Thursday 29 December 2011

CSI:NY


The CSi:NY starts with a thrilling scene of darkness with scattered light which shows Det.Mac taylor is underground, he has his gun out to show he is looking/after someone also he has other arm on his stomach by the time we establish this the camera zooms in to give us a closer look and we establish blood on his arm, after this we hear drops of something then again the camera helps us to establish what it is, it was drops of water, the tension is building up the Det. is looking more and more weary and cautious with his every footstep as the camera establishes this for us when it zooms towards his feet with this the camera almosts tracks his steps for a few seconds, we then come in to the meduim shot where the Det.'s face is shown to show the emotions which are running through with him, it can show him being anxious, maybe a bit scared, also quite injured and quite alert.
After this straight away we have a location establishing wide shot, where we see the actual underground place, the camera then tracks and can be said as pan, with the camera being behind the pillars it also adds a sense of effect and out of no where we see the person the Det. is after he looks like a mysterious, dangerous character from the first site, then straight away we see a shot where the two of the characters are shown, this shot shows that the Det. is getting closer and that the other figure, the bad guy, who looks is most definately a bad guy is getting prepared the shot goes to a close up of his hands holding the guns in both of his hands and his fingers getting ready on the trigger, the camera shows a shot where both are shown but in a nearly reflection sort of shot where, the bad guy steps forward, where we now know it is time where action will start and this is the part to which all the tensions has lead too, the step is mis- heard and the Det. looks the other, we see an over the shoulder shot to show this, the Det. looks back by the time he understands he has made a mistake and looked the other way, the camera goes to the bad guy shows him holding the gun and him pointing at the Det. then zooms in once shows the steadiness of the bad guy shooting the gun and then zooms again at the exact point of the shot from the gun and from this the whole start of CSI:NY starts with the transition form the gun to the NY city with most likely it bieng a helicopter shot.

Monday 19 December 2011

Feed the fish


This is my groups preliminary task consisting of; Ashad, Shehryar and Zainab. The task was called 'feed the fish'.
The way we adapted to the script we were given is something i really liked, then from there we moved on to acting it out, the characters we used, the costumes, the camera shots these brought the overall project to life. I feel that it was mostly performed well but, with a few tweaks here and there we would have made it even better. Things that we did not get right was, the time we put into our editing, not all shots were as smooth, even though the camera shots were. Also at the beginning, the end scene cuts into it, this is due to the lack of editing we did and was one of the minor acknowledgements of this.
Apart from a couple of these sort of minor things i think it has worked very well and the group really did put in a lot of effort to bring this all together, the transitions for tittles, the music was a very good choice,  the shots were good as well they worked with the storyline and the script, the lighting was decent, the costumes were good worked well to show authority.
I feel that through this task i have learnt the basics of doing this sort of project, i was involved in editing, through this i learnt a number of things, especially through imovie, the next thing was using the camera and i had a chance for this as well, learning to be clever with the shots and keeping the camera steady without a tripod felt to be quite tricky, aslo in sound, finding the perfect sound to go with the footage and then to raise and lower the sounds at different times.
Overall it was a succesful project, with many things learnt although, still many to learn but mainly the project had gone very good.