Revisiting an Old Friend - Tute 3

This week we had to find out what certain abbreviations meant, however, I am into film, and even studied film at High School, and thus didn't really have to research into it, as I know what they mean.

VLS/WS - Very Long Shot/Wide Shot.
LS - Long Shot
MLS - Medium Long Shot
MS - Medium Shot (Mid Shot)
MCU - Medium Close-Up
CU - Close-Up
BCU- Big Close-Up (I've never heard of this before, but thanks to this site for informing me)
ECU - Extreme Close-Up

Now I got taught a slightly different way, and while in effect it doesn't matter, the way I use is much rounder, flows better, and avoids the horrible sounding 'Big Close Up'.

Extreme Long Shot
Long Shot
Medium Long Shot
Medium Shot
Medium Close-Up
Close-Up
Extreme Close-Up

This flows better, and uses common terms, There is one less shot, but doesn't really matter, You could always just say 'Head Shot' which works, and what I got taught.

and then there's
POV - Point of View
OTS - Over the Shoulder (or OSS- Over Shoulder Shot)
TS - Two Shot (and thus Three Shot, Four Shot, etc.)

Man I am a film nerrrrrd. However, these are merely irrelevant differences.
So I shall give you some examples.
Extreme Close Up:
ECU's, and CU for that matter, show great detail and are frequently underused in films. A common ECU/CU shot would be a shot that shows the mouth of a person talking on a telephone. This shot can be effectively used to disguise the person on the phone. Another commonly used ECU shot is that of the eye, especially after waking up, an example of an elephant is shown to the left.
Source.


Mid Shot
The mid shot, properly called a Medium Shot, generally shows the subject from the hips up, this shot captures general facial expressions, as well as hand gestures. This shot is very common, and say, a person texting, is most likely to be represented in a mid shot. An example of this shot is pictured right. Hmmm.... Gossip Girl.....

Source.

Wide Shot/...
Wide Shots/Long Shots/Full Shot is generally a shot that shows the whole body, to which fills up most the screen. They can be used to show the surroundings of the character/s. An example of a Long Shot is left, it is my photo that I have uploaded. However, it should be noted that this shot is slightly further out than a true long shot.

Hello... Convergance - Tute 2

Morning upper east siders, Mildy Witty Blog Blog Writer man here.... Not quite as catchy as Gossip Girl... But still. Four cool technolgies for you.
1. A clock radio. So you know what a clock is, and you know what a radio is. So now both are in one! wow... if only it was an alarm clock too. What? it is. Man I'm an idiot.

(Source:http://gizmodo.com/253351/sony-clock-radio-has-integrated-spy-cam)
Sorry about that....
I'll have a cooler one next I promise...
2: iPhone













I don't think I should really have to explain this one... its an i... with a phone....

Then theres....
3. Black Berry. (Technological Device, not fruit thingy)











Just like a super phone like the iPhone. So you know how you have normal people like you, and then theres superheroes like Spider-man, Captain America, Hawkeye, me. Well my phone is more like the normal crap one, and the iPhone and Blackberry are more like the me-esque superhereo ones. Also. I'm not going to link to other pages because you should know about these by now, plus I'm all intruiged for the next one.

4. Flying Alarm Clock

So what I gather from this, is that once your alarm sounds, the top separates from the clock part, and to stop the annoying noise that the alarm, and the whizzing of the helicopteresque alarm bit is making, is to catch the flying thingy. Or, you can just sleep with your shotgun, and when your 7am alarm goes off on a Thursday morning due to the annoyingly timed lecture you need to go to, you can just shoot it down.

Oh and by 'sleep with your shotgun' I mean sleep with it next to you... nothing sexual or anything.
Also: by 'you can just shoot it down', I mean shoot it with the shotgun, not 'shoot it down' by tormenting, 'You're fat.' 'Nobody likes you' etc.

You can read more about it here or click here to view a photo of a cat.


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