Storyboarding Camerawork: Camera Framing

Camera Framing

Day 10

 

Storyboarding Camerawork: Camera Angles

Introduction

Day 9

Hello my little Alakazam, the objective of today lesson was to learn about different camera angles director use in different scene. we learn that each camera angle has their own purpose some angle help communicate the story to the audience. The camera angles also have major impact on the audience emotions, some angles create sense of thrill, excitement and mystery different camera angle help the audience stay engaging in the production. 

 

Storyboarding Camerawork: Shot sizes

Shot Sizes

Day 8

Two reasons to why I believe shot sizes are important is because one it help the audience engage with the story and two it helps the audience decode some hidden message, whether it's a character emotion or surroundings 

Analyzing Genre in Film

 Bubble diagram

Day 7

Welcome back my little Alakazam, today our focus is all about genre. A genre is a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like. The genre of a movie is very important to both audiences and producers because some content within a specific genre might contradict with person's personal ideology or value. Understanding the genre helps the producers create a film where he or she can receive a balanced perspective from the audience, which helps avoid conflict. The four most common genres known by audiences are Action, romance, comedy, and drama. All of these genres contain something that is called a subgenre. Sub-genre is considered a smaller genre within a large genre these subgenres help add additional themes to the main genre, like action-adventure, fantasy adventure, historical, science fiction, survival adventure you name it, it's there. If a person were to favor fantasy over action they have the option for fantasy adventure over action adventure. One of the film genres I lovvvvvvvve to watch is adventure I fell in love with that genre ever since I was really young starting with Dora to Barbie to Sophia to Pokémon all the way to Jumanji, I believe that the best childhood transition I might have I love the mystery the challenge. The adventure genre keeps the audience engaged in the character's adventure to the point where you start to predict or two feel like you want to jump inside the TV and join them.

the purpose of this assignment is to look at the mise en scene elements within the genre of films. The significance of iconography and narrative themes, and their connection to narrative themes.

l used a bubble diagram to show what kind of mise en scene element that identify the genre of a movie is an adventurous movie. A bubble diagram is a visual tool that allows me to connect my thought process, it helps me demonstrate the foundation and some step process that led to the end result.

Narrative themes for this type of genre is exploration and survival where one tries to overcome nature, enemies. It helps direct the story while enhancing the plot. 

 

Analyzing Mise en scene

 He's All That

Day 6

Greeting my little Alakazam for this lesson, we learn about mise en scene and the easiest and most understood way to understand this term is that it is what is being shown in a frame. For instance, when you take a picture everything you can see in the small square or rectangle is mise en scene that you can't they are not. So, for this assignment my team and I picked one of our favorite movies well at least one that we both have watched and enjoyed, we were assigned to examine the first 10 minutes of the film or what you might know as a preview. The movie we picked was " He's All That," the genre of the movie is teen romantic comedy between two characters. Addison Rae who plays Padgett Sawyer and Tanner Buchanan who plays Cameron Kweller.

In the movie opening, Padgett was showcased as a young media influencer teenager. In a room all bring and pink with a lot of make-up skin care products on her desk. The first thing she did when she got up was get ready and greet her fans. After some time when she exits her room, her house compared to her room was very different instead it was small and blue with less positive energy. Just like that, she was greeted by her tired mother who seemed to have late-night work. They share their beautiful moment as she leaves to meet her friend at her usual pick-up spot. However, Padgett lied and said she was in the elevator when she was running to meet them in front of a tall building. Pick her up as they were headed to Padgett's boyfriend's recording place. He was another famous influencer but a singer while Padget did makeup and skin care.

Just like that the camera shift to Cameron who seem to be more nonchalant, critical and less positive than Padgett. Cameron has a younger sister that goes to the same high school. Then scene change to the school "Cali High" they show lot of stereotypes of high schooler the friend groups the famous kids and loners. And there we meet what seem to be Cameron close friend. Cameron also seems to enjoy embarrassing her sister.

Once again, the scene changes to Padgett's point of view when she gets to where her boyfriend is filming his music. She brought his favorite treats for him, and she wanted to share them with her social media, so she asked her friend to record her live on her phone. However, when she opens the door to the production van and finds him cheating on her. That is when things start spicing up because now Padgett is all emotional and mad and sad, she starts throwing the desert at him as she starts tearing up. But she forgot an important detail she was still live and being recorded and just like BOOM black screen. 

