Planning for Publication

Who is the primary audience for my trailer?

Lighting Techniques

Three point lighting

In this lesson I learnt standard way of lighting an object with a key light, back light and fill light. The three different positions of light illuminate the shots subject, which control the shadows created by the direct light. I also learnt that
the use of dark light is predominately used in horror, the technique used is called chiaroscuro as the contrast between light and dark is shown.

Lighting creates many different effects and illusions as it draws audience member into the shot.

In class we used coloured filters to manipulate the main source of light using red and blue to create different moods and changes in the atmosphere. The red lighting came across as a theme of horror - death and blood. While the blur lighting created a cold feeling as if a mystical is happening.
ISO - film sensitivity is also called film speed. 150 100 - low sensitivity but good quality. 1600 - very sensitive meaning low quality making it more grainy.

 

Camera Techniques

Camera Setting/Techniques

The aperture - Is known as  the circular curtain inside the lens. It is the unit of measurement that defines the size of the opening in the lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or digital sensor.

The F-Stop refers to the 'lens focal length'. This is used to manipulate the amount of light that comes into the camera.

The smaller the F-Stop (camera number) there will be less light going into the camera, this allows everything to be more focused as well as for a wider depth of field.

 

Depth of field is how much of the shot is in focus. The more the depth of field (wide depth) means the more you will have in focus in your image. The smaller the depth of field (narrow depth) means only certain parts of the shot are in focus and the background is mainly blurred.

Using Jing to analise a trailer

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Texas Chainsaw - Shot type analysis

Analysis and shot recreations

In todays lesson I watched the 'Texas Chainsaw' Trailer and thought about the shots I would like to use in my own trailer and production work. I then took a few screenshots from the trailer and analysed each image explaining my personal thoughts about the shots and what they could possibly show.