a slower duration, say 20 sec.

Types of software

Non linear - Dive into various clips to use anywhere, in any order. 

Premiere Pro - Adobe
Final Cut Pro  - Moved to Final Cut Pro X 
Avid Media Composer 
Davinci Resolve 
Vegas
iMovie 
Lightworks 

We need to make sure that when editing, whether it's at home or in college, to save everything into a big folder which then has sub folders, this will make it easier for us but also the computer as it will be able to locate everything needed to play the project i.e. sound, video, still, effects etc. The lecture then went on to tell us to ask any editor and they will say that organisation of our work space is key to become a success and efficient at what we love doing. 

Shortcuts for Premiere Pro 

Selection - V 
Ripple - B Increase length of two clips (effecting one edit point)
Roll - N Rolling around edit, adjusting start and stop points of two clips.
Trim - T

Lift - Deletes area but leaves a gap
Extract - Deletes area and gap

3 point editing

Slip - Y - Used if you want to make any final tweaks 
Slide - U
Razor (C)

References 

[1] Jaws (1975) Directed by Steven Spielberg [Film]. USA: Universal Pictures

[2] Saving Private Ryan (1998) Directed by Steven Spielberg [Film]. USA: DreamWorks Studios, Paramount Pictures and Film Flex

[3] Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Directed by Steven Spielberg [Film]. USA: Paramount Pictures.

Ideas and Concepts BAFI103 - 5th October

Monday 5th October 2015

Course Module - BAFI103                       Ideas and Concepts                       Lecture - Dan P

Location Scouting

Today I went through some of the photographs that I took on the wednesday after we had finished early for the day, I took a trip up to the park behind the University and myself and Dan Hobbs (another student) booked out a canon XF100 and a Nikon DSLR camera as we wanted to get to grips with how they work and what purpose they can serve when out on location.

The footage wasn't amazing, but we we wanted to go out to test the cameras, ISO/White balance, depth of field, sound quality and additional features such as the shoot modes etc.

Here are a few images that we captured to show us using the cameras, I got down to ground level to film a spider, carefully and slowly zooming the camera, in and out to play with the depth of field and zoom, when played back, the footage was clear and it the attention to detail was great on the web, got to see the water droplets on foliage.

The images below were captured using the nikon DSLR that myself and Dan took out with us. Images taken by Luke Curno and Dan Hobbs (PCA students) - October 2015 - Beaumont Park.