10/11/10 - Reading Lights?

In this lesson we discussed lighting and it's effects, we were given a little segment of a director name Federico Fellini.

"Light is everything. It expresses ideology, emotion, colour, depth, style. I can efface, narrate, describe. With the right lighting, the ugliest face, the most idiotic expression can radiate with beauty or intelligence."

- Federico Fellini

We looked a clips from Vera Drake and Collateral and discussed how the use of lighting made us feel about the scene and what you would think the theme of the movie is and it''s setting just through it's lighting. I also learnt about 'The Male Gaze' and how they use lighting to show that the male is in control and how the female is subservient to him, under control in a way.

To conclude I had to write a paragraph on light is used to create meaning which is below;

"Light is a very important tool in film and photography. It can be used to express the  emotion and ideology of a character or the background/setting itself. For example when low lighting is used on a character it may represent evil thoughts or a mysterious personality. It can also be used as a narration tool,  it can be used to assist the acting in getting the emotions and mood of the scene across to their audience."

- Nicholas Ajagbe

Missed Lesson - 29/09/10

Today I was not able to make it to my media lesson due to having a life drawing session so I thought I would have a quick look at WCS Media blog which has been set up by our teacher with a few things here and there to help us out on our way. I found this image which will be very helpful when I will be recording and will need to use different camera angles, it basically has many different camera angles and labels them so that I can distinguish between them.

- Nicholas Ajagbe

Inspiration...maybe...

Abandoned final version from Amin Team3 on Vimeo.
This is an example of what i could produce as my final piece for the coursework, the students who created this had a very similar brief to me so this could be used as inspiration for what i may produce.
- Nicholas Ajagbe

Media Lesson - 22/09/10

In today’s lesson Sir briefly went over how the marks for the coursework we are about to start will be spread out which also indirectly informed me on which parts of the coursework I should focus on the most. He showed us a few examples of previous students work comparing them to each other and explaining how they got the mark that they did. Once we had done this we sent away to start up our blogs which is basically where we will log our progress through the course, we were given a bit of time to get used to the feel of blogger and customise them as we wanted to, so far I have been able to change the template by visiting Btemplates and choosing one from there. I've also added widgets such a the aquarium which is located on the right hand side of my blog, just added it to add a little personality to my blog.

The main objective my media coursework is to create the first 2 minutes of a feature film with the titles included,  what sir stressed that I felt was important was that I’m going to be marked for the technical ability used to create the first 2 minutes of the film and not the acting that will be involved so I should try and fit as many different camera angles and tricks of the trade as possible in order to receive maximum marks.

- Nicholas Ajagbe