A shot reverse shot is a technique used when a character is looking (possibly talking) to another character and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Friday, 19 February 2010
Film Ideas
During the holidays (Friday 19th February) Piyal, Matty and I met up at Cafe Nero to discuss ideas for our film. Firstly we went through all the different types of genres there are which we thought were possible to do and also which we'd like to do.
-SciFi, relies too much on technical skills that we are not sure that we have. Also we don't have that much knowledge between us about this particular genre.
-Westerns, we feel we dont have the right area to film this in or the money for the costumes that are needed.
-Musicals, none of us are fond of this genre and to make it look and sound good we would need to a big cast of singers and dancers which we do not have access to.
-War, again like western we do not have the right sort of set as we would need to make one from scratch and we would also need a lot of costumes which are expensive.
We then had the idea of doing a con-man style production. This was discussed to be our favoured idea at the time. We wanted our film to be aimed at a target audience of 15 to 28 year olds as we have the most knowledge of this age range.
-SciFi, relies too much on technical skills that we are not sure that we have. Also we don't have that much knowledge between us about this particular genre.
-Westerns, we feel we dont have the right area to film this in or the money for the costumes that are needed.
-Musicals, none of us are fond of this genre and to make it look and sound good we would need to a big cast of singers and dancers which we do not have access to.
-War, again like western we do not have the right sort of set as we would need to make one from scratch and we would also need a lot of costumes which are expensive.
We then had the idea of doing a con-man style production. This was discussed to be our favoured idea at the time. We wanted our film to be aimed at a target audience of 15 to 28 year olds as we have the most knowledge of this age range.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
How Are Hospital Staff Represented In the Opening of Bodies
Immediately from the start of this episode we get a sense of seriousness with the black vignette and very deep music in the background. We then go straight into a collecting of zoom transition shots (medium shot, close-up and extreme close up) getting closer to the new doctor (Rob Lake) who looks very serious. Our response to this as an audience automatically makes us focus and engage with the text as it is very fast paced. Now we have been introduced to the main character we then have a front view tracking shot of him walking down the corridor past patients with non-diagetic music still playing in the background.
We then start to get introduced to the other characters. We get a short time to see a couple of the characters as they have to unlock the door to let him through into the gynaecology ward. They are viewing Rob on a high angle shot through the security camera. This gives the audience the impression they have a higher authority than the new doctor. There is lots of diagetic noise around the hospital making it seem busy. As he comes through the doors he has brief joke with the nurses and then jokes with the trainee doctor Maya who is looking in her doctors journal saying “what would we do without it”, this shows Maya has a level of incompetence and foreshadows the mistake that she is going to make later on.
Rob is then introduced to Roger his boss by Sister Donna Rix. They all then go on rounds to view the patients they are going to operate on. One patient is prioritised to first on the list as they are diabetic, though as this information is transferred onto the new order list Maya types it incorrectly and a woman who was struggling to get pregnant is almost made infertile. Non-diagetic music is played from the moment the mistake was made until the moment they discover it. During this period we are shown a tracking shot of the order list as it is passed from person to person. This alerts the audience to what has happened and also creates tension. After the surgery Rob goes to speak to Maya asking her why she didn’t check the list and her response was “shit happens”.
Later on in the episode we get more in depth into the personalities of the doctors. Roger dumps a dying woman onto Maya the least experienced doctor out of the team whilst he goes to a presentation explaining how the hospital could save more lives. Maya then calls Rob to ask for help as the woman is struggling to breath and as he comes to help Maya disappears. This emphasises the fact that Maya does not want to take on any responsibility and shows that Roger doesn’t want any bad reputation for having someone die under his care. Rob and Sister Rix are the only people left working on the patient and neither of them has the skills necessary to help the patient and there are no other doctors around that could help them. Rob tries what he could but in the end the woman dies. Again during this scene there is the same non-diagetic music playing in the background as before to create added tension. There is a black out transition at the end of this scene to show a time lapse, this is different to the other transitions we have seen throughout the episode as we have been used to starting new scenes with somebody entering through a door.
From the first 30 minutes we can tell this programme is aimed at a young to middle aged audience as it is quite a raw drama, containing lots of swearing, rude jokes and sexual scenes. There is lots of tension created throughout the episode which is often eased off by slight comedy. The doctors seem relatively normal though at the same time you wouldn’t really want to be treated by any of them as we tend to see the worst of them through deaths of patients, lack of interest and dirty jokes.
We then start to get introduced to the other characters. We get a short time to see a couple of the characters as they have to unlock the door to let him through into the gynaecology ward. They are viewing Rob on a high angle shot through the security camera. This gives the audience the impression they have a higher authority than the new doctor. There is lots of diagetic noise around the hospital making it seem busy. As he comes through the doors he has brief joke with the nurses and then jokes with the trainee doctor Maya who is looking in her doctors journal saying “what would we do without it”, this shows Maya has a level of incompetence and foreshadows the mistake that she is going to make later on.
Rob is then introduced to Roger his boss by Sister Donna Rix. They all then go on rounds to view the patients they are going to operate on. One patient is prioritised to first on the list as they are diabetic, though as this information is transferred onto the new order list Maya types it incorrectly and a woman who was struggling to get pregnant is almost made infertile. Non-diagetic music is played from the moment the mistake was made until the moment they discover it. During this period we are shown a tracking shot of the order list as it is passed from person to person. This alerts the audience to what has happened and also creates tension. After the surgery Rob goes to speak to Maya asking her why she didn’t check the list and her response was “shit happens”.
Later on in the episode we get more in depth into the personalities of the doctors. Roger dumps a dying woman onto Maya the least experienced doctor out of the team whilst he goes to a presentation explaining how the hospital could save more lives. Maya then calls Rob to ask for help as the woman is struggling to breath and as he comes to help Maya disappears. This emphasises the fact that Maya does not want to take on any responsibility and shows that Roger doesn’t want any bad reputation for having someone die under his care. Rob and Sister Rix are the only people left working on the patient and neither of them has the skills necessary to help the patient and there are no other doctors around that could help them. Rob tries what he could but in the end the woman dies. Again during this scene there is the same non-diagetic music playing in the background as before to create added tension. There is a black out transition at the end of this scene to show a time lapse, this is different to the other transitions we have seen throughout the episode as we have been used to starting new scenes with somebody entering through a door.
From the first 30 minutes we can tell this programme is aimed at a young to middle aged audience as it is quite a raw drama, containing lots of swearing, rude jokes and sexual scenes. There is lots of tension created throughout the episode which is often eased off by slight comedy. The doctors seem relatively normal though at the same time you wouldn’t really want to be treated by any of them as we tend to see the worst of them through deaths of patients, lack of interest and dirty jokes.
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