Carmen's Media Studies Blog

Editing in a film is the process of putting together shots into a movie or television program to make the director's vision come to life. Film editors are responsible for compiling footage using video editing software and making artistic decisions that have an impact on a film's narrative, therefore editing is both a technical and creative ability. When information is presented to the audience is decided through editing. For dramatic or humorous effects, editors might rearrange sequences and move them forward or backward in time. An editor can purposefully withhold material to help build up a twist ending, or they can intentionally prolong a shot so the audience picks up additional information.  Pacing is decided by editing. Editors assess pacing scene by scene and in the context of the entire movie. To increase suspense, an editor can, for instance, employ slower, longer shots in a particular scenario. The same movie's editor might opt to delete a whole pointless scene bec...

Lighting is the quality, source, direction, and color of a light. It is essential to film because it gives the audience a sense of meaning and a visual mood. The audience is directed where to gaze by lighting. The lighting design directs the viewer's attention to a certain performer, item, or aspect of a scene. Lighting reflects a character's mentality.  You can alter the brightness, size, color, and roughness of the light that surrounds a character to correspond with their feelings.The film's genre is defined and supported by the lighting.The most effective tool for conveying mood is lighting.Film noir, for instance, is one of the movie genres most recognized for its distinctive lighting style. Film noir is distinguished by strong contrasts between light and dark, strikingly patterned shadows, and unusual framing and composition choices. For the audience, lighting establishes a visual tone, ambience, and feeling of purpose.  Lighting has six different techniques and the fo...

Trucking Action Line: Carmen is trying to catch Anjuel's attention in the school hallways. In the video, Carmen is calling Anjuel's name twice and he then turns to her and responds. The trucking movement shows Carmen walking behind Anjuel. Static                  Action Line: Ms. Vincent is speaking to her classroom about an upcoming test . In the video Ms, Vincent urges her students to study hard to be sure about passing their upcoming quiz for the class. Dolly In   Action Line: Carmen and Anjuel are shaking hands in the school building. In the video the two are giving eachother a greeting handshake also known as dapping one another up. The camera moves in to show the two shaking hands. Zoom out  Action Line: Melanie and Carmen and sitting down in the cafeteria.  In the video, Carmen and Melanie are talking about the nice pigment of eachother's lipgloss, as the camera zooms out it shows that the two are sitting down at a lunc...

  In this assignment, my teacher assigned my group to create a storyboard of  the nine camera movements: pan, static, tilt, zoom in, zoom out, dolly in, dolly out, tracking, trucking. I wrote the action line, shot size, angle, and framing for each camera movement. Melanie A research each of these items for all nine movements. Anjuel C  created and illustrated the nine drawings for the movements. We all learned the definition of each shot and how to portray them into creative videos.

 Camera Movement is the way  a camera shifts  to visually  narrate  and shape the viewer's perspective of  a scene. Camera movement is important to use in a film since it helps change the audience's view and makes it more engaging. The director of photography is responsible  for camera movement in production. Prior  to the lesson I knew the two camera techniques, tilt and zoom in. I knew the tilt camera movement by the camera being tilted up or down. I knew the zoom in camera movement by the camera zooming in closely to what is in the frame.              Director #1: Jordan Peele 1. Get Out (2017) 2.US (2019) 3. Nope (2022) Favorite Scene:Get Out (2017) : Zoom In This shot shows the camera is zoomed into the character's face to show his emotion.  Director #2: Tim Burton  1. Corpse Bride (2005) 2. Edward Scissorhands (1990) 3. Beetlejuice(1988) Favorite Scene: Corpse Bride (2005) : Tilt This scene is til...