Tutorial Four

Planning a Short Film

Scripting

Scripting is the starting point to planning a short film. The script provides the dialogue and what is seen on the screen. A script should include:
- Moods and expressions
- Facial expressions
- Vocal expressions
- Movement
- Interaction with other characters
- Special effects
- Sound track instructions
- Lighting
- Camera Angles and types of shot
- Background sound and setting
- On screen graphics and titles

The script needs to have a main point to it. This main point needs to be relevant to the audience. A main character needs to be created and a setting. These will all help to create a plot. Develop a beginning middle end for your plot and major activities included in this. The script should also include lighting, sounds and camera affects.


Storyboarding
“Storyboards are a series of illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing an animated or live-action film” (Sunderland, 2010).
The storyboard tends to be a like a large comic sequence of the film with pictures of the activities to be carried out. This allows the director and cinematographers to visualise and discuss what shots are going to work and which are not.

Each scene in a film should be well planned out so everyone involved knows what is going on. The storyboard will ensure that nothing is left out or any scenes are misplaced. The production crew, cinematographer, director and editor should all make use of the storyboards.



Unpublished: Sunderland, J. (2010). Participation in occupation 1: film session. Cited with permission from the author.


Youtube.com

Youtube.com offers a website where can people upload video clips, share and view each others. Youtube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. It is now owned by Google Inc.

Unregistered members can view youtube video clips, however to add your own videos you need to set up your own account with Youtube. Youtube videos can also be added to a number of different websites including, Blogger, Facebook, Bebo and Twitter. When using Youtube there are legal requirements that must be taken into account, just as there is with Flickr. In saying this videos that may contain potentially offensive content are only available to those of 18 years and over. To access these videos you must have a Youtube account and over 18years of age.

Wikipedia. (2010, April 20). YouTube. Retrieved May 27, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

Stalker

Tutorial Two

DIGITAL CAMERA USE AND APPLICATIONS
“A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every future”.
This statement means that most of the new technology has its advantages over the old form of it but it also has it disadvantages. For example, digital cameras, below is the advantages and disadvantages of a digital camera.
Advantages –
- See the photos after you have taken them
- Choose what photos you would like to print
- Keep a copy of the photos on a computer or USB
- Adjust or adapt photos on a computer or USB before printing
Disadvantages –
- Printing of a photo is no longer a surprise
- People are able to delete the photos they do not like of themselves
- Very few hard copy photos are collected any more
Some of the ways digital images can be stored and transferred and manipulated using other communications technology is through the internet, computers and USBs. Images can be downloaded from a digital camera onto a hard drive, such as a computer. From here the images can be altered by a number of programmes on a computer. This adapted image is then uploaded to the internet where millions of people can view it. Most people upload images onto websites such as, facebook, bebo, blogs, and myspace. These websites have security settings that the user can alter to suit them, for example some people wish to ensure that no one else can view their photos except for themselves and friends. On the other case a number of people up load the images in which anyone else can access the image and use it in their own way.
There are a number of ethical issues that come up when transferring digital images. ...
Digital images are being used in Occupational therapy (OT) practice for a number of reasons. Some therapist use digital images as analysing a client. An example of this is videoing a kitchen assessment and then going back to it to analyse in greater detail. Digital images can be used in presentations that OTs may put on especially in powerpoint presentations. ...
The use of digital images in Occupational practice can be seen at this website, http://www.nzaot.com/
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp.
http://www.flickr.com/
A digital zoom is linked to the pixel count. This means when the image is enlarged or cropped the quality of the picture is poor as the pixel count changes.
Optical zoom’s quality does not change when enlarged. So with the optical zoom the pixel count remains the same.
Mega Pixel is one million pixels. Mega pixels are not only in digital cameras but are also used in the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays.