"The Magic of Film: Techniques and Trends
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The document outlines the process of filmmaking, which includes pre-production, production, and post-production stages, detailing tasks such as scriptwriting, casting, shooting, and editing. It also emphasizes the roles of key contributors like the production designer and highlights technical aspects such as sound recording and cinematography. The final section covers post-production steps, including video editing, visual effects, and sound design.
"The Magic of Film: Techniques and Trends
- 2. What is Film? • Thin flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce photographs or motion pictures.
- 3. Movie: a Cinema Film • a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.
- 5. FILM MAKING Filmmaking is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through screenwriting, casting, shooting, sound recording and reproduction, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition.
- 6. FILM LANGUAGE In a good film, the audience understands the story that the filmmaker is trying to show them, and feels what the filmmaker means them to feel. To be a successful filmmaker, you need to use different techniques to make sure this happens. You need to know what will happen if you frame a shot in a particular way; how you can use sound to help show what’s going on, and how to edit your shots together in sequences that build tension or emotion.
- 7. Who is the Captain of the Ship?
- 9. A Film Doesn’t complete without this man?
- 11. Production Designer Production designers are responsible for the visual concept of a film, television or theatre production. They identify a design style for sets, locations, graphics, props, lighting, camera angles and costumes, while working closely with the director and producer.
- 13. The process of Film Making
- 14. The filmmaking process step by step: When you make a film, you need to follow an organized filmmaking process. It’s best to think of it as three distinct stages: • PRE-PRODUCTION planning and getting ready to film. • PRODUCTION filming • POST-PRODUCTION completing the film and getting it ready to show.
- 15. STEPS OF PRE-PRODUCTION • Concept • Outline/one liner • Script and screenplay • Storyboard • Finance/budget • Tech scout/finding crew • Location scout/finding locations • Casting • Production design
- 16. Concept This is where you develop your story, its structure, and plot points. Ideas often are drawn from personal experiences or ripped from the headlines. Maybe it’s a story you were told as a child, or a product of your own wild imagination.
- 17. Script the dialogues or voice overs in the entire film Screenplay Every thing or any action which audience is gonna watch on the screen is screenplay
- 18. Storyboard A visual representation of each scene in your film, your storyboards can illustrate character placement, blocking, lighting positions, focal length, and other notes.
- 19. Tech Scout The purpose of the tech scout is for the director to visit each and every location with the heads of each department and explain precisely what each shot will entail: where the camera will be, details of camera movement, what the actors will be doing, and what the look of the scene will be.
- 20. Location scout: You may need to tailor your storyboards to your location or vice-versa, so finding them early is key. Many hands-on producers & directors may want to do this themselves, but often the smartest thing to do is hire a professional location scout who already has locales in mind or knows how to find original ones perfect for your script.
- 21. Production Design: How will the film been displayed on the screen.
- 22. PRODUCTION When pre-production is done and the director, producer satisfied with the pre-work the they start shooting film
- 23. Things Essential in Production: • Lights • Sound (live recorded sound/ ADR) • Cinematography • Casting/acting
- 24. Video Lights Four Common Types of Film Lights 1. Tungsten (Quartz Halogen/Tungsten Halogen) 2. HMI (Hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide) 3. Fluorescent 4. LED (light emitting diode) Tungsten Fluorescent HMI LED
- 25. Sound Recorder Following types of devices used in Live sound recording: • Zoom H1m Device • Boom Mic • Wireless Microphones • Windshields
- 27. Casting : Types of Characters • Protagonist the leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel, etc.
- 28. • Antagonist a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
- 29. Camera angles and shots • Medium shot • Closeup shot • Long shot • The dutch shot • Low angle • High angle • Extreme closeup • Over the shoulder • Point of view shot
- 30. POST-PRODUCTION The post production process is the final part of producing a podcast, radio show, film or other type of multi-step project with a "finishing step." This is where the final piece is looked at and final changes are made that will refine or correct the production process. Steps such as editing, correction, and optimization are often categorized as post-production steps.
- 31. STEPS OF POST-PRODUCTION • Video editing • Compositing Color grading Chroma Keying Motion graphics Visual effects • ADR/ sync • Foley • Sound designing
- 32. Video editing Video editing is the manipulation and arrangement of video shots. Video editing is used to structure and present all video information, including films and television shows.
- 33. Compositing Compositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene.
- 34. Color grading Color grading is the process of improving the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices.
- 35. Motion graphics Motion graphics are pieces of digital footage or animation which create the illusion of motion or rotation.
- 36. Visual effects is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live action shot in film making. Visual effects
- 37. . Foley Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to film, video, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality. These reproduced sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass.
- 38. Automated Dialog Replacement (ADR) is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality. ADR
- 39. I would like to take this opportunity to for your patience to watch and understand