PRACTICE PRODUCTIONS including PRELIM

What we learned and did:

We applied numerous shot types and angles, such as: 

• Close up
• Extreme Close up
• Long shot
• Two shot
• Three shot
• Group shot
• High angle
• Low angle
• Birds eye view
• Worms eye view
• Over the shoulder
• Panning
• Tracking shot
• Establishing shot
• and more...
  

 We applied many theories, such as:

• Propp (7 Archetypes)
  
• hero
  
• villain
• dispatcher
  
• helper
  
• false hero
  
• prize/princess
  
• donor
• Todarov (Narrative Structure)
  
• equilibrium
• disequilibrium
• realization of disequilibrium
• attempt to repair equilibrium
• new equilibrium
  
• Levi-Strauss (Binary Opposition)
  
• Barthes (Narrative Enigma)

 what I learned:

I learned a lot about how shot are taken, for example, I learned how important mise-en-scene is, there is very little mise-en-scene in the recordings we did, making it lose a lot of verisimilitude. I also learned that it would be smart to use external methods of recording audio, because cameras don't hear the same audio as we do, which made it a lot tougher than I had expected to level the audio. I learned a lot about how to use a camera, and the differences between mono-pod and hand held recording. I learned how to connote what is occurring to the extent that the audience will understand, but without simply denoting it. I learned that it takes longer to record than I had previously expected. I also learned that shot variation is easier with multiple cameras, because that way you can record from different angles, and don't have one single take for each scene, but several from different angles, allowing for continuity editing, without only showing the single take recorded.

What I will change for the final production:

 I will focus more on the mise-en-scene, and in doing so create verisimilitude, I will use other methods to get the audio necessary, so that it seems like its could be happening right in front of the viewer like most successful feature films do. I will use more shot types and follow the 180 degree rule, and use shot reverse shot. I will record using more takes and shots and redoing scenes to ensure I create the preferred reading I intend to.

 Practice Productions: 

Here we were simply trying out angles and shot types:

Here we made a small fil trying out and using those angles and shots that we had just learned: