Testing ISO

 What are the effects of ISO to moving image?


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ISO evening test- from georgie wing on Vimeo.

What effect does ISO 100 have?
I started my ISO test in the afternoon while it was still light outside. I did this to ensure that I could use an ISO of 100 and still have a perfectly exposed moving image. Using as close to ISO 100 as possible means that the image will be less sensitive to light and therefore will have less noise/grain in the image. Noise/grain ruins the effect of the image by interfering with how clean the image looks.

What effect does ISO 1600 have?

Using a higher ISO such as ISO 1600 means that the camera is much more sensitive to the light and therefore more light will enter the image. Using a higher ISO is perfect if you are filming at night with no other source of lighting. However it is better to have an additional light source because using a high ISO leaves grain on the footage/shot. The image below shows how different ISO's can effect the image shot.

                            Image from: https://photobizblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/iso-comparison.jpg

Using ISO 100 outdoors in the afternoon meant that my image was going to be overexposed, as a result of this I decided to raise my aperture so that less light could enter the image.                                                                                                                I found using ISO 100 in the afternoon a lot easier than in the evening because I got a perfectly exposed  moving image just by raising my aperture whereas in the evening raising my aperture to its limit still meant that the moving image was still underexposed. I was using a standard lens so therefore I could only raise my aperture to 4.5, this resulted in my footage being underexposed. To fix this problem I would have had to use a different lens. However that would have resulted in me having to compromise with the shot I wanted. If I had decided to use a different lens such as a wide angle lens  then it would have effected my shot because the footage would have been wider and I would not have been able to pan to the other focal point of the footage which is what I wanted to do. Due to these challenges I found having to stick to the set ISO's of 100 and 1600 really difficult without having to compromise on either my exposure or my shot.

New Wave draft

The influence of The French New Wave

I have decided to use the information from this source because of its great detail of French cinema before the French New Wave started and how it all started. It also gives some context of how life in France influenced the films that were being made. It mentions how French cinema at the time mirrored how unstable France was economically after the war.

This part of the source describes how the 'Cahiers du Cinema' was founded in 1951. The magazine was where the young French filmmakers could express how they felt about the French films of the time. Godard, Rohmer and Rivette challenged each others opinions on film and how they believed films should be made. Bazin, one of the four founders of the magazine, however believed that films should reflect the directors "personal vision". Bazin also preferred films that showed the harsh reality of the French lifestyle of the time.

Source: https://thefilmstage.com/features/the-classroom-french-new-wave-the-influencing-of-the-influencers/

Labelling in Premier

Labelling in Premier has been really useful to me because it enabled me to separate the different aspects of my sequence into different groups. This means that I will be able to find the clips that I need for certain parts of the sequence easier. Without using the labels it would take me longer to create my sequence as I would have to search through all of my different clips to find the one that I want.

Bibliography for New Wave research

Bibliography:

Films:

The 400 Blows- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/ (Accessed: 12 December 2016).

Breathless- 
À bout de souffle (1960) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard .

Contempt- 

Le mépris (1963) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard .

Websites:
Parnell, L. (2016) The french new wave: Revolutionising cinema. Available at: http://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/articles/the-french-new-wave-revolutionising-cinema/ (Accessed: 5 October 2016).
 (No Date) Available at: http://www.filmeducation.org/pdf/resources/secondary/FrenchNouvelleVague.pdf (Accessed: 5 October 2016).Hitchman, S. (2008) French new wave film (nouvelle vague): Where to start. Available at: http://www.newwavefilm.com/new-wave-cinema-guide/nouvelle-vague-where-to-start.shtml (Accessed: 5 October 2016).

Coates, K. (2010) French new wave: The influencing of the Influencers. Available at: https://thefilmstage.com/features/the-classroom-french-new-wave-the-influencing-of-the-influencers/ (Accessed: 17 October 2016).

T, B. (2016) The french new wave. Available at: http://the-artifice.com/the-french-new-wave/ (Accessed: 12 December 2016).

Morrow, J. (2014) What Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘breathless’ can teach you about jump cuts & editing. Available at: http://nofilmschool.com/2014/12/what-jean-luc-godards-breathless-can-teach-you-about-editing (Accessed: 12 December 2016).

Books:

Martin, S. (2013) New waves in cinema. Chicago: Oldcastle Books.

Fabe, M. (2004) Closely watched films - an introduction to the art of narrative film technique. Berkeley: University of California Press.

French new wave characteristics

This article is really useful for my research because it discusses some of the techniques and conventions used in the French New Wave. It also compares the camera techniques of the French New Wave to the ones of the Hollywood films of the time. This also mentions the directors that are still influenced by the French New Wave today. I will discuss these French New Wave techniques in my presentation and apply them to my three focus films: 'The 400 Blows', 'Breathless' and 'Contempt'.

This quote is perfect for my presentation as it talks about how bored the young French filmmakers were at the time and how they wanted to break free from the boring world of American film. This is how the French New Wave started.

This section of the article further discusses how dissatisfied the young filmmakers were. It also discusses how film was the most popular form of entertainment in 1950's France and how Television wasn't that popular in France yet. They also believed in the Auteur theory. The Auteur theory is the belief that the director of the film should be the author of the film and that it should contain personal meaning and beliefs of the director.





Source: http://www.filmeducation.org/pdf/resources/secondary/FrenchNouvelleVague.pdf