Daniel Spencer Film and TV Blog

 BBC News 25th August 2020 At the beginning it shows the camera slowly zooming in and panning towards the presenter. The story is about wearing masks in school. It shows shots of students separated in their classrooms and pans around and then it cuts to the teacher of the classroom discussing the social distancing and how students are allowed to take off their masks as long as they are separated from each other. It then cuts to another shot of Boris Johnson painting on something for some reason, and then he discusses social distancing and restrictions. The next shot is a close up of a school locker angled to show students in the background whilst the reporter talks about the compulsory use of face masks in crowded places in the school. The presenter is Clive Myrie and the reporter is Branwen Jeffreys. Newsreaders and Presenters need to be well enunciated so people can understand them clearly. Field Reporters go out to a location relevant to the news subject, so in this case it was ...

 Types/methods of research: Primary Research Primary research is a type of research which requires yourself or someone else to go directly to the source to recieve information, e.g. Questionnaires, Surveys, Interviews, etc. Secondary Research Examples of secondary research are newspapers, books, film archives, etc. Primary research is effective because it allows you to get the information directly from the source however it does need to be sorted if it isn't digital to be accessible. Secondary research is accessible at any time however you may have to wait for results as they won't be given immediately. Quantitative Research Quantitative research is research which mainly covers anything to do with numbers, scales, charts, percentages, nationalities, demographics, social classes, ages, genders and is useful when collecting large quantities of information . Qualitative Research Qualitative research is different to quantitative research because it gives different types of informat...

Editing is the process of using footage and using it to combine shots into sequences. Film editing used to require you to physically cut the film and then put it together with a separate image to create a cut to the next shot which created a transition in-between the two shots, but editing film is much easier now due to technology and digital cameras and computer software. Transitions are used in the post-production process of editing and it is where scenes are merged together, the most common transition is a cut which is where the scene instantly moves to the next shot which can be used for many different editing techniques, dissolve transitions can be used when a character in a film may be having a flashback and wipe transitions are used to portray time passing.   This scene from Hot Fuzz has lots of cuts between different camera angles to show how intense the scene is, the music in the background is also very intense sounding which matches the scene, in the scene at 1:17, there ...

  https://www.depict.org/2020/the-wall/?category_request=2020 I chose this video because of the way it displays different beliefs, for most of the video it shows a group of boys playing a ball game and throwing it over the wall, and whoever was on the other side was joining in on the game, but towards the end the ball isn't thrown back over and the camera pans to the other side of the wall where it shows a group of girls with what appears to be a teacher telling them off for playing with the boys on the other side of the wall. https://www.depict.org/2013/cool-unicorn-bruv/?category_request=picks I chose this video because it is funny, it shows a guy trying to sell his bike to someone else and then another guy casually passes by with a unicorn and they talk about it like an everyday normal topic which makes it funny, it looks like a professionally shot short film as the angles are positioned well and the focus and lighting is good. https://www.depict.org/2003/how-to-tell-when-a-rela...