Genre

This lesson was about genre and genre theory which is a smaller part of the theory structuralism. For one part we had to write down the iconography of a western movie. Then in pairs we had to make a poster for a made up movie without giving a hint as to what the genre is. below is the poster. We also had to make of list of every genre that we knew as a group

This is the poster for our movie "D.I" we decided to go as vague as possible for when it came to the making of it we decided that a human eye would be the best and give an acronym title. However when it came to group assessment, many guessed that it was a science fiction movie as the poster looks pretty similar to the trailer of the movie "A Requiem for a dream" Which I personally agreed with, also the colour which was a steel blue helped people assume it was a Sci-fi. However  if you would just wash out the colours and change the title you could easily pass this poster off as a horror film.

We were asked a final question based on two different quotes which basically said whether or not the ideology of genre is a good or bad thing. Well I personally believe that genre is a good thing and is something we need to separate one from another. Without genre there wouldn't be a way to connect with audiences and I believe that it is not a barrier with the use of cross genres it makes experimentation possible  

Pre-production (including sound)

This is the synopsis for our corporate video the Royal Hotel in Southend on Sea.

The video opens of shots around Southend before coming to establishing shots of the hotel itself. There are interior shots of the bar room itself, close ups of different areas before panning around the bar, there s a fade before showing an establishing shot of the Royal hotel at night and shots of an event that took place in the basement getting close ups of the DJ then the video cuts to the candle light event before finishing with contact information for the hotel.

Sound

Sound is very important in any production on any scale, considering the fact that one of the main selling points of our clients is many different music events they host sound is going to be crucial. We are going to be filming an event called "The Candle Light Event" which is on every Sunday at the Royal Hotel, the event is an open mic event where people go and perform for the evening, making sure this is recorded properly and and professionally is important. For our corporate video we used a  Zoom H1 recorded which is a nice piece of equipment which will be the main recorder for all of our audio. It is a directional microphone which I have worked with before and it does record very crisp audio however there are some drawbacks with it, for once to get the most use of the Zoom you are going to have to keep it stationary as you would be able to hear noises such as you are moving it also you are going to have to keep it fairly close to the action otherwise it won't pick it up although if you just leave it in a solitary position you're not going to have much of an issue.

Camera Projection

In this lesson we used After Effects to create a landscape made entirely of 2D layers however using 3D space we give the effect that this is all in the third dimension with the use of Camera Projection. We started off by opening up After effects and then importing the following layers into the software, we used PNG files which are different from other image files as they don't have any alpha channels. First we sized the image files so they would appear in scale from the foreground to the background. The next   part was to make use of 3d space by making all the layers a 3d and by adjusting the Z axis we were able to push the layers back to give it some perspective and then re scale the layers to compensate for the adjustment.

The next part of the composition is to add in the 3D camera to make use and show off the 3D space you have created. By selecting the 3D camera you can change a lot of different settings on the camera. For this  we chose a 35mm camera which will help when it comes to creating a depth of field. We then placed the point of interest to the back of the image this creates a parallax.

In the final portion of the lesson we had to key frame in the camera moves to give it  a more professional look and feel. The camera moves up from behind the wall and arcs over and we can see the sand and the pyramids. This finished project makes it look like an actual camera was used when making the composition.