In this lesson, we looked at the ‘N’ of M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E which stands for Narrative. Personally, I don’t struggle too much with including this in my analysis but I’m often unsure of how to weave it in throughout. I usually stick to mentioning the narrative techniques at the start, when I’m looking at the film/book as […]
B2 Theory & Research
Storyboards and Shotlists
After officially being handed our brief, we are actively going over important concepts and skills that will benefit us for the projects this year. Naturally, this would mean recapping and exploring storyboards and animatics, which was the aim of this lesson, alongside creating a storyboard slide animatic on a given scene. Task 1 […]
Sound [Recap]
To finish our recap of the ‘M’ in Migraine, we went through our knowledge of sound and did some technical analysis to refresh our memory. Firstly, we talked as a group about the words we already associate with sound. Here is the list we came up with: MP3 Tension Loud/quiet Orchestral Thematics Foley Natural/unnatural Tone […]
Editing and Lighting [Recap]
To continue our recap on the ‘M’ of M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E, we learned about editing and lighting. Firstly, we watched a video that explained different editing techniques, such as cuts and transitions, but because that was quite long and detailed, so I’ll be going over the key information and definitions we focused on afterwards. Cross-cutting: Cutting from […]
Subject Research
I will now be doing further research on the three main ideas that I had from my inspirations and mind maps so that I can make a final decision on what I will be doing for my project. ✦༝˚ Black Swan and the Duality of Humanity ˚༝✦ The 2010 film Black Swan directed by Darren […]
Mise En Scene [Recap]
In this lesson, we focused on the ‘M’ of ( M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E ), namely media language, which includes mise en scene, cinematography, editing, sound and lighting. We focused on two of these aspects but included editing, sound and lighting in some of our analysis as well. Mise en scene – The elements of a scene Cinematography – Photography […]
Genre [Recap]
Last year, I learned about MIGRAINE, which is an acronym for things to include in your writing when analysing a piece of media. It was useful to follow when doing my analysis on Midnight in Paris which involved a lot of in-depth research, because having some sort of structure helped me feel less lost, as I […]
3D Research
Intro to 3D Firstly, we started off with the basic definition of a 3D software package. It allows the creation and manipulation of volumetric elements in a three-dimensional cartesian-driven coordinate space. Volumetric elements are shapes with space inside of them that occupy an area on all three axis available. We have been over this […]