George Melies Influence

George Melies Influence On Modern Film

The new techniques in film that George Melies discovered were:

Stop motion as displayed very well in 'The Haunted Castle'

Transitions such as dissolve and fade in and fade out as displayed in 'Trip To The Moon'

Compositing in 'The Man With A Rubber Head'

These techniques are used very commonly in modern film. dissolve transitions can be found in the most movies as well as fade ins and fade outs.

Compositing using layers or green screen in extremely common and can be displayed very well in 'The Martian'

Stop motion is very common in frame by frame CGI and animations.

Copyright infringement

Copyright Infringement?

Example one.

Mona Lisa

If the Mona Lisa was still in copyright. I would say this is not copyright infringement rather it falls under the exception of a parody. My reasoning is that it is intended for humor and appeals to a completely different market that the original.

This is a song composed entirely of parodies of modern pop songs, created to show the similar chord structure of the majority of modern music. should this be infringement as they have made money and gained substantial fame though this song?

Honest Trailers are a Youtube channel that takes displays their own spoof trailers of many movies to ridicule them. my question is that are reviews that show parts of films compyright infringment or not?

Bad lip reading takes parts of film and news clips and changes the sound track and dialogue using ADR for humor. is this copyright infringement as it is using original images?

Parody of apple products, clearly a parody but using brand is copyright infingment?

Basic Editing in Premier

Learning to Edit in Premier Pro

Nothing to fancy this week just taking it slowly but lernt some useful things;

Ripple edits: Trim head - Q
                      Trim Tail - W

Pointer tool - V
Razor tool  -  C
Rolling Edit - N
Ripple edit - B

Split edits: leading in with audio -  J cut
                  leading in with video - L cut


Very Useful:  Use arrow keys up and down to jump between edits and sideways to jump frames, use + and - to zoom in and out and use 'home' and 'end' to go between start and end of sequence.

Bins = folders USE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

other things were importing projects from Photoshop and doing basic titles.

Exposure, Camers, and Tripods

Exposures, Tripods & Cameras

First rule with tripods,    Left - Loose

                                        Right - tight

Set up: 

1. loosen arm and pull out of the way of legs

2. Undo leg locks

3. open top clips and extend (stronger is better, weight at the bottom)

4. Tripod head - Pre-level; tighten arm and move head to flat position, loosen head and use spirit level to make perfect

5. make sure tilt is firm before mounting camera

6. Mount camera by pressing red button and sliding in base plate.

7. Tighten base plate lock

8. Adjust Tilt and Pan friction to preference

The two cameras we will learn were the cannon XF300 and the Sony EX1

Learning Exposure

Gain: go to menu then gain and set (recommended by Patrick so it must be good) Low to 0dB Medium to +3dB and High to +9dB

Gain is the same as ISO (international standards organisation) it is the sensitivity of the sensor. (higher the gain the more sensitive)

Shutter speed and angle

Shutter speed is how fast the shutter is spinning, normally it is twice the frame rate i.e. 25fps is 1/50s 

Shutter angle setting how large the shutter opening is

The smaller the degrees the less light.

25fps - 1/50s - 180deg

50fps - 1/100s - 180deg

Slowing the shutter speed or increasing the angle (same effect) will cause motion blur but also a higher exposure.

Speeding up the shutter speed or decreasing the angle will case sharp images decreasing the exposure ans also look 'jumpy'

'normal' settings for different frame rates

25fps - 1/50s - 180deg

50fps - 1/100s - 180deg

Aperture

Aperture is controlling the amount of light through the lens. 

Each F stop halves or doubles the amount of light.

(note: stay away from F-stop extremes, causing blooming and showing up lens faults) 

Opening aperture will give a shorter DOF and vice versaso it can be all summed up like this

ISO/Gain: Sensitivity of sensor - Higher ISO/Gain brings noise and vice versa

Shutter Speed/Angle Time sensor is exposed - Slower shutter brings more motion blur and vice versa

Aperture: Amount of light though lens - Larger aperture means smaller depth of field and vice versa

BSA 106 top ten film list

Top Ten Movies


Taken
Pierre Morel
2008
Action









Unknown
Jaume Collet-Serra
2011
Action










The Equalizer
Antione Fuque
2014
Action










Master and Commander

Peter Weir
2003
Historical Action










The Bourne Identity
Doug Liman
2002
Action










Deja Vu
Tony Scott
2006
Mystery Action









Shooter
Antoine Fuque
2007
Action









Safe House
Daniel Espinosa
2012
Action









The Martian
Ridley Scott
2015
Sci-Fi

Week One Video editing

Week one in BSA 105

This week we learnt about the history of editing and how the modern ways of editing video have come about.

This week I learnt about

1. Linear and non linear editing linear being an analog process and non linear being digital (one exception)
2. online and offline editing
3. Edit decision lists
4. timecode (hours:minutes:seconds:frames)
5. Interframe and intra frame compression  (still a bit unlear on this)
6. letterboxing, pillar boxing, centercut, and pan and scan
7. aspect ratios 4:3 16:9
8. Breif overveiw of how vedeo comression works e.g. 4:4:4 and 4:1:1 etc.

I would like to cover more about video compression and how data of video is stored, I am still a bit unclear about the 4:4:4 and intrafame and interframe compression.

Week One Filmmaking

Weekone blog Introduction filmmaking

First week of lectures we looked at some interesting videos from filmakeriq.com the main things we covered in these videos were color temperature, and lenses.

Things I learnt were:

1. Color temperature is the temperature of light thought the electromagnetic spectrum.
2. White light is a mix of all colors e.g prisim.
3. Plaunks law... lots of maths i didnt understand
4.CDI color rendering index (I think) (daylight at noon being 100)

5. Index of refration  air = 1.000293 water 1.33
6. focal length is the distance between the center of the lens and the focal point or sensor
7. field of veiw - focal length:sensor size
8. F stop = apature size/focal length
9. T stop = exposure compensation
10. Prime (fixed lenses) and Zoom lens
11. Varifocal and Parfocal. (ENG lens will not adjust focus when zoomed)???

I would like to go over understanding how to use the white balance of the camera in future and setting my own custom balance, understand focal length of lense more and the maths of the F-stop. and how to compensate for Parfocal lens (staying in focus while zooming).