Jess Emmingham-AS

This blog is going to be all about post-production in the tv series Utopia. Using an article written by 'Wired' ( http://www.wired.co.uk/article/utopia-channel-4 ) I'm gonna explain how Utopia have used post-production to get a unique look for their tv show to give it a comic book feel about it by using colours. There are 3 steps in production: pre-production, production, and post-production. Post-production is the editing after scenes have been shot and everything just has to be put together and working smoothly to give final result. Utopia uses post-production to edit the colouring using the 'three-strip technicolour process' which is usually used when in the old films when they used cinematography and coloured in each fame by hand by constructing green's, blue's and red's. However the director of Utopia (Marc Munden) wanted to use the same process but enhance the opposite colours- yellows, cyan and magenta's to give the show its bo...

So during lesson we were told to get into groups of 3 and video a short but sweet knife fight scene (however we didn't get a knife...thankfully as I was the one getting stabbed). So my group consisted of myself, Amy Hall-the other actress- and Katie Robinson who was the mind behind the camera. After taking a number of takes for different shots and using different angles, in our brief we were told we must use a wide shot to show the enemies facing off, close up's to show the characters faces, cut a ways, a whip pan as we threw the knife and then had to preform a dramatic death. We then used  Clipper which is an app on iPhone to piece up all the takes together and to edit the video to finally end up with the final product. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making (please ignore the dead girl blinking the scene got cut short).

During lesson we got to go out around school and work in groups of three to try out the new camera shots and angles we had been taught in the lesson previously. This included low shots, medium shots, establishing shots, extreme close ups, tilt shots, etc.  Establishing shot Above is our first shot which is an establishing shot, this is used in films and TV series to show the audience the surroundings and to set the scene.  Over the shoulder Then we have our over the shoulder shot, this can be used to build tension and suspicion, we've used this so it seems as if there's someone following another girl but it can also be used for conversations between characters or arguments in particular as it gets close to the characters and sees how close they are reacting to build tension. Also we have used this shot to show that the characters are walking towards the trees where its dark this is to foreshadow that something might go wrong....

Welcome to my blog!!! As this is my first blog post please excuse any rookie mistakes I apologise in advance I'm not a pro...yet. I have never studied Media Studies before as my school didn't give it as an option at GCSE however if I had the chance then I would have chosen it as it's a subject I've always wanted to study. One thing I have always enjoyed doing is watching films and TV and love watching all the behind the scenes also and that's why I'm looking forward to doing media because ill be learning what they do behind the scenes and all the different pieces that are out together to make a film/tv/clip. Our first lesson we were sent to do some camera shots which I really enjoyed because it was getting straight into practical which I like as I'm not the type to be sat behind a desk if you know what I mean. So finding out we have 3 practical lessons mad me vey happy! On this blog I'll be sharing my first project (creating a 2 and a ha...