Ideas I have jotted down

During the bridge, have Joana on green screen falling.

When 808 hits have people around her moving slowly, but she's moving in normal speed
Maybe shoot everything at 24 fps but have her move normally and everyone else slowly
Or shoot it twice(locked off camera, 24 fps) have her walking r whatever,  then shoot again at 60i for the extras to be in slow motion

Maybe starts with hitting water

Johanna in a run down sort of apartment with very dark sort of lighting

"Ohh" bvs will have separate shot intercut ting with the rest

Maybe a girls (s) face in a darkroom sort of of vaccum

In barlucca jo is on a piano during a rave when bass gets in she stands in the middle of club at high above this world as confetti falls and then goes back up in slow motion as she continues in normal movement and everyone else is in slow mo (including girl who looks unsure of herself)

Party life isn't the answer
The real you comes from you and not from what others think, self empowerment

Starts with pretty girl in club looking for attention in slow mo crowd of people in barluc

Bridge-
Girl goes to bathroom, dolly back and see Joana in mirror, camera turns slowly to jo as she then goes into green screen falling
So girl takes off make up at her home, 808 jump - splashing face with water.
Girl shown to be putting n make up

New blog(Patrick semester 2)

For my music video I will be using Johana Buchanan fly and I am currently working on it

What I learned cinematography wise

I found that my understanding of cinematography was limited up until the horror genre project where we had a discussion that really cleared things up for me and made me understand the importance of foreground which you'll hopefully notice in my project. And use of wide lenses and long lenses as there is no lens to fit all. Which I was guilty of doing, up until I had acces to the F3 which gave me a new perspective and really allowed me to spread my wings in that department as I got to utilize the 10 mm I believe and that was perfect for some of the shots I had envisioned. I cannot wait to do the music video next semester an I feel more confident in my ability. Oh and I found that blue lighting was way cooler for what I wanted to shoot for my horror film so I had to use that even though I did not specify it in my pre production.

reflections on filming

When I went in to film at Readings I was  a little bit worried as Ia felt as though I wasn't prepared enough for it. What I found was that I had actually over planned and so my schedule was shortened down, because I was flying through every shot and really understood what I wanted to capture and didn't have to stop and deliberate on what I was going to do at just about any point. We ended up finishing at the scheduled time of 2am, but only because I decided to take my time. I had my favorite crew members aside from AEJUN SETHU of course, in Lana, Corey and Dan who were absolutely fantastic and did their job perfectly and my actress Katherine was a revelation as she fully engrossed herself into the role and really didn't shy away from any of the scenes involving her to be some what out of her comforts zone and hopefully she will she people coming to her for acting jobs in the enar future. I got to use the F3 (with expressed permission and supervision of Ash Bartlett) which was great as I found the range of lenses was key in allowing me to capture the close up shots and generally capture the best image possible. If I was able to redo the filming I would only change and maybe add a few more shots in the ending sequence as I scheduled alot of shots, but maybe not the right ones and only due to the fact that I had no real access to the cinema until the night of shooting. Again, my crew was fantastic and I wouldnt have been able to complete the project without them.

Script outline

Cinematography script outline.

Inside reading cinemas

·    Kat serves the last customer as usual. Supervisor tells her he will be upstairs.

·    Kat checks each cinema, all the people are inside enjoying the movies.

·    Kat goes back to the candy bar and the popcorn machine is turned on and popping.

·    Kat hadn’t turned it on so turned it off as she is attempting to close down and clean everything.

·    Kat hears some kind of whispering outside the door and goes to check it out.

·    When she is outside she hears loud footsteps upstairs and goes upstairs to check it out.

·    When upstairs she cannot find the supervisor and uses the light from her phone to look around as the lights are out.

·    Kat sees something move and drops her phone and sprints down stairs.

·    Kat goes to cinema three to ask for help, but no one is there and there is no film on so she checks all the cinemas all with the same result.

·    Kat, who is terrified now goes to call the police, but the phone line has been cut and her phone is upstairs and she is to terrified to go back upstairs.

·    Kat goes to the door to get out of the theatre, but cannot be unlocked, so she screams to the outside looking for help, but no one is there either and she sees a reflection in the glass behind her of a scary face.

·    Terrified, Kat runs back to the candy bar and locks herself behind the door, which is code locked.

·    Kat, who is pressing herself against the door, feels it being pushed and trying to be opened to no avail until it starts unlocking the code and unlocks the door.

·    Kat tries to keep it closed and finally closes it and sticks a wedge at the bottom of the door.

·    Kat then hears the thing walk around and attempt to climb over the candy bar to get to her so she closes the door to the candy bar to lock herself in the stock room.

·    The sounds stop after a while and kat grabs a craft knife and decide to head for one of the other exits in the cinema.

·    Kat bursts the door open and runs to cinema three which is pitch black(we can see) and runs to the exit door, but it is also locked.

·    Backed into a corner, kat has no choice but to hide under a seat.

