Techniques

Whip pan/Whip Cut: The camera is on one scene and to go to the next it whips creating a spinning motion. 

Whip Zoom Look: Zooming in fast into a subject.

Search Up: This is a technique that starts at the subjects feet and makes its way to the subjects face. 

Back to Front: The camera is focused in on something happening in the background and changes its  focus to something closer to the camera.

Focus Out/Pass out: This is when the camera blurs out to a fade to black. This is somewhat like the subject passing out.

Focus Transition: This is when the lighting is altered to create a focus in effect. An example would be someone waking up to a really bright light that slowly dims. 

Overexpose Fade: When the scene gradually becomes overly exposed to the point that the image is too bright.

Underexpose Fade: When the scene gradually becomes under exposed to the point that the image is too dark.

Ceiling Twist: When the camera is pointing upward toward an object of interest and rotates. 

Shifting Angle: When the camera is tilted back and forth between scenes. 

Sleepover: A birds eye view looking down onto the subject.  

Plot and Story

When you think of Story and Plot you think of them as the same thing. Many people make this mistake. They are very different things. After reading the article "Martin Scorsese Breaks Down the Differences between Story and Plot" and watching the videos attached, I have learned the difference. Scorsese starts to explain the difference in the first attached video. He describes how he enjoys story over plot because when he watched major pictures over and over the characters are what draws him in. Scorsese says that a good way to tell a good story is with your camera movement and that it becomes more interesting to him. We can predict that any famous director like Scorsese would say Story over Plot because of the way they look at movies. They think this because they think that photography and soundtrack is what draws in the audience. Throughout this article they basically give different definitions and examples of Plot and Story. My favorite description is very short and simple to understand.

Plot is what happens 

Story is why it happened and how

In my own opinion I agree with Scorsese. Story is more important than Plot. The reason i think that is because I am a film maker. In the eyes of someone who is not a film maker, they are the same thing.

Final Project

I really loved this project! Some of these strands are new so it was fun to research them and figure out what they are about. I am going into Convergence next year! Making a design that shows what I'm apart of was fun and really let me express myself and it connected to me.

Personal Logo

I loved this project because i got to make something I'm going to use the rest of my life! The reasoning for the owl is because i work for Origami Owl. It is a Jewelry line that me and my mom work for. The main theme of Origami Owl is Owls, pink, and Teal! I really loved making this logo and describing my business. I took the eyes outside of the box to give it a little edge and uniqueness. Chevron is my favorite and i needed to incorporate it!

Kerning Game

I just got a 100% on this font during this cool Kerning Game that my teacher showed me! What is Kerning? Kerning is when you adjust the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of text to be printed. It was a really good learning experience! Go check it out!

Emagine

Emagine was so much fun! Dressing up like we were going to the Oscars was great! I really loved the video sections. My favorite was "The Wall." I enjoyed cheering my fellow students on. Can't wait for next year!

Movie Poster

I used Saul Bass as inspiration to create this 1970s movie poster into a contemporary piece of art. The things that needed to be in my poster were 2-3 things. I used 3 things which are the tree, the tire swing, and the shadowed over girl. These 3 things describe the movie because the movie's main character is a little girl who spends her time outside because she's a tom boy. Her dad is a lawyer who is defending a black man and getting a lot of grief because of it. Go watch the movie and see what happens! Another guide line was using 3-5 colors. Two of which had to be black and white. My colors are Black, White, Brown, and a Tan color. Below is a Saul Bass poster for StarWars. I wish he had done one on the 1970s film How to Kill a Mockingbird like i did! Instead i found a poster (below) that used a showed person just like me. The poster below has 2 bright colors unlike me who used neutral colors to give it more of a simple look. I loved this project and it really helped me with my creativity!