How I Survived Media Studies

     For our fourth assignment, we were told to watch a movie and take notes on different camera angles and shots we could find. I was excited to do this assignment mainly because after learning about different angles and shots, when I would watch movies on my own time I found myself over-analyzing it instead of focusing on the literal plot of the movie. I decided to choose Bird Box as my film for this assignment. In all honesty, I was going to do Insidious , but its 10:30 pm and I would like to sleep in peace tonight. Bird Box is a more ominous, suspenseful movie that I thought would have a multitude of different camera shots used to intensify the mood of the film.  Here are some prominent shots/ angles from the film Bird Box : 1. Establishing Shot The establishing shot was extremely well done in this movie. It starts by setting the scene, as you see in the picture on the left, showing the setting in a forest area with a river, th...

     For my latest assignment, I needed to comment on two other blogposts from people in my class, and mention things that I liked about their posts and camera shots. I did Desiree and Zoya, and that assignment was relatively easy because both of them had amazing blogposts that were well formatted, as well as videos that were very well done. Finding things to compliment regarding their blogs wasn't difficult, and now I get the honor to talk more in detail regarding each of their camera shots, and talk more about what specifically stood out in what they created. I also am going to compare their's to mine too, finding things that I could've done better or things that we did similarly.  Desiree's Camera Shots      Two of my favorite shots from Desiree's blog were the POV shot and the over the shoulder shot. The POV shot is most relatively used to immerse the audience into a scene, and make them feel like they are part of the shot themselves, basically mak...

    Our  first assignment was to create five "sample  films" using the camera on our phones. Basically, I needed to use my friends as props in my videos while I struggled to hold my phone still enough to not make someone nauseous, while ALSO making sure I was recording at the correct angle.  The first sample film that I did was an extreme close up of someone (that someone being my mother) lighting a candle. I thought shooting this in an extreme close up format would be cool, in order to vividly see the lighter light each wick on the candle. Especially since it is close enough to take note of the wax beginning to melt (and also my mother not being able to light one of the wicks). An extreme close up is meant to show extreme detail, and I tried to do that through the lighting of the candle. I believe that this shot was decent, as it did show the detail in the candle, but could've maybe been a bit closer.  The next film that I created was an overhead shot. Th...