Three point lighting

 

The key light, as the name suggests, shines directly upon the subject and serves as its principal illuminator; more than anything else, the strength, colour and angle of the key determines the shot's overall lighting design.

The fill light also shines on the subject, but from a side angle relative to the key and is often placed at a lower position than the key (about at the level of the subject's face). It balances the key by illuminating shaded surfaces, and lessening or eliminating chiaroscuro effects, such as the shadow cast by a person's nose upon the rest of the face.

The back light (a.k.a. the rim, hair, or shoulder light) shines on the subject from behind, often (but not necessarily) to one side or the other. It gives the subject a rim of light, serving to separate the subject from the background and highlighting contours.

New Character

(Intro space shuttle launches mixed with growing up)
Our character is an ordinary teenager, he deals with the everyday problems, acne, girl troubles and the occasional xbox malfunction. One day he finds a letter has been posted to him from NASA asking him to meet him, he goes and finds out his design concept he drew for a rocket ship when he was 7 has been produced and very successfull, he is told he is set to make millions of pounds. He loves his new life, he meets celebrities etc. In the penultament scene in the movie the character is asked to make another concept better then the first. He reveals a carefully dran model with scientifically accurate results, findings and equations, to which the scientists think is a terrible idea. He is made a laughing stock and lives out the rest of his life with his money in Vietnam, because he likes the cusine.


The character is socially awkward, he comes alive during the night talking to his virtual friends. Sleeps during school and is a general loser. His beliefs include: -Jedism, he is better then the rest of the worlds population and you should never have chocolate cereal for breakfast.


Luke 'Starkiller' Michaelson.

Character profile

My character: shooter Mcgavin
Shooter Mcgavin is a male confindent golfer. From the film you do not get the location of where he is from or where he lives currently. But you do learn a lot about his personality, some may say he is over confident,his nickname relfecting his personality perfectly. He is very aggresive with his golf and is determined to win using any methods possible. for example he hires a hitman to run over happy gilmore so he could win the golf tournament.

opening two minutes of a feauture film

Characters
Lester (American Beauty)
The lead character of the film, 'American Beauty' is Lester. The movie starts with the main character narrating as he would get up and ready for work. it also spoke of how he would die soon, this gets the audience interested in how and what would happen when he did.  From the opening sequence we can tell that his relationship with his wife and daughter has become very distant and un-passionate, you can tell the un-passionate relationship because he was jerking off in the shower and they never hug or kissed. You can see that the wife is in charge and runs the house, as she unlike her husband is very organized, neat and tidy, which you can tell by looking at the appearance of their house and garden. Lester say's that the highlight of his day was "jerking off in the shower" this suggesting his life is very dull and boring. also that him and his wife are rarely intimate.

Character: Jerry McGuire
In the first few minutes it show's Jerry as being a slick cut business man, who takes business and his career very seriously. He has a slick hair style with his hair gelled back with a slick cut suit on.  From his appearance he seems to be rather wealthy and well-known, he has 72 sporting clients in a huge multi-million maybe billion company. His confidence could be seen as arrogance but he has reason to be over confident when dealing with 72 sporting clients and he receives over 250 phone calls a day. However even though his lifestyle seems to be great, and his career is rocketing, he still seems to be lacking something in life and we witness him looking upset because one of his sporting clients would not sign a card because it was not a certain kind. This suggests Jerry is upset because it seems as so its all about money now and not the sport's.

Comparing both characters, they seem like complete opposites,Both of their lifestyles are very different from each others. Lester who is shy and un-confident and lacks something from life. where as Jerry has a lot of confidence and seems successful in his job but we are not to sure about his love life. However both seem to be unsatisfied from life, and appear to be unhappy.

Ken 
The landlord of 'The Grapes'. From the opening ken is singing a jolly song, even when he is cleaning the bathroom. Ken is then seen refilling an expensive brandy with a cheaper version, this suggesting he is a cheap man. He seems a very jolly man and enjoys his profession. As a character ken seems to be a perfect British landlord.

Hello everyone

Well hello everyone :) this is just a welcome message to any one that ends up on my blog.

Just to let people know about me, i am currently attending sixth form at wymondham high, and this is part of my media studies project.

In my first lesson i learnt many things, this consisted of "mise en scene" this meaning what is put into a scene or frame. I also learnt the 5 elements of mise en scene.

1.settings and props
2.costumes, hair and makeup
3.facial expressions and body language
4.lighting and color
5.positioning if characters/ objects within the frame

also the fact that simple things ranging from facial expressions to settings and props can drastically change the viewers opinion of the movie. these simple thing's can make a movie a hit or a disaster.