Specialised Area (cinematographer)

My roles within production consisted of cinematographer, director, and I created the soundtrack to play over our opening. This blog will briefly explain what I did within the role of cinematographer and how I learnt through the process and how I developed the end product.

Recording Hardware:
We used - DSLR camera - 

Before starting media studies, I had never properly used a recording camera before so I had to learn the different aspects of it. We underwent activities as a class using these cameras such as a swede and prelim. With both activities I had the role of cinematographer, and carried this role onto our actual media product. I mostly learnt the basics through trial and error. Through the entire process of filming our opening, I learnt new things along the way. It allowed me to play around with the depth of field and manual focus creating very professional scenic shots. For the actual making of our production, I had the role of  the cinematropher so learning about the DSLR camera was vital. It was important that I understood various different terminology and knew how to apply this terminology. I learnt various bits through trial and error. An example of this is lighting - due to that fact we shot our film opening over different days, the lighting was different. I didn't pay much notice to lighting as the weather was relatively similar, but in fact we soon found our that lighting had a massive affect. There was in fact a clear difference in lighting. So I quickly learnt how to change the lighting to look right. I also quickly picked up more about depth of field and came to grips with what looks affective and what doesn't. I found that because depth of field has an impact on both the aesthetic and technical quality of a picture.



Sometimes you’ll want to use an extensive depth of field in order to keep everything sharp. A classic example is when you’re photographing a landscape, where generally the most desirable outcome is to capture detail from the foreground to the horizon.Other times, a shallow depth of field will be preferable. It enables you to blur background and foreground details, causing distractions to melt away and allowing you to direct viewers to the focal point in a picture.