Detailed Learning

From the beginnning of the course I have gained a good understanding on camera shots, editing, sound , lighting etc. In all my lessons I have learnt something new. In my media lessons , I have watched many different clips from different films such as The Matrix and Hard Candy. When watching clips from these films it helped me to have a better understanding about camera shots.

Watching clips of this film (Hard Candy) helped me remember different camera shots and understand the meaning behind each shot.

When learning about sound. Our teacher showed us clips on youtube of examples of digetic and non digetic sound. I understand that Non-digetic sound is sound that is not actually there and digetic sound is sound that is in the scene. Non-digetic sound can be for example sounds that is made and then added on to a film. Digetic sound could be a character talking in the film

Non digetic sounds

Introduction

Hello, My name is Sacklay. I am studying Media as one of my A-levels at Haringey sixth form Centre.So far I have found my media lessons interesting.Having studying this course for 6 weeks I have a brief understanding on the main key concepts of making a film, The main concepts I have learnt about are Mise-en-scene,Camera Shots, Editing and Sound.

Mise-en-scene means everything that is in the scene for example props,makeup, costumes, lighting, decor etc.

Camera shots and movements is the choice you choose to shoot your film for example Close up shots and point of view shots. It also shows the audience what type of message you are trying to send, for example if I wanted to shoot a scene of a person writing a letter but I wanted the person typing the letter to be a mystery, the camera would just focus on the persons hands and the keyboard and it will leave a mystery of who's typing.

When making a film, they may be errors, when these are corrected this is called editing. Editing can include adding and taking away things in the scene such as sound. An editor may decide that they want to add music to a particular scene this is done by editing. Editing is basically making changes.

There are two different types of sound tese are digetic sound and non-diegetic sound.Diegetic sound is sound in the scene which is real for example voices of characters and sounds made by objects in the scene.It is the actual sound in the scene. Non-diegetic sound is commentary sound, for example a comedy film with laughing effects is non-diegetic.

During my media course I hope to produce an interesting horror film because I really enjoy watching horrors and I wonder what it would be like actually making one of my own.