Audit of Skills

This second academic year of my media course, I expect to grow substantially in confidence with using movie making soft-wares.
With work to do with my blog post, I intend to keep on track and up to date with all my practical work transferring it onto my blogger account. With is I will have to analyse and evaluate my practical work as a reflection of understanding and gradually progress my current knowledge of Media studies.

My Strengths

• I am able to search on the internet information and evaluate the information by picking and deciding relevant details.
• I can make effective notes when reading and listening in my lessons.
• I understand the difference between an essay and report and can analyse them..
• I am able to adapt my writing style to suite the appropriate media audience.
• I can punctuate, use grammar and spelling correctly.
• I am able to express my views verbally and speak in front of a group of people. Above that also listen to and appreciate the views of others and work well as a member of a group or team.
• I can prepare, plan and deliver a presentation and use visual aids to support a presentation.
• I can use a variety of different computer software E.g. word, power-point, excel, access etc.

Having had the experience from last year I am now aware of what makes my work more affective. By this I mean the appropriateness of where and when to study (place and time). However I need to plan out strategies to help me manage my time which links with prioritizing my tasks and activities. And this will enable me to keep to my deadlines. Most of all I need to understand the importance of needing to reference my work and avoid plagiarism.
As well as being able to set myself goals and to identify them personally, I believe I am a good judge of what my strenghts are and what areas need to be developed. And so now I ordain to plan a revision timetable and keep to this schedule & with hope I get the best out of this course.

Trailer Making

Screen Recording from Temi Adeuya on Vimeo.

The Meeting - Outdoors

meeting 2 from Temi Adeuya on Vimeo.

The Crash

crash sequence from Temi Adeuya on Vimeo.

The Meeting - Indoors

School Meeting - Indoors from Temi Adeuya on Vimeo.

Montage Editing

What is the Kuleshov effect?

The Kuleshov effect is a shot of a single long closeup of an actor sitting still without expression or emotion. The essence of the Kuleshov effect is that an individual viewer is 'filling in the blanks', or 'connecting the dots'.
Commonly, according to the Kuleshov theory, the viewer doesn't realize the reaction is in their own mind, and assumes the actor is showing it.
From this experiment, the inventor of Kuleshov concluded that the editing of a film overrode all other aspects of film making, making them irrelevant. Moreover, this conclusion may or may not be true, however, this technique has been used brilliantly by filmmakers such as Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock.

Who is Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein?

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein produced the film editing effect. Other than being a screenwriter and editor, he was a pioneering soviet Russian film director and film theorist; often considered to be the "Father of Montage".
He was born on January 23rd 1898 in Riga, Latvia. And died on February 10th 1948 in Moscow, Russia.

What is montage?

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to consider space, time and information.

Types of montage:

• Metric montage                  
• Rhythmic montage             
• Tonal montage                   
• Time-transition montage 
• Mood montage
• Impact montage 

"montage can create meaning"

Rules of Composition

Headroom

Headroom is the distance between the top of a subjects head and the top of the frame.

This picture demonstrates the right amount of capacity needed and displays less of an empty space within the top of the frame.

This picture demonstrates the wrong amount of capacity and displays more of an empty space within the top of the frame.

Looking Room

Looking room is the negative space between the characters directional sight to the edge of the frame. 

This picture above demonstrates the right amount of reach needed and displays extra room between the distance of the direction seen upon to the edges of the frame.


The picture below demonstrates the wrong amount of reach and displays limited room between the distance of the direction seen upon to the edges of the frame.

Rules of thirds

Rules of thirds is a guideline that proposes an image divided into nine equal parts, by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines.

Dept of Field

Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects within the frame and therefore appears acceptably sharp dependent on the view.

And so the deepness and the shallowness of the focus depends on the size of the depth of field.


Aperture of camera

Aperture is the opening through which light travels.