The Solus Script

This was the draft script to our preliminary task, The Solus...

*Looking at man*
Persona: “What have we done…?”

Man: “We?!”

*Looking at persona*
Persona: “Yes… we… (smirks) you didn’t stop me”

*Looking at man*
Man: “I shouldn’t have to stop you… you should know when to stop”

*Looking at persona*
Persona: “But we like it”

*Looking at man*
Man: (lashing out) “You like it! (echoes)

*Changes to both but man is alone*

*Back to looking at persona*

*Looking at man*
Man: “You’re insane”

*Looking at persona*
Persona: “We’re insane”

*Looking at man*
Man: “Leave me alone”

*Looking at persona*
Persona: “We’ll never be alone… never”

*Looking at man*
Man: “No!” (echoes)

*Changes to both but man is alone*

END.

Continuity Editing

Here are the three aspects of continuity editing...

180 Degree Rule

The 180 Degree Rule is the set-up of a camera during a conversation between two people in a piece of film which makes it seem as if they are talking to each other. The camera may only be placed along an invisible arch on one side of the characters. This affect makes it seem like the characters are addressing each other even when the camera is only on one of the characters...

Match on Action

Match on Action is when an action of a character in a piece of film is continuously taken throughout several shots at different angles. In the image below, the man is outside the room and trying to open the door with his card. The camera then goes over to his card on the sensor which is a completely different camera point but still showing the same action. It then goes back into the room...

Eye-line Matching

Eye-line Matching is when two characters are talking to one another and the camera is at the same height and angle as the character talking. This gives the audience a more relatable look at the characters and therefore brings them into the film more...

The Solus Character Representation

This is the mind-map my group and I made when we were exploring our characters in The Solus. We decided on only having one character but with a split personality, one evil, one good. He talks to himself in The Solus and both characters look the same but with small differences. For instance, both are in a shirt and tie but the persona (the evil one) has his tie loosened and his shirt unbuttoned, the normal one is tidy. We really wanted to make the persona look like a mad version of the main character and so thought of roughing his hair up a little and maybe blood stains but we never did the blood in the end. Both characters came out really well but we could have been done better if we had more time...

Sound

Sound is very important in media. Without sound, radio would be pointless, films would be stuck in the early 1900's and music would be dead. Sound is most definitely needed in the world of media today and especially in filming and television but what types of sounds are used? I will now go through a list of all types of sound that are included in film and TV...

Soundtrack - All music that has been recorded for the film/TV program

Theme Music - A recurrent melody (usually at the start or the end of a sequence)

Sound Effects - Artificial sound (booms, bangs and zooms etc.)

Ambient Sound - Surrounding sound

Dialogue - Speech

Voice Over - Narration (when a character's speech is heard but is not talking in the scene)

Direct Address - When characters speak directly to the camera

Diegetic Sound - Any sound with a source within the world of the film/TV program (characters can hear it)

Non-diegetic Sound - Opposite of above (e.g. voice overs and music etc.)

Sound Bridges - Sounds that bridge from one scene to another to keep it continuous

Parallel Sound - Sound that complements the scene

Contraputal Sound - Opposite of above

The 5 Elements of Mise En Scene

Camera Shots: A Beginners Video

 

Tags

I will be using 6 different tags on this blog:

General - basic background information

Preliminary Task - everything to do with the creation of my group's preliminary task

Research - looking into the media industry and it's history etc.

Planning - the planning towards my final 

Construction - the process of creating the final

Evaluation - the final and the evaluations of the final

Group Dynamics

Hello, this blog is for my AS media portfolio in my first year at Thomas Clarkson Academy sixth form. On this blog I will be producing multiple posts on what I have learned about the forever growing world of media. Everything I do in and out of the classroom will be recorded onto this blog and I will make the greatest effort in producing posts of all kind such as videos, text and images and maybe even the odd animation. I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I plan too,

Ryan Clarke, media student

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