LINAAH AND MY VIDEO

Film Type:
A Music Video with a message

Brief:
Intention - to show stereotypes among young adolescents

Purpose -to inform people that stereotyping young adolescents is bad

Target Audience - teenagers particularly because it is them who does alot of stereotyping of others and alot of the time they don't understand the effect it can have on those people

Idea (Synopsis) - A music Video that features different youth that are stereotyped such as emos, nerds, fobs, skaters etc

Possible Themes:

Ideas:
Setting - In public and each character will be shot were they hangout such as skates at the skate park and surfers at the beach etc.

Music -

Dialogue - At the end of the film when the footage of the characters has been displayed a message about stereotypes will come up.

Sound effects -

Characters - We are going to get young people who fit the groups of skaters, FOBS, emos/goth/scene, gangsters, surfers, nerds/geeks, blondes, bisexual, black/white, fat/skinny, braces, glasses

Props -

Costumes - Just what the people are wearing

Camera Angles - Close ups of peoples faces

MAKING A VIDEO

1. Executive producer: manages time line and budget
2. Writer: takes the idea or concept and writes the script
3. Producer: in charge of the creative team, secures the service of the production crew,
prepare shooting schedules, on time and in budget
4. Director:directs the cast and crew, tells people what to do, explains the production to
technical crew and performers and has the final say
5. Production manager: coordinates all the different stages, track the production
6. Storyboard artist: draw up rough sketches, visual interpretation
7. Camera operator: shoots the required scenes work with the lighting director who ensures
the desired effect is created
8. Sound technician: ensure the dialogue and other sounds are properly recorded,
microphones and levels are correct, final sound mix
9. Talent: are the cast, deliver the content
10. Editor: finish off the production, cutting footage, music, graphics, special effects and text

11. Define brief: Intention, Purpose, Target Audience, sets the limitations of the proJect
such as budget and time frame

Pre-production

12. What is the purpose of the pre production stage?
Plans of the shooting are put into place
13. What are some of the tasks done in the pre production stage?
scripting, scene breakdown, storyboard, shot list, casting, locations, equipment hire,
catering, transport, informing people
14. Why is the pre-production stage so important to the production process?
It is preparation
15. What are three important things to remember in the pre-production process? Making sure you had an available setting,

Production

16. What is the production stage also known as?
The doing stage where the shooting of the film takes place
17. What are some tasks done in the production stage?
camera operator and lighting, sound,
18. What are three important things to remember in the production process?
shooting schedule is followed, variety of camera angles and shots, safety issues
19. What does ‘continuity’ mean? Why is it an important consideration of the
production stage?
making sure that certain objects and items are still in the same place

Post-Production

20. What is one of the major tasks completed in post-production?
Editing
21. What is the difference between an off-line edit and an online edit?
Offline (rough cut edit) On-line (final cut edit)
22. What are some of the tasks done by an editor?
Cutting footage and audio together, graphics, titles, sound mixing, work with
Producer/Director
23. What task is done after an edit? What is the purpose of this task?
A sound mix can be made where a sound technician adjusts sound so they are correctly
balanced

EXPERIMENTAL PHOTO SHOTS

FILM & GENRE

BLARE WITCH
THRILLER

The Simpsons
CARTOON

THE GOD FATHER
CRIME/EPIC/HISTORICAL

MOULIN ROUGE
(HOLLYWOOD) MUSICAL

ALIEN
SCIENCE FICTION

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
WAR FILM

FRIDAY THE 13TH
HORROR

BRAVE HEART
HISTORICAL FILM

27 DRESSES
ROMANTIC COMEDY

WILD WILD WEST
WESTERN

LIFE OF JOHN BUTLER
DOCUMENTARY

INDIANA JONES
ADVENTURE

ARMAGEDDON
DISASTER MOVIE

CASABLANCA
ROMANCE

TITANIC

MISE EN SCENE:
LIGHTING: There was warm lighting in the machinery room to give a sense of heat and a lot of work going on, Blue and dark creating a suspense feeling and sad, tragic feeling
SETTING: The deck of the boat shows what is happening around the ship and the iceberg that is drawing nearer. The machinery room shows what is happening in the ship and what all the workers are doing.
ACTING: Sweating
PROPS: Iceberg, steering wheel, machinery,
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
CAMERA SPEED:

SOUND

EDITING

EDITING

MISE EN SCENE

This is the combination of all the visual elements within the frame (frame: the physical boundary that contains what the audience sees)

SHOT TYPES

EDITS

Fades
Wipes
Dissolves
Cuts

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGER

CAMERA MOVEMENT: The start builds up anticipation by flowing the camera slowly with the movement of the girl then builds up to fast. The slow the camera movement to show the action in slow motion and also go back to the people watching

CINEMSTOGRAPHY

NOTTING HILL

GENRE: Romantic comedy because it was a warm and happy setting that developed into a more intimate relationship between the two lovers.
SHOT TYPES: close-ups to create the sense that the audience is with the characters to create an intimate encounter. Wide long shots to create a context of whats happening.
LIGHTING: Warm lighting to give that warm fuzzy feeling in the house and then that warm loving moonlight to create an intimate moment between the characters
PROPS: Clothing is designed so that it could be someone you know to connect the audience to the characters. Brownie and the fence emphasised how different they were a characters. The wheelchair and the park bench was a symbol for love.
SETTING: Warm laughing household then o a moon lit park that is soft and loving.

BASIC FILM TERMINOLOGY