Final Copy of Waterloo Road Clip

  The camera angle at the beginning when the boy gets shot is a medium close up shot on his face, this shot helps illustrates the boy who got shot face expression and highlights his emotion of shock.
            The clip of the 360 camera shot of the teacher is a low angle shot which shows that the teacher has power and authority, the camera going round the teacher also has connotations of how the teacher is feeling, which is confusion. After the camera does a 360 around the teacher the camera inclines to the teachers level and does a close up shot, this is to signify the shock on the teachers face.
            The next shot is of the student running up to the teacher, this shot is an over the shoulder shot which makes the viewer feel a sense of involvement and part of the scene. This makes the reader enjoy the clip even more as if they feel in the actual scene they feel more involved.
            The next scene of a girl being held back by a teacher is a medium close up shot. The actual shot shows the emotion on the girl’s face which highlights that the girl is worried and scared for the boy who just came out of the school building.
            When the teacher runs into the building it is a long shot which shows the whole of her body. This signifies to the reader that she is running, the fact that she is running indicates to the audience that this is a serious matter as she is in a rush to get into the building.

Waterloo Road clip

 In the opening part of the clip the camera is at a medium shot to show the person has blood on his t-shirt; this implies that something serious is happening in this clip and the audience can see this by the camera showing the blood on his t-shirt. The camera is very shaky when viewing the boy with the gun, this makes it unclear to the viewer who shot the boy, also the camera shot only shows half of his face and it shows it quickly, this implies that the audience are not supposed to see who the boy with the gun is as they don’t show him for a long enough time.
        The next scene is of a crowd of the all the students of the school on the field, when they hear the gun shot they all start screaming. The camera helps make the atmosphere worrying and tense by doing sharp cuts on there faces, there are some close ups of teachers/students faces which emphasises their emotions, which is scared.
        The next shot is of a teacher who looks worried, the camera does a full 360 turn around her body and the shot is a medium close up. The 360 turn shows the teacher’s expression on her face, which is shock and also shows her view from were she is standing to where the students are. This makes the viewer feel part of the scene as they can see what the teacher can see. It also indicates that this woman is one of the main characters in the clip as the camera is focusing on her. The turn is also done in slow motion, which captures the atmosphere of the scene and helps the viewer feel part of the scene even more.
        The very long shot of the students running away from the school building highlights how serious this situation is as the audience see how many students are outside and that the whole school has to be evacuated from the school.
        When the boy comes outside of the school the camera is focused on the teacher and then blurs and then focus on the boy running out of the school. This allows the viewer to see the expression/emotion on the teachers face and then shows the viewer that the boy has now come out of the school all in one shot, this is a very affective camera shot.  
The camera shot of the teacher holding a student back is a big close-up, which really highlights the emotion on the girls face when she sees this boy come out of the school with blood on his white t-shirt. The camera shot helps emphasis that she is worried and sad about the boy who just came out, this signifies that the boy means something to her.
       When the camera goes back onto the teacher, Rachel, it is a low angle shot, which indicates to the viewer that this teacher has power and authority. This is shown straight after as she runs into the school when the boy with the gun is still in there.

Independent Research 7

BSkyB makes land-grab for all Harry Potter films - Telegraph

The satellite television business, which is 39pc owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, has signed a deal with Warner Bros which will prevent any of its rivals from screening the sought-after series for three months over the crucial Christmas period.

“We’re wrapping our arms around all of Harry Potter and putting the titles in one place and giving it the full Sky Movies treatment. Over Christmas and New Year, you won’t be able to see Harry Potter on any of the other services,” a BSkyB source said.

The deal will come as a blow to the pay-TV operator’s competitors, which have been lobbying to force BSkyB to loosen its stranglehold on premium movie rights, rather than being allowed to tighten it.

Both Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, and BSkyB’s rivals including Virgin Media claim that it has an unfair monopoly over films from Hollywood’s “Big Six” studios, which include Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures and Universal.

However, BSkyB scored a victory earlier this year by persuading the Competition Commission that it should be allowed to continue to bid for all the film rights, because the media landscape was changing. The regulator said that newcomers such as Netflix and Amazon’s LoveFilm, the online film rental businesses, would shake up the film rights market - something Netflix’s chief executive Reed Hastings later backed up with a pledge to be “really aggressive” with its bids against BSkyB.

