Advanced Camera Movements-Blog Investigation

Crane Footage Slider Footage Drone Footage Wide Aperture Footage
I could use the crane footage technique to follow the character while they move which is the same with the slider technique except that they make the viewer feel two different ways. Also, I think the slider technique would look better for following the person's feet while the crane would look better following the person's entire body. The drone would be good for following people but even better for doing bird's eye views and getting nice scenic views. Lastly, the aperture is good for showing the importance of an object over the rest of the objects in a video or picture.

   Crane Footage-

2 Slider Footage-

   Drone Footage-

3 Wide Aperture footage (Bokeh effect to isolate subject)-

The way I'm gonna use each technique is when there is a certain feeling that's supposed to be felt or shown, I'll use it for that purpose. So if there's a calm/sad scene or feeling I would use the Bokeh effect. If there was an adventurous fast moving scene I would use the slider footage. But for the drone footage, I would use it for when I want to get an overhead shot on a part so you can see it from a birds eye angle and feel the hight and tension.

Genre

The presentations from class made me want to make a horror short. I think this genre is fun to do and you can get very creative with it. I think that out of the options horror would be the best short to make. I most prefer this genre because it is something that interests me in the sense of how it is made and the techniques that are used to make it. I have written scripts just for fun before that are 70 percent of the time horror because I enjoy making suspenseful situations. Good horror movies make me feel scared which the best way to make someone scared is suspense.

Horror films make me feel nervous like my stomach has turned inside out if I watch a good one and if I'm making it then it makes me feel excited to make it as nerve racking for the audience as possible. I think this says that I enjoy to be unpredictable and like suspenseful situations in movies. The directors I would most like to emulate are James Wan who directed the Saw movies, Alfred Hitchcock who directed Psycho and The Birds, and Jonathan Demme who directed The Silence of the Lambs. I think that the Saw movie's gore and the suspense within The Birds mixed in with the lunatic villain in Psycho and Silence of the Lambs would create a masterpiece. 

Select Your Genre

I am most interested in making a short film in crime. I want to make a film on this genre because I am very interested in crime. I watch a lot of cold case files and I do a lot of research and I believe making a short film on this will be a good chance to show what I have learned and show what is possible in short time films. This genre makes me feel as though I want to help. I want to help solve the crime and I want to help figure out the cause. I am a very empathic person, and watching those cold case file documentaries they make my empath self want to jump on the case and do as much research as I can. I already do research and try to find detectives around me that I could team up with and help the best I can. The director that I would look at for help and information, would be Alfred Hitchcock.

If crime gets taken up then I would love to do horror. Again, I do a lot of research on horror that has to do with the paranormal, and stuff like that. I watch videos on paranormal activity and I always get very interested. I am psychic too, in a way, and making a film on horror and something that can show what people like me, or others experience as a psychic, would be really cool and show how the true paranormal is and what it's like to experience it.

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Film Critique Review

An effective way I could improve the design and cinematography of my next film would be to add in sound effects. Another one would be to make sure our shots are good right when we take them instead of checking them later which we messed up a couple of times. I am good at writing scripts and to improve with that I could practice it in my free time which I actually do sometimes and I could take my time with it because sometimes I do it all in one night. I should do it over the coarse of a couple nights for the best possible script.

To improve upon my audio recording I could try different techniques in my free time. Editing and making titles, I could add in special effects depending on the film that I am creating and make the titles more noticeable and better looking. I would have to keep practicing with color grading. A lot of the best ways in my opinion to get better at these is to keep practicing.

To improve the performance and action on camera in future films I could memorize the lines and keep practicing them. Also, I could show an appropriate amount of emotion for the character I am being. I think the cliché practice makes perfect is how I can keep getting better at everything I listed above.

Critique Review Blog Post

Effective ways to improve design and cinematography: What we could do is use try-pods or a dolly that would be able to help us/the cinematographer keep a more steady and less tense shot(s). Ways to improve design could be, good pacing and shots that you wouldn't see in an everyday film. I feel that I'm good at being able to direct, and help not only the people working on the film, but the audience watching it, get all the feeling that is trying to be shown. 

Ideas for improving technical aspects such as audio recording, editing, titles, and color grading: One way to improve audio recording, is to set up the video and as you watch it, sit in a recording booth and speak along with the shots this way, you still have the film but your audio is clear and can be heard well. 

Ideas you gained on how to improve the performance of the action on camera in your future films: Some ideas I gained was too  move the camera in a way that adds feeling to the shot(s) that's being filmed. For example, if there's a horror movie being filmed, the cinematographer could move the camera in a shakey, uneasy manner. Or if there's a scene that's full of joy, the cinematographer could do light, smooth, bouncy movements that make the viewer calm and light. 

Inglorious Basterds Review

What's a Spaghetti Western?
-It's a movie about the American Old West made cheaply in Europe, typically by an Italian producer and director.
Why would Tarantino use this genre for a World War II movie?

-To show/make fun of how weak the Nazi's can be, and how horrible and cold hearted they can act towards other people who are different from them. 

List three ways Tarantino subverts the audience's expectations?

-It shows a lot of violence in a very short amount of time between each scene/chapter.

-He adds in random flashbacks or even adds in a part for a character, to make fun of them or to help you remember who they are.

-He also adds in plot twists when you would least expect it, throughout the film.

Inglorious Basterds Review

A Spaghetti Western is a movie about Old West that is not expensive to make and usually is made in Europe.
Tarantino used this genre to make a World War II movie because it was cheaper and it is easier to subvert the audience's expectations. Also, he wanted to make it very violent and make sure not many characters lived like a suicide mission.
Three ways Tarantino subverts the audience's expectations are only two people lived, the main villain helped to kill Hitler to save himself, and the nazi sniper and the jewish lady who owned the theatre who you thought might live and even have a relationship killed each other.