A Hip Hop Montage is fast moving and fast cutting-used in film to portray a complex action through a rapid series of simple actions in fast motion, sound is added or can be used for the filming its self. The technique was given its name firstly by Darren Aronofsky who used this in his films Pi and Requiem for a Dream. The technique was also used in "Hot Fuzz" which is one of my inspiration for my title sequence.
This is the Hip Hop montage from "Hot Fuzz"
Planning our Hip Hop Montage:
We watched other peoples Hip Hop Montages and the decided to do our's of Myself making a cup of tea, we all helped with the filming equally and editing. We used the schools camera and apple mac to film and edit out hip hop montage.
Planning our Preliminary Task
Apon planning our Preliminary Task Jenny, Vincent, Alex, and Myself had to use different camera angles and making sure everyone in the group got a chance to film. We used the schools media departments camera to film and the schools Apple mac computer to edit.
Story Line
The story line is that there are two school girls (Jenny and Myself) who are talking about a celebrity that we are both obsess with, the teacher (Vincent) tells them to be quite and soon after this there is a knock on the door-which is the school secretary (Alex) who is showing the celebrity both the girls like (Christy) round. The girls are extremely excited to see him as one of the girls shouts "your my biggest fan" and then turns into a fan.
Introduction:
In this blog I am going to be talking about the different camera techniques used in films, I will also be looking at how camera techniques are used in comedy.
Extreme Long Shots An extreme long shot is mostly a lot of landscapes, It is often used at the beginning of a scene or a film to show the audience the setting of the film/scene. It can also be called an establishing shot. Long Shot
A long shot also contains landscape but gives the audience a more detailed view of the setting. A long shot may show the audience the building where the scene or an action will take place.
Full Shot
A full shot shows you the characters. A full shot shows the audience the relationship each of the characters have with each others, they also can see what the characters look like and the mise-en-scene that has been used.
Mid-Shot
A mid-shot shows the character/characters' from the waist up. From this shot, the audience can see the characters' faces more clearly as well as their interaction with other characters and facial expressions.
Close ups
A close up shot is just one characters' face. This shows the audience the actor's emotions and also allows them to feel what the character is feeling.
Extreme Close ups
An extreme close up is just one part of a character's face or an object. This is mostly used in horror films. This type of shot creates an intense mood and provides interaction between the audience and the characters'.
This is an example of an extreme close up used in opening sequences, this film "SE7EN" is a horror film and as extreme close ups are primarily used in horror films it works well here.
Camera Angles used in Comedy:
In the film "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" (2006) they use many different camera angles, I feel that the camera angles they use define the film as a comedy. I am going to try like this film to show my camera angles in the way that you can clearly see that the film is an comedy-even in the opening sequence.
