Resources to accompany "The Pursuit of True Happiness" Challenge
1. Developing Interview Questions
2. Movie Genres:
The Difference Genre Makes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZxJli3VrQ
Genre Examples:
Documentary: 'Preserving One Square Inch of Silence'
Narration (note-this is an advertisement): 'Reconnect with Nature'
Genre Examples:
Documentary: 'Preserving One Square Inch of Silence'
Narration (note-this is an advertisement): 'Reconnect with Nature'
3.Storyline (need to know parts of video eg. setting the stage)
Storyboarding:
4. The Pitch
Parts of a video: Setting the stage
Filming Techniques
Sound Techniques
Editing
Background Resources
Film/Video Terms:
- Angle: A way to refer to the height and location from which the camera is shooting. Axis of action: An imaginary line running between two characters interacting in a scene.
- Cinematography: The art of using a camera for motion picture photography.
- Continuity: The consistency of characteristics of persons, objects, places, and events seen by the viewer.
- Continuity editing: A style of putting together video or film clips in such a way that events seem to happen in a chronological, logical sequence.
- Establishing shot: A shot that shows the setting in which a scene takes place. Usually a long (wide) shot.
- Focus: The sharpness of an image. On a camera lens, the point where all the light hitting the lens converges.
- Framing: The arrangement of space, people, and objects within the frame of the film or video. Shot: The basic building block of movies and other works that use moving images; the continuous footage that appears between cuts, fades, or other transitions in a film or video.
- Shot scale: A way to describe the distance between the camera and the objects and people being recorded, or the relative size of objects and people on the screen. (For example, close-up or wide are ways to describe the scale of a shot.)
- Transition: The shift from one piece of footage (one shot) to another.
- Treatment: A short synopsis of a media production’s story.
- Close-up (CU) – The camera will be close to the subject. Close-up panels might focus on a single person’s face, a license plate number, or something similar.
- Medium shot (MS) – The camera is an average distance away. Perhaps two people are eating a meal at a restaurant and the panel is centered on their table.
- Long shot (LS) – The camera is far away from the subject. Maybe you want to convey someone’s isolation by showing them walk through an empty field in the distance or show how small they are next to a skyscraper.
- Fade (fade in, fade out) – In a fade out, the subject of the shot slowly fades away until the image is completely black. For a fade in, a black image brightens until we can see what’s going on.
- Dissolve – Similar to fades, but instead of going to and from black, one image fades and slowly becomes an entirely different one.
- Jump cut – Generally speaking, each panel should logically connect to the next one in a storyboard, but sometimes you might want to intentionally create an abrupt transition to highlight a joke or convey something unexpected. These kinds of transitions are called jump cuts because they often make movements seem jerky and disconnected.
- Pan or tilt – These words indicates that the camera is turning left to right or up and down within the shot.
- Tracking – A tracking shot is one where the camera itself doesn’t turn, but it still moves to keep up with the action.
- POV (point of view) – This is a shot where you are seeing something from a character’s perspective, almost as though they were holding the camera.
- Reaction – Generally used when you have an image of someone simply listening to another person speak.
- Zoom – This tells the audience that the camera will be moving closer to the subject throughout the shot.
- Angles (high, low, level) – Level camera angles are the most common because they are even with the subject and indicate a neutral tone. A high angle can be used to make subjects look weak, small, or unimportant; low angles do the opposite.