Final Film: Travelling through the Past

The day we went all around the Motu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM70_wWTM2U

About: This video is about a group of people that went to film extra footage, around Auckland. Here are some of them.

Notes from class

In class we discussed what ISO, Shutter and Aperture was and what its used for.

ISO:- this is a setting that controls light- When shooting in a dark area, its best to turn the ISO up. This gives you an effect of what your eyes naturally see, not the lens.- For the best quality, use a low ISO, esp when shooting in the day time.- The higher the ISO, the noisier your footage gets.

Aperture (F/stop):

- This setting is used to control the lighting in the camera. This is used to control how much light you want, in and out of your footage/photo.

-  Controls your focus, Depth of field.

- The lower the f.stop, more light comes in.

-the Higher the f/stop, less light enters.

Shutter:

- this setting controls the dramatic effects in filming/photography.

- allows you to shoot with more light/darkness in the film

- allows to freeze fast motion

- our shutter speed was kept at 1/50

Lighting and different sorts of equipments.

-Natural Diffusers

Negative fill:- blocks light and stops it from reflecting

Diffusion:- filtering the sun if theres too much exposure

High key lighting:- lots of light

Low key lighting:- seeing black, Angle direct light.

Rig:- used to stabilise camera movement, when hand holding the camera. Something that you put on your shoulders.

Name of lights:- 
-red head
- Arrilite (800 watts) flood and spot
- Kino light (fluorescent light)

Sandbagging :- this is used to hold down the C-Stand, which holds the light and keeps them from falling.

Barn doors:- used to control how much light you want, to focus on a subject.

Extra notes:
The wider the lens, the more distance between the subjects. In line with the camera lens & the longer the lens, the closer the subject.

Follow focus: 
marked by a whiteboard marker, so you know where to zoom.

Video Analysis: 120 Seconds >Dorig< .

About: This video is about a man that works on his little pieces that he uses to stick on his belt. He talks about how at an old age, that when he retires , he will do something that hes passionate about.

Structure: Wide shot amd extreme closeups are mostly used in this film. From my view, i recon that these shots are used to show the audience, the workshop that this man is working in and the tools that are being used to create this little product.

The start of the film starts of with a dolly shot - giving the audience a sense of what the workshop looks like. This then carry's onto the subject making his product.

Extreme close-up shot - showing the audience that he uses these tools and just one of those things that he works with.

Another extreme close up shown on the product that hes working on. Shows the audience the of how he engraves his work onto this flat piece of steel.

At 00:58 seconds - this exreme closeup on his face, must have been shot to show the emotion or passion that he has in him.

The last scene has been shot, showing everything in focus. A wide shot has been used to show the environment that hes working in, also the tools that he deals with. You can pretty much see everything that the director wants us to see.

Response: I like this film, because watching it over and over again, gave me a sense of what the director was trying too show us. From this film i learnt alot about camera techniques and why you should use them and how you should shoot a scene.

Memory fav:

Video: A better Tomorrow

Source: Vimeo https://vimeo.com/109228612

This video is about a little boy that has learnt from his father and does what his father has done alone. His father has left his kids alone in this world.

Camera techniques and others.

The video maker has shot scenes of the unexpected, where in the beginning a wide shot of the little boy is standing on the sea side and a closeup of his hands picking seaweeds.

Wide shot in this film are mostly used to show where these kids stay and the surroundings around them. 

Extreme closeup has been used to show the emotion on these kids face when the little girl comes out of a dream.

The music 06:15, builds up when the watch a man has been looking for stolen by these kids father, magically brings a car in front of their eyes. The video maker then prepares to do a cartoon scene of theme in this car.

These camera techniques are some that i can maybe use to shoot my own memory video.

Daydreaming Italy: Lost in the Alps

Source: Video comes from the site Vimeo called "Daydreaming It{aly}: Lost in the Alps.

https://vimeo.com/51078732

This video is about a man that travels through the Alps where he meets strangers and other people. He did this to come out of his shell, so he explored.

It starts of with a close up view of his shoes and zoom right out to the view of the forest. The film-maker could have just filmed himself walking through the forest and filming his feet shoes while walking but instead, they had a sense to show the surroundings that his in.

From 00:00 - 00:28, there has been multiple cuts to this beginning, which goes with the music. The sound of the clock ticking makes an effect of when it changes.

Extreme close up shots have been used to capture this clock. The number 12 is in focus and the arrow in the fore ground is out of focus.

