Jess Emmingham-AS

Although I completed this as part of my study of the representation of gender for my AS exam, it is relevant to the my coursework as, in planning for this, I will need to consider how the representation of gender is constructed through the use of camera shots, mise-en-scene, editing and sound. This will hopefully enable me to represent characters in a variety of different ways in my film opening .

Below is our final cut of our preliminary task, this post is only to show the end cut, how we have come to this point during pre-production is explained in posts such as 'Location! Location! Location!' and 'The Storyboard', and how the producing and pro-production will be in the next couple posts coming. I hope you enjoy our production we are quite proud of it as it is our first time making something like this and using the software we have used. Enjoy...              

Place! Whether it be a warm humble abode or a dark eerie castle the location is what sets the mood of a scene, you wouldn't want to have murder scene happening in a field of flowers and roses (unless it had an awesome sick twist to it where the flowers may represent something) but normally you wouldn't expect something like that as it doesn't fit together. So this is why location is so important! I know its only a preliminary task and doesn't mean too much to many people but getting the right place to shoot meant a lot to our group as we wanted it to be realistic to the plot as much as we could be. This meant that everything had to be perfect so we needed a room that was small, out of the way and quite (not asking much from a school with nearly 2,000 pupils and staff),and it needed to be dark with dim lighting or barley any at all so that the scene would feel more mysterious as we kept one of our characters identities a secret. Luckily we found a room in a school th...

So in my blog before you'll know that our media task/ preliminary task is to create a short clip of someone having a conversation and using at least match of action, shot reverse shot, and 180 degree rule. In my group we have me who does the filming majority, Amy mainly directing and Katie and Lauren acting. Our production is about a school dealing taking place however it might not be as it seems...below you'll see the story board to our clip so you can understand what we are hoping it will turn out like and how we have imagined it.     This was our first step in pre-production of our scene and in my next blog I shall be showing some photos of where we are shooting our clip which is another step in pre-production finding the right place and also behind the scenes of production.

Our first proper filming task we do in media is our preliminary task in which we are to do a scene where a character is seen opening a door and then having a conversation crossing a couple lines of dialogue to one and other. In this task I am working in a group of four this includes: me, Amy, Lauren and Katie. Techniques we must use in our production: 180 rule: This is when two characters maintain the same left-right relationship so that when the audience is watching the scene and the camera cuts from one angle to another it gives a clear understanding of where the characters are to each other, without this rule the audience would get very confused because instead of looking at each other it would seem that they were looking at the same thing. Match on action: Where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action, this gives the scene a smooth glide from one shot to another. Shot/reverse shot: a film technique where one character ...