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Welcome back to MediaFix! In one of my previous blogs I spoke about researching and learning camera movements for cinematic footage. Below is the footage I shot, practicing the shot, after learning the key steps.    Michael Bay shot, March 20, 2024, By MediaFix I shot this by first placing my character at a higher angle from the camera Then, I moved them in the opposite direction than I moved the camera, so the character was moving to the left while I was moving to the right. I used an fps of 25 but if I were to shoot this again I would move the camera faster to create a more energetic look, or raise the fps and slow down the shot in editing for a slow motion look. The angle I used was low but not low enough to create the effect I wanted to, so I would also tilt the camera higher and start lower in my next attempt.  By learning of the Michael Bay shot I can take our film to the next level cinematically wise, and, by practicing the shot I have learned what I should change ...

Hi, and welcome back to MediaFix! To enhance our film, I, as the cinematographer, decided to research camera movements for cinematic footage. I believe looking for more professional examples of shots will help our film greatly and improve our storyboards. While researching, I learned of a camera movement called the Michael Bay, created and named after the director. This shot is one commonly used in his movies and based of a video I watched, I can learn how to apply it in our own film.  The shot is an effect you can create by making the background and the foreground move separately from each other. Below is an example of the shot:  Clip from Bad Boys , 1995 To achieve this shot there are a few steps. The first is the have the character moving the opposite direction than the camera. The second is to use a frame rate of at least 50 fps, this is to obtain a slow-motion effect, but it can also be shot at 25 fps if I were to go for a faster look. Next is to shoot from a lower angle...

Hello and welcome back to MediaFix! Crime drama is going to be the genre of our film. If we want our film to portray our story and characters effectively, we will need to research more into this genre.  Still from Reservoir Dogs , October 8, 1992 Dramas focus on moral dilemmas of characters. They are serious stories that can regularly happen in everyday life. Characters in a drama are portrayed in conflict with people, forces of nature, or possibly themselves. So to accurately create a crime drama, our characters will have to be realistic, possibly friends and family members, facing the struggles of their day to day life.  However, drama is a broad genre. The key conventions of it's sub-genre, the crime drama are below: "the inclusion of violence, murder, theft, betrayal the detection of the criminal and the investigation that leads to his or her capture or punishment how far there is a moral purpose and restoration of order"(AQA). There are settings of dark alley ways, q...

Hi and welcome back to media fix! In our film we will use multiple shots and angles to add meaning. Because of this I will be learning angles I have not used in the past to see if we should consider them for our production. I want to first learn the Dutch angle because it is associated with the feeling of tension, and that is a common feeling in our film.  The Dutch angle is  often referred to as a Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle, or German angle. It is when a camera is angled so the horizon line isn't parallel with the bottom of the frame and the vertical lines are at an angle to the side of the frame.  From an article I read, which can be found here , I learned that Dutch angles are a way to portray feelings of tension, uneasiness, or abnormality. The article goes on to explain when to use this angle. The misuse or overuse of the canted angle will diminish its impact on your audience.  Dutch angles should be used when you are trying to make your audience fe...

Hi, welcome back to MediaFix! In my previous post I explained how I learned to solve my constant issue of overexposure when filming. Overexposure can be a major problem if it is unintentionally in my film because it can cause detail to be lost and the shots will appear washed out.  By researching, I found videos and articles that showed me how to fix overexposure. One solution is the histogram, this measures tone while filming to tell me if my film is overexposed by leaning to the right, or underexposed by leaning to the left. Then I can adjust my settings accordingly to have the curves remain in the middle, giving me a perfectly exposed shot. While the histogram can show me if there is overexposure, knowing how to use my camera settings of ISO, shutter speed, and aperture, will help me fix it. In the video below I am applying these skills I learned to practice and test out how they work.  Solving overexposure, 5 February, 2024, by Media Fix To apply what I learned, I screen r...

 Welcome back to MediaFix! Understanding camera settings is essential when fixing overexposure. I needed to know how to use settings like ISO, shutter speed, and aperture during my last film. While I had a basic understanding, I did not fully know how to use them to my advantage in changing the look of a scene.  Multiple factors of settings play a role in controlling exposure in a shot. One I struggled with was understanding how to use was shutter speed. Shutter speed is the amount of light a camera takes in. Because of this, a slower shutter speed will have longer exposure, and faster will have shorter exposure. Applying this knowledge when trying to fix overexposure while filming is key. So if my shot is underexposed, I will need to lower the shutter speed to raise the brightness without using ISO. The opposite applies to overexposure, I would need to raise the shutter speed.  ISO is the International Organization of Standardization. This organization standardizes ...