Tips for Production

Lighting
http://production.4filmmaking.com/lighting.html

Video Production
http://www.cameratim.com/video-production/tips

Mobile Videos
http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/contribute/tips/mobile/camera_video/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/contribute/tips/mobile/mobile_video/index.shtml

Technical Tips
http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/contribute/tips/camera_lighting/technical_tips/index.shtml
http://vimeo.com/videoschool

Art Class 09/02/12

We were using dry pastels today and focusing on drawing landscapes from a photograph.

Colour Temperature Chart

This chart was quite useful for when I was thinking about lighting for my project. It helped me see what  kind of tones and hues you would expect from certain scenes and temperatures.

http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/colour/colour-temperature.html

EISENSTEINS MONTAGES Cont.

METRIC:

• Base of Eisenstein's theories
• length of scene is already fixed, therefore the shots are cut and arranged in order to express concepts of a piece

TONAL:

• Used to show an overbearing emotion

RHYTHMIC:

• Edited based on length of the clips
• Normally used to show a solemn or slower moving scene

OVERTONAL:

• combination or metric, rhythmic and tonal
• make audience feel what is happening more than just processing information

INTELLECTUAL:

• way of shown what you mean through a visual metaphor
• deepen the meaning of a scene

http://filmdirectors.co/sergei-eisenstein-filmmaking-techniques/

Art Class 26/01/11

Today we used acrylic paints to paint a still life that was positioned in front of us. We were mainly just experimenting with colour and so I took it as a great opportunity to see which colours work well together. I feel the red and yellows are extremely warm and work subtly together. Yet the purple of the light with the yellow background is striking, causing a lot of dramatic contrast.

Sound Experiment

I used a commercial I found online to add sound using Logic Pro. I decided to make all sounds realistic to the scene, which is why I chose sounds such as a door opening, dog barking, truck going past etc. I used sound effects that were available to me in Logic Pro, yet there are some I could record myself such as the door and footsteps on the gravel.

http://www.archive.org/details/Cigarette_Commercials_Marlboro_2-of-3

http://www.archive.org/details/Cigarette_Commercials_Marlboro_2-of-3

Art Class 19/01/12

In this class, we used charcoal to draw from a still life that has been placed in the centre of the room. There were many curved objects that had been set up, making it particularly hard to create movement, as charcoal tends to smudge and become quite messy. It is also hard to gradually create tone with this medium.