Classwork

 Here is a classwork we were assigned to do individually where we learnt about camera angles and shots, mise en scene, different sounds, and edits. 

CAMERA

Camera angles/shots are different ways of using the position and angles of a camera to convey emotions and tell a story. 

Heres a video of about camera angles that my teacher had suggested me to watch in my freetime:

Camera Angles

Here are materials from my teacher's presentation that I refer back to for a better understand of my projects.

Camera Movements

Here's a table my teacher made to help me gain a better understanding of camera movements.

Fixed	Camera remains static	Calm, peace, normal
Push in	Camera moves slowly toward subject	Brings the audience closer, more involved, getting more serious.
Pull out	Camera moves slowly away from subject	Takes audience away from the action, leaving a character. Detaching from subject
Pan	Side to side, camera fixed	Reveal information, mirrors natural head movement of the audience.
Tilt	Up and down, camera fixed	Same as pan, just a different direction
Dolly	Camera moves around freely	More immersive, we are moving inside the subjects world, we feel part of the action
Tracking	Camera moves around on tracks	Similar to dolly, but smoother.
Crane		Reveals the epic size of the setting, landscape.
Handheld	Camera is shakey	Very natural, immersive. High energy
Zoom	Zoom	Brings audience closer to budget. Draws our attention to something.

Here's a video I made with a friend to explore and test out different camera angles and movements:

MIS-EN-SCENE

Here's a slide that my teacher has made to help me learn different terminologies of mise-en-scene:

Visual examples of each MES (Credit to Kristine blog post):

Here is a video a friend gave me to gain a better understanding of mis-en-scene:

Here is a video I watched that helped me understand MES better through movie analysis:

SOUND

Here is a table my teacher put in a presentation to help me understand sound terminologies:

	Description	Effect
Diegetic sound	Sound that can be heard by the characters within the media text.	Add a sense of realism. Reveal information to characters (and then audience)
Non diegetic sound	Sound that can only be heard by the audience.	Enhance meaning, create an emotional response in the audience
Trans diegetic sound	Sound that transitions from one to the other.	Creates a link between the audience and the world. More immersive

Here is a video I watched online to gain a further knowledge of sounds:

Here is a table my teacher had gather to help me understand better of non-diegetic tones:

	Description	Effect
Melodic	Positive and pleasing connotations	Enhances a positive scene. Create positive emotions in the audience.
Discordant	Harsh and unpleasant connotations.	Enhance negative scenes.  Create suspense, tension, anxiety
Contrapuntal	Has an opposite tone to the on-screen visuals.	Adds deeper meaning to scenes. Insight into the character's thoughts. Maybe they seek pleasure in doing bad things.

Here are some videos examples that I've watched online to helped me gain a futher understanding of non-diegetic tones:

Melodic Example:

Discordant Example:

Contrapuntal Example:

EDITING

Here are some terminologies my teacher has given out:

 

Continuity Editing	Non continuity editing
Straight cut (cut) Eyeline match  Shot /reverse shot Cutaway / Insert  *Match cut	Cross cut (parallel cut) Flash back Flash forward Jump cut  *Match cut

STORYBOARD

Here is a storyboard that my teacher had made me with different layouts and descriptions to gave me a better understanding of creating my own storyboard:

Here is my first storyboard I did for my advertisement project:

Self-Reflection:

I've managed to complete this classwork on time, despite the fact that I had to rush everything in at the last second, this gotta be one of the most exhausting blogwork that I've done. To be honest, I kinda lost track with this classwork as I'm too busy on completing multiple tasks in the group for the project. So as soon as I had spare time, I decide to start this blogwork ASAP and not to postpone it any longer as it would be soon graded. I'm actually satisfied with how I did in this blogwork since I've managed to gather up crucial information that I've took from my teachers blog to develop a further understanding about cameras, MES, sound, edits, and storyboards. I will further apply and implement this knowledge that I've recapped to create a better concepts on the music video project.