What did I learn today? Sound Techniques and Filming

Friday 1st Feb
10ish p.m.
Middlemore House
King's College


Today in media we went over sound techniques and watched a movie clip from Jaws a scene where a shark eats a small child. We studied different sound techniques and talked about how pleonastic sound is used heightening increasingly creating fear and unease, its like the duh nuh duh nuh duh nuhhh DUH NUH DUH NUH DUH DAH! (terrible example I know) For prep we were asked to write out all the techniques but I did that yesterday.
Then we all got into groups and were given a video camera and three things that we had to we had Zoom in/ Zoom out, 180-degree rule, and undiagetic and diagetic sound. The people in my group were... I really must remember there names.. Hugh D'arcy, Sorya, and me! We tossed up for awhile what to do but basically we did a 45 second  clip outside it was a bit of a fail but quite fun!
We basically had a monologue with a 180 degree shot that cut over the shoulder on both sides, the sound was pretty bad and for non diagetic sound Hugh said "wow media is pretty awesome this year" and then again through voice over, the diagetic sound wind and the cicadas in the background. Then we zoom in slowly on Sorya's face as she winks sarcastically at the statement. We used iMovie to edit which was quite good experience as I am completely clueless so far. Everyone laughed and we watched some others which were quite similar.

Film Techniques that we used:

Zoom in/ Zoom out : I think that everyone knows what Zoom in and out is, but it is a basically slow close up on an object and a slow withdrawing image.

Undiagetic : Sounds such as voice overs that aren't natural and are added in during the editing process, such as voice over and a theme song.

Diagetic Sound : Sounds that have been naturally created and come with the environment and setting such as cicadas and chatter.

180-degree rule: so I understand this but it is a tad hard to explain so here is what wikipedia says and then i will try explain more..I hope..

In film making, the 180-degree rule^[1] is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. If the camera passes over the axis, it is called jumping the line orcrossing the line



Soo its quite late but i will try explain..
In this shot it is a two person mid shot where the camera remains in one place and the two people stand opposite each other with the camera only zooming in from opposite over the shoulder shots if you can imagen a restaurant scene with tow people sitting at a table they are only viewed from three angle and only from one 180 degree side so for this example below only on the green side. Comment if im wrong thats just how i get it at the moment. :)

Diagram to explain the 180-degree rule.

So this is what I learned today... goodnight!

KTB