Farewell Message: HNC Students 2016

Thanks to all HNC Creative Media Production students for your hard work, effort and support this year. It has been most appreciated.

We all look forward to hearing of your continued success in the future and will miss your company.

Please take a moment to watch this video and listen to the lyrics. 

Film & Film Theory Site

This site provides excellent links to New Wave articles and Film theory.

Very useful for The Contextual Study Unit.

There is a link available if you scroll down the right hand of the blog. Or click here.

René Clair: Entr'Acte (1924)

Entr'acte is a 1924 French short film directed by René Clair, which premiered as an entr'acte for the Ballets Suédois production Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Relâche is based on a book and with settings by Francis Picabia, produced by Rolf de Maré, and with choreography by Jean Börlin. The music for both the ballet and the film was composed by Erik Satie.

For this production, the Dadaists collaborating on the project invented a new mode of production: instantanéisme. The complete film takes about 20 minutes using such techniques as watching people run in slow motion, watching things happen in reverse, looking at a ballet dancer from underneath, watching an egg over a fountain of water get shot and instantly become a bird and watching people disappear. The cast included cameo appearances by Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp. The conductor of the orchestra at the premiere was Roger Désormière.

New Course for 2015: BTEC HNC in Creative Media Production (Moving Image)

This highly practical course is aimed at those interested in film and video making. The course encourages experimentation and creative development. It includes all aspects of digital video film making as well as an emphasis on the use of sound and editing using Final Cut Pro. 

This course provides a foundation in aspects of the moving image and sound, to allow students to understand current developments and deal with changes in technology. 

It will enable learners to develop a portfolio of work which can be shown to potential employers or higher educational establishments. 

The course comprises of eight units, the majority of which are practical.
Units:

• Contextual Studies for Creative Media Production
• Research Techniques for Creative Media Production
• Practical Skills for Moving Image Production
• Film Studies
• Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing
• Promotional Video Production
• Camera & Lighting Techniques for Moving Image Production
• Music Video Production

The Higher National Certificate usually allows students to go directly into the second year of a degree course - this will allow the students to reduce overall course education costs.

Possibility of studying to HND level at King Edward may also be available.

For further details visit: King Edward VI website here

Foundation Art: HNC Standard of Work Sample

To give a guide to the standard of work expected on the HNC Creative Media Production course here is a video produced by former A2 Film Studies student Ryan Potter (created for the Foundation Art course).

Shooting Video on DSLR

'Jean-Luc Cinema Godard' Documentary

Shooting at night or with low light with DSLR cameras

Nighttime Shooting with a DSLR from Vimeo Video School on Vimeo.

Glowing Boards And Drone-Cameras Ensure This Is Not Your Average Skate Video

The film follows a skater as he travels along doing tricks and stunts, shot with a camera suspended on a RC helicopter so we get a drone’s eye view as the skater journeys on through the darkness, his board illuminating the ground below him as he flies down stairs and glides around the city.

The angle it’s shot from and the illuminated board gives the whole thing an ethereal, almost CG quality, making it somewhat of a departure from your average skate video. You can check out the BTS below.

FIREFLY from samadhi production on Vimeo.

Source: newcinema.net/site/news

The Kuloshev Effect: Editing

The Kuleshov Effect is a well-documented concept in film-making, discovered by Soviet film editor Lev Kuleshov in the 1920s. Kuleshov put a film together, showing the expression of an actor, edited together with a plate of soup, a dead woman, and a woman on a recliner. Audiences praised the subtle acting, showing an almost imperceptible expression of hunger, grief, or lust in turn. The reality, of course, is that the same clip of the actor's face was re-used, and the effect is created entirely by its superimposition with other images.

More generally, the Kuleshov Effect is the basis of Soviet montage cinema, and is used in many many films since. The idea is that, by editing different things together, it is possible to create meanings that didn't exist in either of the images put together - constructing 'sentences' and 'texts' out of film.