Intro to video camera

We were taught the basics of operating a professional video camera. We learnt what the icons on the veiwfinder display meant, and how to understand them and alter them.
The timecode: 00.00.00.00 the hour, the minute, the second, the frame number (0-24. The camera captures 25 frames per second)

too much gain, too much unnatural light ruins the effect of the shot.

Intro to stills camera

In our intro to stills camera, we learnt several techniques of taking still images.

We learnt about deviding our shots up, in particular 'the rule of thirds', in which you focus on four hot-spots (where the lines intersect) and the different spaces surrounding the lines, and how depending on where the subject of our shot is positioned, it changes the feel of our image. For example; if the image is taken from below, looking up at the subject, we get what is called a 'hero shot' where the subject is put in a position of power and is presented as a 'hero'

Example of a 'Hero Shot'. The subject is placed in a position of power, making the audience feel inferior.

The opposite of a 'hero shot' is a 'god shot', where the subject is put in a position of inferiority and the audience is in a possition of power.

Film Poster

This is my movie poster titled 'The Curse of the Shadow People'. I used a picture i took of a girl leaning on a fence, using the lasso tool I cut her out of the picture. I then found an image of a stone grave, i used the lasso tool to cut the grave out of the image and position the girl so it looked like she was leaning on the grave.

I found an image of a large open grave yard, and set this as the back layer, to serve as my background. The tombstones in the image were very white so I used the burn tool to make them look darker and scarier and more fitting with the theme.

I found an image of a darkened outline of a person in a stereotypical 'zombie' way. The body shape is crooked and opresive, this was perfect to use as 'shadow people'. I copied the image a few times, and pasted several layers. I then transformed each one individually, using transform tools; skew, rotate, scale and flip vertical.

The writing is quite a sinister gothic font and almost faded like a 'shadow' to reflect the title.
The colours are quite dark and nuteral to reflect the theme of a 'shadow', apart fromn the red writing which reflects the colour of blood in a stereotypical horror movie poster way.