The French New

The French New Wave

1959 - The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups)
1960- Breathless (about de souffle)
1961 - A woman is a woman (Une Femme best use femme)

The Oxford history of world cinema - Edited by Geoffrey nowell-smith - 

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The British New Wave

The British new wave is the name given to a trend in films which happened in the late 50's to the early 60's.

British films in the new wave - Late 50s early 60s.
social realism - Cathy come home. - 1966
Room at the Top (1959) - Jack Clayton
Look Back in Anger (1959) -  Tony Richardson
Saturday Night Sunday Morning (1960) - Karel Reisz
Taste of Honey (1961)- Tony Richardson
The L Shaped Room (1962)-  Bryan Forbes
A Kind of Loving (1962)- John Schlesinger
Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)- Tony Richardson
This Sporting Life (1963)- Lindsay Anderson
Billy Liar (1963)- John Schlesinger

Book: Looking back at the British New Wave. 

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaelwalford/entry/the_british_new/

http://www.empireonline.com/features/film-studies-101-movie-movements/p9

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038p3zt

http://www.british60scinema.net/british-new-wave/

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/media-studies/british-new-wave-cinema

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/oct/03/artsfeatures.features

ISO - Night Shooting.

ISO 100 from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.


635A7052 from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.


635A7053 from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.

ISO 1600 from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.

ISO 100 from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.

Here I had two different set ups, using a ISO 100 and ISO 1600.

Process: How effective were your videos?
Using ISO 1600 was a lot more effective, then using ISO 100. This was because of how dark it was and there wasn't much light coming into the photos. I feel that my video on the car and road was a lot better then the petrol station because of the depth of field within the photo. Using a tripod was a strength because it meant that the camera is still and smooth. This also meant that the pan could be smooth and that there wasn't camera shake.

Problem solving: Being in the dark meant that the focusing was hard this was because you could see what you were focusing on. I found waiting a car to go pass to focus the lens worked well because i could see what was in focus and I know where to put my camera. Also have the set up on my camera screen meant that it was easy to see how the video would look and also making sure it was in focus.

ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture

The effects of ISO, shutter speed and aperture. 

ISO is how sensitivity the camera is to light. The lower ISO setting that you have aloud you to have a high aperture setting or longer exposure. Image quality is better when you use a low ISO this is because less noise grain is being let into the camera. If to much noise has been aloud into the photo there will be a pattern of pixels or a group of pixels, and the colours are different to what they should be.

Aperture is the lens opening and controls the amount of light that is passing throughout the lens. This is measure by f/stop. The lower the aperture is where the pupil of the lens is at its widest, letting in the most light. The higher the aperture is where the pupil of the lens is a small hole which is letting in a small amount of light. The lower your aperture the shallower your depth of field will be, and you will have blur in the background or foreground. The higher the aperture the wider the depth of field will be and the sharper the frame will be. Choosing the right aperture is important for the depth of field that you want, this is because the it allowing you to control what is in focus and what is out of focus.
Here is an example of low aperture and having a shallow depth of field. The bird in the foreground is in focus and the background is blur and out of focus.                                                                                                                  

Here is an example of high aperture and having a high depth of field. Anything within this photo is in focus, this is because they lens is allowing less light into the camera.





Shutter Speed is how long the shutter is open for, the long the shutter speed is shut the more motivation blur there will be in the image.  A faster shutter speed can freeze movement and a slower shutter creates motivation blur from a moving object. If you use a slow shutter speed you can pan a moving image. Shutter speed also effects the amount of light that is coming into the photo, because of the time the shutter is open for.

ISO, aperture and shutter speed work together to get the correct depth of field and light into the frame.


Book: Digital video handbook, Tom Ang, 2005, Penguin.
Photos: Google Images.

Video's

Aperture from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.

Here I was looking at using a low aperture and being able to focus in on different parts of the photo. I felt that this work well and I was able to have the camera focusing on different parts. I could improve this by making the focusing more smoother and making sure I was getting the focus right.



Studio from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.

I took this video in the studio using a LED light at the side on Beth, which is showing split lighting. I wanted to try to using the focus. At the end I need to have to focus the camera a little bit more to make sure Beth was fully in focus. I need to use a low ISO to make the video less grainy.
MVI_0771 from Jessica Barratt on Vimeo.

For this video I wanted to look at natural lighting and see how natural lighting looked in a video. To improve this video I would need to take something more interesting and something with more depth.