02:35 - 03:31 - The music starts to build up, which causes the video-maker to put in a variety of videos and images that consisted of close ups on shoes, mid shots of the surroundings around him and wide shots which gave a sense of the place he was travelling around.

His closeups were mainly used to show the photo above and the clock, while it ticks.

Task: Memory video fav analysis

Video: Memories of Vietnamn

Link: https://vimeo.com/99503341

About: This video is about memories and footage that has been taken in Vietnamn. It shows where a family has explored and what they have done.

Structure: Through this film it shows a variety of shots that shows the joy of their trip. The videomaker could have just filmed themselves walking around the community they were in but shows every angle of what their eyes are looking at. The music in the background brings these memories to life where in the beginning ot starts of slowly and begins to build up, causing the video maker to cut footage to the beat.

Mostly wide shot has been used to show the whereabouts and motions that has taken place. Reverse effects take place in the traffic scene which goes with the music at 01:26 and where a lady/man is smoking at 02:22.

The camera movements and techiques is somthing that i can use in my second film and will really give me that feeling of having to be keen to edit what i have.

First Memory Video

Theme: Memory

Title: Remember when we use to....

About:
Its about friends coming together and experencing what they have done when they were little kids. Spinning on the chair and playing in the rain and running up stairs.

Duration of the film is 34seconds. Through out the first half of the video, it begins with a water puddle that i filmed outside.

I mostly used midshots and closeups, because the footage shows what is important to me and the things i remember doing.

The Photo Man

Vimeo: The Photo Man

https://vimeo.com/69901302

About: 

This video is about a man that collects photos and these photos are of people that are complete strangers over the states. These photos are sold at the Markets.

Theme: 

I cant identify any theme that runs through this except Memory. Memory of people that has been bought by a complete stranger.

Structure: 

This video could have just been filmed in this mans garage and have him talk about why he has these, except the film maker shows where he keeps his stock and the place he sells it. This video shows that instead of the "Photo Man" talking, he took footage of people looking through these photos

Camera techniques/shots and other things:

This video starts of with photographs that has been taken and a voiceover of a conversation that the "Photo Man" is having with another person and then it goes into show where he stores all these photos that he has. There are shots of photographs that he holds and flicks which is a close up shot. None of the footage that has been taken is free handed, it shows a steady movement between the photos that has been shown and the market.

 

00:42: is the wide shot that shows how he looks at these photos. Everything is in focus and i think the videomaker is trying to show the viewers everything thats in storage.

01:01: shows a close up view of photographs that has been given to him. You can see that the the video maker has used a smaller f/stop which puts his hands and photos in focus and the blurry out of focus.

02:56 & 5:02: Medium shots have also been used to capture his emotions and feelings towards the people that take time to look at these photo.

Music:

The music starts to get more intense when he gets emotional and it just goes to show that he loves who he is.

Task 1: Analysis

I collabed with a student in my class and we came up with these video's using setting that were given to us and had to figure out what we should use while filming these.

 Video 1

ISO: 100

Shutter: 50

F/stop: 4.5

This video shows a great set of detail in the background where its not too blurry and you can just make out what it is. It also shows detail in the foreground where the leaves are focused on.

Video 2

ISO: 1600

Shutter: 50

F/stop: 5.6

You can see that the background is extremely out of focus and can tell that the ISO that has been used in this video is high. When the ISO is high and there is black in the background, you will see noisy areas.

Video 3

ISO: 3200

Shutter: 50

F/stop: 10

In this video everything is n focus and can tell by the ISO and f/stop.

Its not our best video but we did okay.

What was ur apeture used in the first video? 4.5

What iso did you use in the second video? 1600

What was your apeture in the third video? 10

Using terms such as depth of field, noise, exposure; what differences do you notice in the videos?

Quilt Analysis

Video: Constellation Quilt - Emily Fischer

How she got into quilts and what fascinates her the most.

Throughout the filming of this video, there are alot cuts that show how she does/make her quilts.

The videomaker could have just filmed Emily talking but took this to another level where they show the process of making using close up shots on her hands and the emotion on her face.

Gives the viewer of how she makes her thread also gives me an insight that its all in the hands and fabric and thread that has been used. This shows that the background is out of focus and hands in focus.

Closeup view on the planning of her quilt, but the pen is out of focus.

Closeup view of the detail in the quilt and how its made. 

With her voice over and talking it makes this video more interesting and draws me into listening more.

I like this video, because it explains a lot about what this person likes and what she is interested in.