reflection1:
For my exercise 3, several problems were found during my editing process. The first is that some shots cannot be connected. For example, when the video is 00:30, the actors’ actions are inconsistent. This is the problem that I forgot to pay attention to the direction the actors turn their heads when shooting. Another problem is that one lens is out of focus. I treated this segment as a short complete movie. So I used a lot of the bits of black punctuation. So the black punctuation marks at the beginning serve as the basis for the plot.I also added background music at the end. When I saw this script. The plot I actually envisioned was done indoors. The actor is frustrated by checking the email and discovering that there is no email he wants to receive. Then he got up and walked to the window and looked out to the street. When he heard the sound of a new mail message, he ran to the computer to check it. Then the expression gradually became happy. Although the form is similar. But I’m not sure if shooting like this is a script change.However, in this filming, I did not consider the process of filming the actors looking for letters. I ignored this link. What I think is very simple. The letter appeared on the table because his family or roommate helped him take it out of the mailbox and take it home. So he can easily find this letter when he goes home. Through this question, I found that I can make some innovations in many shooting details. I hope I can pay more attention to details when I shoot next time. I have to pay attention to whether there are extra items on the screen, such as the wires of lights, and whether the connection of each lens is coherent. These are my reflections on this shoot.
reflection2
For this week’s class, I was very impressed with a movie clip. Just two people came out of the coffee shop. Woman is walking across the road, and man is shining shoes. But when the woman crossed the road, she was stopped by the police and taken away. This clip is almost unedited for me. The continuity of the shots is done directly. This was shot with a crane. I think the best thing about this shooting technique is that it can make a movie come alive.If this clip is shot with a fixed camera, the effect may be different. The feeling of watching will be relatively plain and ordinary. Men will not express the tension when he see a woman being taken away.When the police car drove away, the camera passed over the police car and then came to the man. The camera moves quickly. I think this kind of transition can express a man’s nervousness and anxiety about this matter. If it is a fixed-camera shooting, I can only think of using editing to switch between mid-range, close-up and close-up. So this one-shot shooting method is sometimes easier to make the plot vivid than fixed-camera shooting. The same shooting technique used in this movie is about a woman who stole a key. In the beginning, the crane was filmed from upstairs. It descended from the wide shot upstairs to the woman’s hand, turning into a close-up. The whole process can highlight the key to this key. Let the audience know what is important.Through these two films, let us know better that there are some scenes choosing the right lens to make the film more perfect. It can also make important pointsThis is my reflection on this movie.
Reflection 3
The requirements and skills of the screen actor. The value and potential of gestures and actions free, or independent, of speech and dialogue. How is walking, running, swimming, driving, smoking, listening, even thinking, shown on screen.I remember the movie clip I saw in class was a man swimming in a swimming pool. The content of the filming is only the process of shooting him swimming. This is a fragment without a storyline, what is needed is the performance details of the actors. For example, some detailed movements of his hands when on the shore.There is also a movie clip of a group of people stealing things from train stations and trains in partnership. There was no communication during the whole process, but many shots used close up to shoot their hands-when they were stealing things. And their demeanor. You won’t feel bored after watching the clips. The audience will be attracted by their performance. This will advance the storyline.
Reflection 4
Robin sent us a script in class. Let’s choose a scene content to analyze-which equipment to use, the location of the camera, and how to shoot. My team members all chose the second scene. The reason is that the dialogue part is very simple to shoot. I think it makes sense. I didn’t consider this factor at all before that. I wanted to choose scene one at the time.I will not consider this when choosing a scene. I just choose which scene I will have a sense of the picture first. So I wanted to choose scene one. For the first scene I want to choose, I will use dolly. I like shooting clips without dialogue. Because then I can try many different shooting angles.Like this“Juliette picks up the book that Ella had laid down horizontally. Ella notices this and watches her apprehensively, looking like she might be about to say something.”This place I want to use the zoom format to shoot. The book is in front of Ella, the book is close to the camera. At first the camera focused on the book. When Juliette picked up the book, the process of picking up the book was like a transition. When the book was taken away, the camera focused on Ella’s face. I will use dolly to move the camera forward at the beginning. The camera stopped moving when it focused on Ella’s face. I don’t think the success rate of shooting in this scene is very high. Because you need to try again and again. It is impossible to follow the focus successfully at once. There is also the problem of the distance between the book and Ella and the angle of the camera. What I think is that the camera and the book are at the same height, and then look up slightly to shoot. In this way, Ella’s position is a little higher than the book.This may not be a reflection. I just wrote down my thoughts on this script. I will try to shoot this if I have the opportunity.
Reflection 5
Through some film fragments I saw in class, I became interested in first-perspective shooting. I know this class is not about first-person shoot For example, a person escapes from a car. The process of escaping, as well as a series of things that happened when he got into a stranger’s car, were all shot from a first-person perspective. This kind of shooting gives the audience a strong immersive .The feature of this kind of shooting is camera=audience, and all the content that takes place in front of the camera is directly aimed at the audience. The audience stood at the point of the character in the film and watched what happened. Everything the character experiences is directly felt by the audience.Just like the movie clips watched in class, when this person gets in a stranger’s car, chats with the driver, and looks down at his shoes. These things intuitively make the audience feel what the character does after getting on the car. It’s like what the audience is doing right now.
Perhaps because of the strong immersive, I always felt that when I switched to first-person shoot, there would always be a horrible storyline next. Because this shooting method can express feelings most directly. But I watched the clips of “GOODFELLAS”, and I found that first-person shoo can also be easy and humorous. The combination of first-person shoot and voice over creates a relaxed atmosphere. Introduce everyone you see in this shooting format. This form is special.
In conclusion, the shooting methods of these two movie clips are different. Although the first one was shot with a first-person perspective, it was hand held. It can be seen from the shaking lens. But also because of the shaking off the camera can better express the rush of the actor’s escape at that time. The second is the image taken with the stabilizer. The same shoot from the first person perspective, the second one is more stable.The above is my reflection on this first-person perspective
Reflection 6
For this week’s presentation, I think my classmates’ presentations are very good. Everyone’s research projects are very interesting. What impressed me the most was Xinyi Qiu’s topic. Her topic is about Shooting Styles of Directors From Different Countries. She chose two clips from two movies, one is from In the Mood for Love which is directed by Wong Kar-wai, another is from The Terminal which is directed by Steven Spielberg. I am personally very interested in Wong Kar Wai’s movies. My topic is also to analyze his movies. I really like his shooting style. Xinyi Qiu’s presentation is very complete and detailed. She researches around these aspects-the composition, types of camera shots, angle shots, camera movement, and so on. So as to reflect the expression of the two directors’ different styles of emotional expression in shooting.
I think that the two directors shoot the same subject, but the reason for shooting in different styles has a lot to do with Chinese and Western cultures. In the Mood for Love which is directed by Wong Kar-wai, the costumes and props of that period are different from the present. Not to mention the contrast with Western culture. In addition, Wong Kar-wai’s shooting methods are very special, he usually likes to use long shots to express the atmosphere. There are close-ups in the composition, and there are a lot of side-shots of the actors. In normal shooting, everyone will focus on the protagonist, and switch between mid-shot and close-up shots. But Wong Kar-wai’s filming will not take this form.So his shoot style is very different from Steven Spielberg. It’s like his emotional expression is expressed through small things, and Steven Spielberg is expressed from big things.
Overall, Xinyi Qiu’s presentation really appealed to me. She mentioned every point.