Hani's AS Media Blog

  Woody Allen's “Another Woman”  begins with a shot that is the whole movie in miniature.  A woman  appears at the far end of a dark hallway and strides toward the camera, passing in and out of light. She is wearing a long coat, and she puts a scarf around her shoulders as she walks. She's a woman who knows where she's going. We don't get a good look at her until she moves into medium close-up, adjusts an earring and comes face to face with herself in the mirror. Her reflection is obscured from our point of view, but for a moment we see her look directly into her own eyes.  The opening shot is accompanied by Marion's voiceover, placing us inside her head from the start: "If someone had asked me when I reached my fifties to assess my life, I would have said that I had achieved a decent measure of fulfillment both personally and professionally. Beyond that, I would say, I do n't choose to delve. Not that I was afraid of uncovering some dark side of my charact...

 

 

 Our storyboard has been completed! !

  WHO INVENTED CINEMA? No one person invented cinema. However, in 1891 the Edison Company successfully demonstrated a prototype of the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. The first public Kinetoscope demonstration took place in 1893. By 1894 the Kinetoscope was a commercial success, with public parlours established around the world. The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumiere Brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France. They used a device of their own making, the Cinematographe, which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one. WHAT WERE EARLY FILMS LIKE? At first, films were very short, sometimes only a few minutes or less. They were shown at fairgrounds, music halls, or anywhere a screen could be set up and a room darkened. Subjects included local scenes and activities, views of foreign lands, short comedies and newsworthy events. The films were accompanied by lectures, m...

Team meeting on the discussion for the storyboard!

  What are codes? Codes are sign systems that generate meaning. Technical and symbolic codes are the two types of codes that exist. Technical codes refer to all of the different ways that equipment is used to tell a storey in a media text, such as camera work in a film. Symbolic codes reveal what lies beneath the visible surface.  A character's actions, for example, reveal how he or she is feeling. Music, for example, is both technological and symbolic, so it falls into both categories. What are conventions? Conventions are ways of doing things that are widely accepted. In any medium, there are general conventions, such as using interviewee quotes in a print article, but there are also genre-specific conventions. In media studies, how do codes and conventions apply? In any study of genre, codes and conventions go hand in hand; it's not enough to talk about a technical code like camera work without also talking about how it's used in the genre. The technical code of lighting...

Director and Camera Man Operator -  Shayan Shahid Producer and Writer - Omer Afzaal  Editor and Assistant Director - Romaisa Hassan  Storyboard writer and Assistant Producer - UmmeHani Actors- Dawar Javad, Yousaf Abbas, and Ahmad Hassan

We finalised our Plan and decided to make a film opening about An intelligence officer named agent Gizem who was both born and raised in America but has a background of turkey as his family is from there. He joined the Intelligence Bureau at the age of 18 and has been working there ever since. he is known to be a very loyal and trustworthy person and he gets the job done too for the organisation he has been working for. but we see in the film opening he gets betrayed by one of his colleagues, Aaron whos an American agent   we planned our mis-en-scene and decided to film one of our scenes at the park and the other at an abandoned basement

 The relationship between shots and the process by which they are combined is referred to as editing. It's necessary for the construction of narrative space and the establishment of narrative time. Graphic, rhythmic, spatial, and/or temporal relationships may exist between shots. Filmmakers and editors may work toward a variety of objectives. Commercial cinema has traditionally preferred the continuity system, or the creation of a rational, continuous narrative that allows the viewer to easily and comfortably suspend disbelief. Filmmakers may also use editing to elicit our intellectual participation or to draw our attention to their work in a reflexive way. GRAPHIC MATCH Graphic matches , or  match cuts , are useful in relating two otherwise disconnected scenes, or in helping to establish a relationship between two scenes.  By ending one shot with a frame containing the same compositional elements (shape, color, size, etc.) as the beginning frame of the next shot, a conne...

  SHOT SIZE Shot size refers to how far away the camera is from a subject. There are six basic shot sizes: Extreme long shot .  Establishing shots are often used at the beginning of scenes to establish the setting. At the beginning of a film, for example, you might see an extreme long shot of a city or rolling hills. Then, we cut to a closer shot of a street, building and finally the character inside. Long shot .  A long shot usually still shows a great deal of background, characters are visible but may not be close enough to be recognisable. Full shot .  A full shot shows characters from head to toe. Mid shot .  A midshot shows the characters from the waist up. Close up .  The close up is one of the most commonly used shot sizes in film and television, usually showing a character’s face. Extreme close up .  Extreme close ups are usually an attempt to draw the viewer’s attention to a particular detail. For example, the director may choose to cur from a...