Developing a Mood Board

A mood board which sometimes called an inspirational board is a print or screen document that contains images, texts, patterns and sometimes objects. The main goal of mood boards is to focus on the design process. Mood boards are about the atmosphere that the design will create. Although mood boards might have texts, they will…

A Scene of choice: Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning Scene The scene that I've chosen is from Alan Parker's film Mississippi Burning 1988, which won an Oscar for best cinematography. Watching this movie is 2 hours of full entertainment. In this post, I am deconstructing a scene from Mississippi Burning that has three actors Willem Dafoe, Gene Hackman and Kevin Dunn. The…

TK2 Taxi Driver Deconstruction

The scene starts with a medium close-up shot of Travis Bickle while he is in the taxi, and I think Martin Scorsese chose this shot to show Bickle's facial expressions and his enthusiasm to go inside and talk to Betsy ( figure 1). (figure 1) The second shot is a very long one, started tracking…

Reflection on Lenny

  Link to Lenny video   Pre-production: One of the difficulties that we have faced is the lack of communication between group members. I think it was hard because we have never worked with each other before, and the members were allocated randomly by our tutor. Working with different kinds of people could prepare us…

Actor and the Director

After reading The Director and the Actor chapter, I've learned a lot. I was intrigued by some technics that directors use to approach a high level of communication with actors, which they are considered as the most important crew members to the director. There are a couple of points I want to reflect on which…

Sound Design

After reading Chapter 11 of Creating Sound Design, some points caught my attention. I thought these points are either new to me or interesting enough to make me think and compare to previous films that I have watched. One of the points that were included in the reading is Function of Music. There are many…

The Initiative Post: Tools of Measuring Exposure

Lighting is one of the main components to create a cinematic look to the film; it lifts it from looking like a homemade or low budget film to a Hollywood film. Exposure is an element of lighting that can be objectively measured. There are different ways to control light by using some tools that are…

The Expertise Edit

  Link to The Expertise video   Expertise is the first exercise that we used the camera for the first time. We were introduced to a professional camera in order to get familiarised with it to learn the basics of shooting a video. For someone who never handled a camera this exercise might be useful in…

The Abstract / Haiku Edit

Link to the Abstract video In the Abstract video, we've worked as a group, and we used each other's footages. We have faced some problems while shooting and recording sound; some are solvable, others are not. One of the issues is that we started shooting after 5:30 which allows us to have two perfect shots…

(IoT) and the Concept of Privacy

It is not easy to have a definition of privacy. The borders of it are not specified, and what constitutes a privacy violation?. It differs between countries and cultures, and in general, it varies between people's personalities and individuals based on their occupation and position. Besides, defining privacy is getting more complicated within the advanced…