Preliminary Task

Story Board

Treatment

• Preliminary Task


• Title


• It’s My House!

Synopsis

Emily comes home to find her front door wide open. She rushes inside and there is a stranger in her kitchen. She asks who they are and threatens to call the police. The stranger denies being a robber but a pan shot reveals to the viewers the stolen goods hidden behind their back. Emily is suspicious and turn to find the phone to call the police, but when she is looking away the stranger slowly leaves the room. Emily turns and is shocked but then the stranger sticks their head back around the door and wishes Emily good day before leaving again. The scene ends with a long shot of the stranger sprinting away down the road as a police siren blares.

Characters

• Emily - A teenage female, who owns the house.
• Thief called Janice - A thief who tried to steal the house and does everything she can not to get caught.

Film Techniques

We will film on a Canon EOS 700D and use three-point lighting to light the scene. The techniques we will use are:

* Match on action

* Shot/reverse shot

* 180 degree rule

* Tilt

* Pan

* 360 degree tracking shot

* Over the shoulder shot

Product Considerations

We intend to film in a house and the surrounding streets.

Features of the DSLR camera

• DSLR stands for digital single lens reflex.
• One lens and a mirror, reflects the light, where pictures are recorded on a digital card instead of film.

1. Automatic settings: are to get accustomed to the camera.

Set the dial to green automatic mode and make sure the lens is set to automatic focus, (af) make sure it is not manual focus (mf). Then push the shutter button halfway and the camera will automatically focus on the subject.

2. Exposure: is the amount of light, a digital camera sensor captures when a photo is taken.

Overexposed: is when too much light is exposed and results in a washed out photo.
Underexposed: When too little light is in the room and the photo will become too dark.

The camera's aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings directly affect exposure. 

3. Aperture: controls the size of the lens opening, which allows how much light into your camera.

• Shallow depth of field: when the foreground and background is blurred. 
• By opening up the aperture with a low f-stop number.

• Wide depth of field: where the photo is kept sharp from the foreground through background. By closing down the aperture with a high f-stop number.

4. Shutter speed: Shutter speed setting controls how long the shutter is open, to expose the image sensor to light.

• To freeze a moving subject: Open the Shutter with a fast shutter speed (for a millisecond.)
• The fast shutter speed- meaning that the shutter will only open for a short period of time, which allows less light in, to capture the moving subject. 

• Fast moving subject:You can show movement of a fast moving subject by keeping the shutter open for longer - with the use of a slow shutter speed.
• A slower shutter speed - meaning that the shutter will be open for longer. Therefore more light can reach the image sensor and photos taken of a moving object will be blurred. 

5. ISO: Is how sensitive your image sensor is to the light. 

• The higher the ISO, the more sensitive the sensor will be - the brighter the image will be.
  Using a high ISO in low light will produce a grainy image, so it is best to use the lowest

• ISO possible and adjust the brightness of the photo using other elements such as Aperture and Shutter speed.

The lower the ISO, the less sensitive the sensor will be and therefore the darker the image will be.

Media language

Camera

1. Establishing shot: the opening shot which establishes where the people in the scene are.

     

                                                             

2. Two-shot: A shot in which two figures appear in the frame.

3. Point of view shot: A camera angle in which the viewer seems to see with the eyes of a character in the scene.

4. Over the shoulder shot: A camera shot in which the subject of the shot is filmed from behind a persons head and shoulders, which are framed to one side in the foreground.

5. High angle shot: A camera shot taken from a higher level than the subject, and angled down towards them. this shot can have the effect of diminishing the authority of the subject, making
them look powerful.

6. Low-angle shot: A camera shot taken from a lower level than the subject, and angled up at them. this shot can have the effect of enhancing the authority of the subject, making them look powerful.

7. Canted angle: A cinematic device where the camera is physically places at an angle so that vertical and horizontal surfaces appear diagonal.

8. Pan: A horizontal camera movement left-to-right or right-to-left on a fixed axis. the word is short for "panoramic movement". A pan following a moving object suggests that we are viewing it from the point of view of an observer.

9. Tilt: A camera movement up or down on a horizontal axis.

10. Tracking shot: A camera movement achieved by mounting the camera on a dolly and moving it along a track. Typically, tracking shots are used to follow characters or other objects in motion.

Sound

11. Diegetic sound: Sound that can be heard by the characters in the world of the film.

12. Non-diegetic sound: Sound that cannot be heard the characters in the world of the film.

13. Synchronous sound: Sound that is directly matched with what is being viewed.

14. Sound bridge: Editing technique in which visual cuts are deliberately not matched with audio cuts. For example, the editor may cut to a completely new scene, but allow sound from the preceding scene to run on for a short time. Alternatively, we may hear the sound of the next scene before we see it.

15. Dialogue: The conversation that happens between characters in a work of fiction, or the lines spoken by actors.

16. Voice over: A type of none-diegetic, asynchronous sound in which the audience hear a voice that does not have a source either withing the frame or within hearing distance and which is not heard by the people on screen.

17. Incidental music: Music used in a film or play as a background to create or enhance a particular atmosphere.

18. A short musical phrase primarily used as form of punctuation.

19. Ambient sound: Sound which is natural to a setting.

Mise en scene

20. Mise-en-scene: The look of a film, derived from its use of sets and settings, lighting, colour, costumes, hair and make-up, props, actor movement, and the overall placement and visual composition of theses elements by the director.

21. Location: A "real" place, as opposed to a studio, in which something is filmed or otherwise recorded. A location might be a New York City street or a desert.

22. Set: An interior that has been constructed to look like a real place when filmed; the set helps to identify the time and place in which a narrative will unfold.

23. Costume: The clothes worn by characters in a fictional text. The costumes are part of the mise en scene and as such are an important part of  signification (for example, as a generic or period identifier).

24. Make-up: Cosmetics used to change the appearance of a performer.

25. Prop: Short for "property". A small item used in a film or TV production to add realism, assist with the narrative or act as a motif.

26. High-key lighting: Lighting which eliminates most of the shadows.

27. Low-key lighting: Lighting which emphasizes shadows.

Editing

28. Cut: The commonest form of edit in moving image texts, this is the instantaneous change from one shot to another in an edit. 

29. Shot/reverse shot: A convention for showing a dialogue sequence. We cut between the two speakers, showing each person's point of view.

30. Eye-line match: A visual code used to make it clear what the subject is looking at.

31. Graphic match: A compositional device onscreen, whereby objects of common characteristics of shape or colour are used in successive shots.

32. Match on action; Two shots in which an action begun in the first is completed in the second, thus disguising the fact that there has been a cut.

33. Dissolve: In editing, a cross-fade between two shots: one fades out as another fades in.

34. Wipe: A shot transition in which a new image wipes over the previous one.

35. Superimposition: To place one image over the top of another on the screen.

36. long take: Not to be confused with long shot, a long take is a shot of comparatively long duration.

37. Montage: The production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture, usually accompanied by music, to illustrate and association of ideas or a passing of time.

38. Post-production: The various processes that take place after filming in order to create the final cut of a film.