Nov 24th & 25th Entry #10

For this week's entry, please do some research on film terminology and techniques that you might use during your script writing. Create a 'cheat sheet' for yourself to reference during your groups writing. You should have at least 10 terms or techniques.

Animation - The process of photographing drawings or objects of a frame one at a time; by changing a drawing or moving an object a little before each frame is taken

Boom - A long mobile beam or pole used to hold a microphone or camera.

Clip - A brief segment excerpted from a film.

Dubbing - The process of matching voice with the lip movements of an actor on the screen; dubbing also refers to any aspect of adding or combining sounds to create a film's final soundtrack.

Iris - A technique used to show an image in only one small round area of the screen. An Iris-Out begins as a pinpoint and then moves outward to reveal the full scene, while an Iris-In moves inward from all sides to leave only a small image on the screen. An iris can be either a transitional device (using the image held as a point of transition) or a way of focusing attention on a specific part of a scene without reducing the scene in size.

Jump Cut - An instantaneous cut from one action to another, at first seemingly unrelated, action. Jump cuts will usually call attention to themselves because of the abrupt change in time and/or place.

Long Lens - Any lens with a focal length greater than normal; a normal focal length approximates the size relationships seen by the human eye, while a long focal length creates a narrower angle of vision, causing a larger image. A long lens alters perspective by flattening a subject into its background. 

Mask - A device placed in front of a lens to reduce the horizontal or vertical size of the frame or to create a particular shape (for example, periscope eyepiece, binoculars, or gun-sight).

Matte Shot - A process for combining two separate shots on one print, resulting in a picture that looks as if it had been photographed all at once. For example, a shot of a man walking might be combined with a shot of a card table in such a way that the man appears to be six inches high and walking on a normal size card table.

MOS - Any segment of film taken without sound. 

Moviola - A special projection machine (used by film editors) that holds several reels of film simultaneously and can run at variable speeds, backward or forward, and stop at any frame.

For the Audience:

-create the play as if it were for the audience

-make your film so that the audience understands what is going on

-another thing is that you should have fun while creating the film and also making it so that the audience is not bored out of their mind while watching it!

November 17th & 18th Entry #9

You have now learned what personal and critical responses to images entail. Now, using your ability to be discerning, find an image online that you believe would be worthwhile to respond to. Put a link to the image on your blog (NOT THE IMAGE ITSELF) and then write a

personal or critical response to the image of at least 400 words.




Imagine what it would be like with only one special person in your life. That one person always being there for you in your toughest times and always lending a shoulder to you when you need it most. Who would hold your hand when you were scared of would cuddle you when you were lonely. Not many people have experienced this life, but I know what this feels like.



I have this one extremely special person in my life that has always been there for me when I have needed him most. This person would be my Opa. Whenever I was feeling down my Opa would always bring me up with kind words saying that everything was going to be okay. He tells me that all I have to do is follow my stars and life will go on.



I have always pictured may stars being a blue in colour and a light yellow on the outside. I'm not sure why I have always seen them this way, but I guess it is because blue and yellow are encouraging colours to me.



This picture of these people holding hands remind me of my Opa and me this one time. We were holding hands and he was telling me that eerything was going to be okay with the life that I had ahead of me. He was saying that if ever I was alone when he was gone, all I had to do was look for a patch of sunlight and look for my shadow. Opa said that may shadow would always be with me because he was my shadow looking over me.



I am fortunate enough to still my special person in my life, but I know that evenutally lose him. When that time comes, it will ripe the remaining of my heart out, but I know that if I just look for my shadow, my Opa will be here for me!

That is what this picutre means to mean!