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Cinematography and Mise en scène

I really dont feel like doin anything tonight, but i figured this is worth putting in even if its really bad (and short).

The Cinematography in a film is directed by a cinematographer (more commonly referred to as the director of photography). Traditionally a cinematographer can affect the whole look and feel of a movie.

Some aspects of cinematography include:

-Film stock (choosing they type of film, so the desired effect is given from film)

-Filters (to adjust brightness, contrast, tint…etc)

-Camera movement (i.e. panning, tracking, etc…)

-Shot angles/types (i.e. Long shot, Over-shoulder shot, High angle shot…)

Mise en scène

At first I thought “Mise en scene” was a spelling mistake until I googled it, I have honestly never heard of the term before,, but from some quick research i got some infermation.

Mise en scene is used to describe the look of a scene, it includes lighting, character placement, character movement, prop placement, music, camera movement, what is included in the shot, white balance. Mise en scene basically is aspects of composition of the shot as a whole.

Working on an intro inspired by intro of Resident evil (1)

Youtube lol

Short film making – Summary for “iNose” the movie

Pre production

Pre production went for the whole of term 3, we had to:

-Think of a story

-Write a screenplay

-Draw the storyboard

-Get our actors

-Do a bit of planning for filming

I found this to be easiest part for us; it just took a long time for us because of the other assignments we had to do. The hardest thing about this part was probably thinking of an original story. Writing the screenplay was easy after we knew what the story was, and the storyboard was just a visual representation of our screenplay.

We also sort of got Brady.M, Ben and Matt to play the parts of our main characters. We planed Ian to play one of the parts (but we didn’t end up filming with him)

I knew where we were going to film most of our movie at this stage.

Production

Places we filmed:

-Underpass (legal spray painting site)

-Isabella Plains Primary School car park

-Street in Isabella Plains

-My house

-Photography lab

The first day of filming involved us filming for about 1.5 hours; we had Brady, Ben, and Matt to act for us in that period. We got some good filming done in that period; although we didn’t use a tripod (I planed to stabilize the film in the post production). Ben’s car broke down at lunch so we couldn’t film for the second period.

Brady M got bashed by some A…Holes on the weekend, so we were down 1 actor for the next filming session.

Our second day of filming, we had Matt, Chris Colless, and Lyle to film for us. Chris replaced Brady; I played the part of Joe.

Post Production

Currently i am in the process of post production. I'm useing After Effects to stabilize the film and resize the aspect ratio closer to 16:9. Also i need to key out a bluescreen scene and put in a flash background.

I am also in the process of removing noise from the sound files, and aslo removing unwanted sounds from the movie. I still have to record some sound effects and make it fit into the movie.

Then then i need to put the movie togather befoure november 16th...

Just some thoughts/what lies ahead...

By going through the production prossess of making a movie i have learn a lot of things/skills:
-Making a film is not eazy
-There is a lot of plannning involved
-learnt to/got better at useing a lot of software like After Effects, Audiocity....
-got a lot of skills for filming/editing
-learmt to write a proper screenplay
-a lot more


There is about 3 weeks left to get this film done. I have left a lot of things to do for the last 3 weeks (whioch was stupid)

Sound

I used AoA Audio Extractor to extract the audio from the video files.

I’m using Audacity to edit the sound:

-Noise removed

-Unwanted sounds removed

-Change position of sound

-Add Sound effects

-Render out final sound file

I’m using FL Studio to make music for our movie, I didn’t want to use songs in our movie because I don’t think it will go well with our movie.

FL Studio is a rhythmic beat making software, its mainly for Hip Hop or techno music but I’m attempting to make some movie music with it. If that fails I don’t know what I’m going to do.

I didn't ask Amber for the sound recording thing. The sound we have while filming is very low quality, there is a lot of background noise and a lot of unwanted noise. Our actors don't even sound loud so i will have to amply the sound by a lot (this reduced the quality even more)

Even though i realize that sound has a big role in making a movie successful, i didn't really plan the sound for our movie.

Without sound a movie will just be boring. There could be the greatest visual effects/cinematography in a scene but if there was no sound it wouldn't look as impressive(or just plain boring). I think sound can have a greater impact on the audience then the video. (we listen to music but we don't watch movies with no sound)

-Sound creates emotion in the viewer

-Sound supports what being shown

-Sound gives us an idea of whats happening (even if its not visual)

History of sound in films

-First known Film with (non-synchronized)sound was shown in Paris in 1900

-First known commercial Film with synchronized sound was shown in New York City in 1923

-One of the biggest problem with sound was the volume, before electronic amplifiers were invented.

“Motion pictures will do for the eye what the phonograph has done for the ear.”– Thomas Edison

Video

Where to start…

When I got the film off our first camera it was in “.MOD” format, I had never heard of this format. I started using Adobe Media Encoder CS4 to encode the videos to mpeg format. But after doing some research it turned out I could just rename the files from .MOD to .MPEG (they use the same encoding but has a different a camera records to .MOD)

For our second camera we had to import the video into iMovie using a firewall cable, then export it to mpeg-2 format. I used my USB to transfer it from school to home….

Currently in Adobe After Effects CS4 I’m just stabilizing the footage, and changing the resolution to 632x288 because its closer to 16:9 (windscreen) ratio, …i aslo need to key out and render the bluescreen footage and put in a background which i will create with Flash. I plan to use a After effects to fix a lot of other stuff in the film (if I get around to it lol..)

- Stabilize the footage: If you know this object was supposed to be in the same place from frame to frame, but it moves for some reason, After Effects can track the object's movements, then animate it to move on the exactly the opposite direction so it appears to be steady.

– copied from http://www.dvpa.com/public/536.cfm

If i don't Stabilize the film it doesn't look as professional, it gives the illusion that we used a tripod for filming the whole movie (even if we didn't). I am going to stabilize the stuff we filmed with the tripod to make it perfect.

I am currently planning to use Windows movie maker, I’m also going to put the sound and video files together useing Windows movie maker because I don’t render audio with the video files. I cant really comment much more on this because I haven't done it yet

I am currently planning to use VideoTagger (software from Electric Happiness) to make the credits for our movie, I cant really comment on this because I haven't done it yet

I also didn’t mention in the blog that my Video Card on my computer broke at the start of the holydays, and I have bought a older video card. This really makes my editing process a lot slower!

Some Processes / Techinical stuff

Software used I have used so far

- Adobe After Effects CS4

- Audiocity

- AoA Audio Extractor

- FL Studio

- Windows moviemaker

- Adobe Media Encoder CS4

- iMovie

- Electric Happiness - VideoTagger

- PhotoImpact X3

Poster Making

After seeing Ben and Brady’s poster I realized we should also make a poster,

I used PhotoImpact X3 to make the poster,

-Its 4961 x 7016 rez (A2 Size )

-72 DPI (that’s what PhotoImpact says anyway)

-The editable version of the file is nearly 10mb, (and it kills my comp to edit it lol)

The poster is pretty basic:

-Huge logo in the middle

-Coming soon (release date)

-Sponsors (fake in our movie lol)

-Information on the cast of the movie

-A picture to represent our movie

I should really thank Ben for most of the ideas on our poster, because its pretty much a copy of his poster.

Some photos of earlier version of the poster:

The "INOSE"

The inose is a ipod nano cacse with some paper inside it, i designed the front of it on the computer, here is the process: