Composition Terms

Framing: Can make a scene fast/slow or long/fast. you also don't point the camera directly, to create a image.

Rules of Thirds: Splitting up the frame into thirds can put characters far away from the audience creating mystery  you also want a nine square grind in your mind when you look at the scene through the camera.

Use of Diagonals: Dutch angles when the camera is tilted slightly allows the audience to know when something bad is about to happen and so helps the directer show foreshadowing.

Deep/Shallow Focus: When an object or a character is focused on a shot or long range, this allows the viewers to focus on the selected object or characters or put then into mystery therefore creating more freedom for the viewers to think what they want to.

Focus Pulls: When the camera focuses from one distance to another, good to show the switch in the strongest character or to give the impression of the power shift.

Depth of Field: When the scene has many objects put between the camera and actor to give a scene the sense of depth.

Love Actually recreation

In a group, Izzy, Camille and Bryony and I recreated scenes from the film "Love Actually"

We drew out a story board and then took the camera around school and filmed the appropriate scenes in the best places we could find.

I drew the storyboard as extra coursework and so we used this as the idea, however when it came down to it, we couldnt recreate the storyboard that I did and so we drew a new one but from the same film.

We got all the camera shots that we needed, which were over the shoulder, panning, birds eye veiw. these all helped us get the scenes right and also gave us new understandings on how to use the camera and get the right angles at the right point to emphasis the scene.