For this exercise I decided to analyse a shot from my favourite recent film, Parasite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7JPNXt_oqM. In this scene the family is trying to clean up the mess they have made after taking advantage of the Park family’s wonderful home while they are away.  …

Watching “The Fire from Within” (1963) shot in comparison to the shot from Gossip Girl was such a huge difference. My first thoughts of the Fire from Within shot was that it would have been a nightmare to have filmed that shot. If they had…

In class number 3 we talked about the focus puller among other jobs that are on a film set. I have only worked on small film sets in the past, so I actually was unaware that there is a person with the specific job of…

What is a shot, anyway? To be honest, I have worked on a couple of films sets now and obviously studied this area for about 3 years now and haven’t properly thought about what the definition of a shot is. I believe I have used…

From my understanding of the studio description for this class we are investigating and researching how a scene can be covered. In particular a scene in a fictional piece. I think what seems particularly interesting about this concept is that the coverage of the scene,…

CLASS 1 This week in the first class in small groups we did live performances of the scripts we were given. I thought this was a very clever way to straight way to get to the point of what coverage is in fiction cinema. I…