 

Table 

Section A

General Information of Film
Film Title: He’s all that	Media Institution Name: Neflix
Film Studio (s): Miramax	Director: Mark waters
Year released: 08-21-2021	Genre and sub-genres: Comedy, romance
Cost of production (Budget)	Box Office: None
A young teenager girl, Padgett a famous beauty influencer who experience a major breakup who put her scholarship at risk and made her lost all her fan. She constantly experiences peer pressure from her fan and surrounding, to the point where she had to lie to her friend about where she lives.

Section B

Setting

Definition:

The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place

The first 10 minute of the movie all that setting took place in Padgett house where her room was fully decorate and where she usually make her video to post on her social media

Message: The way the room was decorate introduce the audience that the movie genre might

revolve around teenager and media influence base on the decoration

Location: Los Angeles California

Time Period: Early 2020s Generation Z

Time of Day: December 2020

Culture/moral values of the setting: Social identity and social class

Job title: teenagers and social media influencer.

Acting

Definition:

The art or practice of representing a character on a stage or before cameras.

The acting: is peer pressure and media influence and upbeat

Messages: she have to act in a way that is seems under peer pressure since most fans are

know to be very critical, Padgett maintaining positive attitude at all time showing confidence.

Atmosphere: upbeat and lively mostly positive

Character portrayed: media influencer, optimistic

Character appearance: Female, long brown hair, average height, slender athletic build.

Character actions: In every positive seem moment Rae always open her TikTok to record to share with her fans for like and that were her income come from

Facial expressions and body language: smiling most of the time, with a confident aura

Voice quality/ tone: Positive tone with high pitches that create an enthusiastic tone

Job title: Actress

Set Design: Décor and Props

Definition

Specialized field in film production that focuses on creating the physical environment in which movie unfolds

Set design (décor

Message: To emphasize on her media, influence the light in her room are usually owned by people who record especially on TikTok which also connect to the culture of generation Z.

Atmosphere: Up-beat, Lively at most

Décor: Very light pink wall fluffy bed sheets modern decoration in pink

Props: her phone, ring light, makeup tools, beauty product

Job title: art department

Costumes, Hair and Make-up

Definition:

The clothing and accessories worn by actors in a film.

The costume is cute colorful dress expensive glittering shoes pink

The hair and make-up is wavy long. Dark brown with highlights

Message: base on her costume and the color of choice I can tell her favorite color and aesthetic. For example, Rae shoes was pink bold and glittery this expresses her confidence side and trendy.

Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: Comfortable and rich teen appearance

Costumes: Are casual cute with soft color

Hair: The hair is wavy long brown with highlights and

Make-up: Natural yet confident

Job title: makeup artist

Lighting

Definition

direction, quality, source, or color of light

The lighting use are soft and bright

Message: They used soft and bright lighting to help emphasize the genre of the movie bein a teen romance movie

Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: lively

Light Direction: Mostly front

Light Source: Sceen, Ringlight and outdoor

Light Quality: High/bright

Job title: cinemagrpapher

Composition

Definition

How the elements on screen (actors’ scenery props ect.) Appear in respect to each other and within the frame itself.

The composition is medium shot and close up

Message: To focus on her face, she a makeup or skin care influencer. Help the audience get a better close picture of Padgett expression and emotion

Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: upbeat

Blocking in the frame: Padgett mostly been place in the center of the frame

Framing Balance: When Padgett surround with her friend group the camera mainly focuses on her while still recognizing her friends

Depth of Field: Shallow when Padgett talk with her fans

Focus: Contrast between two-character Padgett all bright and positive. Cameron all nonchalant, critical and less positive

Job title: Director of photography

Color

Definition:

Symbolism of color refers to the use of specific colors to represent ideas, emotions, and themes in film.

The color is pink Base on the set design I can tell the character favorite colors

Message: She nice she loveable she’s sweet. Pink also represents her femininity side.

Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: Sweet

Dominant Colors: pastel pink and blue

Meanings of colors: They showcase pink and blue a lot because the genre off the movie is teen romance representing it youthfulness

Job title: production design, art director

Critical Reflection   

While creating these tables, I got to learn some terms and I was able to find examples from a movie. Together this activity helped me analyze the movie better. Since I already watched this movie already, I could tell that the thing I noticed the second time during this analysis was much bigger than what I first saw. For example, I just saw the camera shifting I didn't know it was purposely comparing Cameron to Padgett if I couldn't get that you better believe I didn't know the name for it either.

One media application i use the most is word I believe because of my years' experience i can say that I'm close to an expert at this point. For this activity I had watch the film opening multiple time to capture the close detail. I also find some information using google.

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