The competition between the companies will be put to the test over the coming months as BSkyB’s contracts with the Big Six studios comes up for renewal. However, the broadcaster has successfully defended its portfolio so far.

Last month it signed a new five-year deal with Warner Bros that will give it exclusive rights to show forthcoming films such as The Dark Knight Rises, for around a year before they are made available to other pay-TV services.

However, the Harry Potter deal goes one further and hands BSkyB the exclusive rights to classic films from its archive, which are likely to be a major draw at one of the most important points of the year for subscription sales.

It follows a similar deal with MGM for the exclusive rights to show its archive of James Bond movies, to co-incide withteh launch of the newest film in the franchise, Skyfall, later this month. BSkyB launched a dedicated channel for the Bond movies. It is unknown whether it plans a similar channel for the Harry Potter films.

Haydon Hills, School Drama

Verisimilitude

Verisimilitude is a philosophical or theoretical notion that distinguishes truth and falsity of assertions or hypotheses. The problem of verisimilitude is the problem of articulating what it takes for one false theory to be closer to the truth than another false theory.

analysing camera shots in school drama

 In the opening part of the clip the camera is at a medium shot to show the person has blood on his t-shirt; this implies that something serious is happening in this clip and the audience can see this by the camera showing the blood on his t-shirt. The camera is very shaky when viewing the boy with the gun, this makes it unclear to the viewer who shot the boy, also the camera shot only shows half of his face and it shows it quickly, this implies that the audience are not supposed to see who the boy with the gun is as they don’t show him for a long enough time.
        The next scene is of a crowd of the all the students of the school on the field, when they hear the gun shot they all start screaming. The camera helps make the atmosphere worrying and tense by doing sharp cuts on there faces, there are some close ups of teachers/students faces which emphasises their emotions, which is scared.
        The next shot is of a teacher who looks worried, the camera does a full 360 turn around her body and the shot is a medium close up. The 360 turn shows the teacher’s expression on her face, which is shock and also shows her view from were she is standing to where the students are. This makes the viewer feel part of the scene as they can see what the teacher can see. It also indicates that this woman is one of the main characters in the clip as the camera is focusing on her. The turn is also done in slow motion, which captures the atmosphere of the scene and helps the viewer feel part of the scene even more.
        The very long shot of the students running away from the school building highlights how serious this situation is as the audience see how many students are outside and that the whole school has to be evacuated from the school.
        When the boy comes outside of the school the camera is focused on the teacher and then blurs and then focus on the boy running out of the school. This allows the viewer to see the expression/emotion on the teachers face and then shows the viewer that the boy has now come out of the school all in one shot, this is a very affective camera shot. 
The camera shot of the teacher holding a student back is a big close-up, which really highlights the emotion on the girls face when she sees this boy come out of the school with blood on his white t-shirt. The camera shot helps emphasis that she is worried and sad about the boy who just came out, this signifies that the boy means something to her.
       When the camera goes back onto the teacher, Rachel, it is a low angle shot, which indicates to the viewer that this teacher has power and authority. This is shown straight after as she runs into the school when the boy with the gun is still in there.

Independent Research 6

Taken 2 scores $50m US opening weekend

Liam Neeson's thriller sequel Taken 2 has topped the US and Canadian box office, taking $50 million (£31.1m), despite a poor reception from critics.

That is double the opening weekend for the original film, which took $24.7 million (£15.4m) in 2009.

Last week's number one, Adam Sandler animation Hotel Transylvania, was at two with $26.3 million (£16.35m).

Glee-style musical Pitch Perfect was in third with $14.7 million (£9.14m), following a limited release last week.

The movie stars Anna Kendrick as a college student trying to liven up her a cappella singing group.

Sci-fi thriller Looper, starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, fell from second-place to fourth with $12.2 million (£7.59m).

Tim Burton's stop motion monster tale Frankenweenie opened in fifth place, taking $11.5 million (£7.15m), after facing competition from rival spooky animation Hotel Transylvania.

Burton's Disney tale, about a boy who brings his dead dog back to life, is shot in black and white in an homage to classic horror movies.