·    As kat is hiding in the seats, all we see is her face, and we see her see something come towards her and the end.

horror genre(cinematography exersize and assignment)

lighting idea for music video and horror genre shoot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly930bOK-eU
So I have been thinking about what Im going to do for my cinematography assignment and I would like to do a horror film inside a movie theatre. The concept coming from watching poltergeist in reading cinemas and thinking about how scary it would be if there was a ghost or something stopping the employees from leaving. The script is being realized today with the help of sean Mcgifford who I may ask to direct it for me.

Now onto the exercise which is also a horror. Ive done my own research and to answer your question in how I will re do my short film. Using dead space to create a sense of something following. The location will be queens park at night, maybe try to emphasize the gloominess with fog by the lights. Maybe have him walking through and shooting the pov of villain more sparsely.

In other news I'm hearing the song that I will use to shoot my music video with at the end of the year and was hoping to get more info on what options we will have( keep in mind the song "fly" by Joana Buchannon)
Planning the shots already.
Going to explore the options in green screening someone falling. Shooting a subject in 24 fps and extras in backround in 60 i and putting them together... more soon

18th of may

What comes first:
Shooting script, shot list, story boards, camera and light schematics.
It's a trick question it depends on director.
No hard and fast rules all depends on director and dop.
Some people will color code different shots in a shooting script.
We've all seen story boards ( again no hard and fast rules about how to story board)
Story boards are good for getting funding. Patrick got funding for a short film because of his story boards. Very effective way of communicating ideas to your crew. Some artist will draw story boards outside of the box, literally and or figuratively. 
What could some draw backs Be?  "Takes a whole lot of fucking time" brogan "it's not realistic to achieve"-Corey.
Sometimes things can't be realistically achieved on set to what you can do on story boards (nothing was eventuating in reality)
Action, animation, and cgi will always need story boards in big budget films in Hollywood.  In Hollywood they won't story board the drama, but will definitely story board for action.

18 of may

So we have been given two tasks to complete over the next two weeks.
1. Make a 2.15-5 minute long horror scene/ short film that use all Cinematography techniques associated with the horror genre.
2. Make a factual news report.

The horror genre task is going to be fun, I'm thinking about potentially redoing my first ever short film back in high school which was a horror. Obviously I'm going to give it a better treatment, but I will potentially keep the song from 28 days later,because it's such perfect music.

The factual news report is going to be done by me on teusday. The news report so far is showing us how to tell a story with cinematography ad not just cover everything

High key lighting vs low key lighting

High key lighting is considered happy in terms of the mood set in the scene as apposed to low key lighting which attempts to set a darker and more ambiguous and threatening mood.

example #1 joker and Harvey Dent scene in dark knight (low key/high key) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsLYoqjgl_Y
this shows us how using minimalistic lighting and preferably just a shimmer of natural light changes the mood. The mood of Joker and Harvey dent is sinister at heart and puts the viewer in a state of anxiousness.
On the other hand. The next scene is THE jOKER bowing up a building in his typical chaotic fun loving, blowing up mentality which utter destruction following and creates a contrast. The contrast comes in when you realise that the joker is darker in his intentions rather than his actions in this part of the movie as opposed to when his actions were darker than his intentions earlier in the film.

Example #2 alien (low key) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDRLtgr2T9E
In this example the soldiers are exploring the area and stumble upon something that has no explanation. The set is scary and ambiguous, but the lighting makes it feel cut off from the rest of the world and a sense of entrapment that creates the threatening sense that you feel.

example #2 limitless(high key effect as apposed to low key) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP-ZwmCPBAs
In limitless, aspiring writer who has writers block gets given a pill that "unlocks" the other 80% of his brain. This higher intelligence is emphasised by the high key lighting compared to the "dull" lighting shown when he is melancholic and unappy. The transition is quite shocking and visually appealing to have such a bright lit scene. The high key lighting also sets a happy go lucky and almost positive and able to do anything in a world with high key lighting.


iN CONCLUSION. To make a scene happy-high key lighting. To make a scene threatening-low key
The ultimate use is the contrast between one scene and another to make the feeling of one scene seem better or worse to suit the feeling of the characters.

high key

past two weeks.

Have been meaning to make a new blog for the past two weeks, but haven't had internet at home to achieve this.
First I will recap what happened most recently. The casting call went great and I managed to learn a lot about directing people and making them feel comfortable in awkward situations, more specifically how to get the best out of 6-12 year old children because we had quite a few come through and they had a lack of reading ability so i had to be quite creative. Things like being really specific about the context and keeping it simple in a way that sort of manipulates them into doing what you want them to do. For instance getting them to read a script without them having to worry about actually having to "act" and giving them situations they may have faced in real life and get them to go "crazy" to get overemphasis and get them out of their shell. The others were great fun and I got to put them through some what of torture by giving them an abstract topic and if they can sing make them make a song out of it or just plain convince me of things.
What I learned that was quite valuable and usable in on set directing is putting yourself in their shoes and act with them to make the actor feel like their not alone, which alloys them to go out of their shell and really "act"

The week before in cinematography we were given a sheet that contained a criteria we needed to fill with a camera and had to keep the same frame and increase the lens and change the aperture, nd filters, and gain to get specific affects. I really found that the longest lens with half decent light and a half open aperture and no gain looks fantastic. The exercise refreshed my memory of what you can do with cannon cameras and Corey learnt how to use a cannon for the first time and obviously picked it up very quickly.