Monday, 30 November 2015

Western Credits

Western Credits - Experiment

Task: Use Adobe Premiere and (try to) imitate the credits for the movie  
"The Good, The Bad and  The Ugly."


Process
1: First, we were showed the how to use certain features on Adobe Premier, such as creating titles, the use of colour matte, background removal, and how to utilise key frames.

Colour matte: Create a blank sequence, create a colour matte (with colour of our choice), and paste video (in this a background-less explosion) on top.

Key Frames: We placed key frames in order to set different values for our images, in this case of cowboys, to make them do (un)professional actions, like loop around the screen and disappear and reappear again. Everyone had their own unique sequence. The values we played with also made the cowboy do things like rotate, move up and down, as well as change in size and dimension. *wheeeeee*

2: In this step, we were taught how to added a title to our video, which involved the use of key frames once more in order to make them appear flashy interesting. *pretty colours ><*

3: Lastly, we were given some sound to play with. This involved, our new best friend, key frames once more. We added a "YEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH HAAWWWWWWWW" sound to our video, to make it seem like the cowboy was screaming as he did various manoeuvres across our screens. We were taught to utilise key frames in many ways, such as lowering and raising the volume to make it seem like the sound was really coming from the cowboy. Well, we tried to, anyway. 

Oh, and I'd lower my volume a little if I were you.

Enjoy :)



Sunday, 29 November 2015

DEXTER - Denotation and Connotation

DEXTER

    "Dexter is an American television crime drama mystery series. Set in Miami, the series centres on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a blood splatter pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department who also leads a secret life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system." - Wikipedia

    Task: Make a table and list some of denotations and connotations from Dexter's film opening/credit scene.

    Denotation: The literal meaning of something, regardless of what the shot/situation suggests; first level analysis, what the viewers can see.

    Connotation: An idea or emotion which the shot/situation suggests; second level of analysis, what the viewers get from the shot/situation.

    Below is the clip in which we used for our analysis :)