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Exploring the role as a script writer LA A

SECTION 1 JOB ROLES Commissioning editor the commissioning editor is basically a buyer, the commissioning editor basically looks at the product and analyses it to see if it's a good product to invest for the publishers/production company. A directors job is to be the main creative mind as he visualises the finished product and comes up with the shots and camera positionings he also takes control of overseeing the script while guiding his crew and cast in the right path during the production of the project. The directors job is a crucial and effective job because they are the main creator and the person the cast and crew look towards this is a directors responsibility. A script editor is another important job in media industry as it's the main person who takes control of the the writing the producting he/she oversees and alters the script to make sure its suitable for the production weather this be for a radio ad or a full on TV production. A script writers responsibilities are ...

Editing Techniques

There are many editing techniques in movies I will be analysing a few, for my first piece of editing analysis I would like to talk about the montage scene in Brian De Palma's  1983  crime film Scarface. https://youtu.be/Olgn9sXNdl0 In this scene we see Tony Montana the protagonist living a high life there are many continuity editing pieces in this clip one being close to the beginning of the clip where Tony and his associates are taking millions of dollars to the bank we see the van pull up and just before the characters get out the van the editing shifts from the side of the van to the front see we can see the bags being carried into the bank. There is another small continuity shot I like where Tony walks from a business he's just bought and he walks into the camera and for a brief second the camera goes dark and then it's another shot of Tony now walking away from the camera. The montage in the scene is a good reason to tell us how earlier in the film Tony was a nobody bu...

Single Camera Techniques LAA

single camera assignment To start of there are two types of productions in films there is a single camera production and the other is a multi camera production a production using single camera are usually series like Brooklyn nine nine  (2013- Present) a documentary show like planet earth .(2006-2006)  Each shot using a single camera is taken by that same camera where as in multi camera production they use multiple cameras for certain shots and angles where they are best suited. The single camera technique was first used in the early 20th century in early Hollywood on productions but it was in the  1960 s when it first got popularized in hit shows like The Adams family  (1964-1966)  and the Beverly Hillbillies  (1962-1971). A scp differs from multi because single camera is used for everything you see in the production where as multi camera is used in different ways for different things this could be a close up for one camera and using a different camera for...