For my preliminary i worked with Katie, Kam, Tommy and Rob. Kam took the role of camera man, Tommy figured out the dialogue and helped Kam, Rob starred as the man, Katie as the woman, and I helped organise the shots and drew the storyboard. To plan our short peice we drew up a storyboard with our ideas, we made sure our peice would meet all the criteria and all came up with the idea of a scary peice. We used the video recorders and the Macs to finish our films, the Mac allowed us to cut our footage and to rearrange different shots. When shooting we had to make sure that there was no background noise, being in a large school this was diffult, and needed to make sure the lighting in the room was how we wanted it to be. The film conventions we have followed is using background music, using the 180 degree rule, match on action (with the door scene) and used a variety of lots of different camera angles. Before filming we had to make sure everyone was in place, we made sure the lighting was dimmed to make a scary atmosphere, that we had the right props to make Katie looked like she was tied to the chair, and used costume on Rob to make sure he looked intimidating and like a clear 'baddy'.
We can apply Barthes's codes as we have the action code of Rob looking scary about to open the door, and als0 we have an enigma code as we see Katie tied up and wonder why she is in this situaton.
I feel our video went well as we have achieved a quite good film that is interesting. Some things i would change are the fact our clips are a bit jumpy and didnt flow, to fix this i would of filmed more of each scene in one clip, rather than lots of little clips. Also, i feel our dialogue wasnt very clear so i would make sure the camera was closer to the characters so that we could hear what they were saying more easily. I felt out props and costume worked really well as it was obvious that Katie was in a awkward situation and that Rob was the badguy.
Producing a short peice of film was a lot harder than what i thought it would be, as i didnt realise how much i would have to take into consideration. Also, by working in such a large group, we had a lot of clashing of ideas as people wanted things doing their way - leading to disagreements. Im pretty sure at this point that i would like to do a Film as my coursework, but i would want to work in a smaller group so i could use more of my ideas and get more involved in the filming.
Showing posts with label Film Prelim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film Prelim. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Monday, 5 October 2009
Filming/Editing our first short film
When filming our first short film, we had to take a lot of things into concideration. Firstly, lighting, setting and props. We made sure we had a quite dark room to film our peice in to make an eery environment, and also made sure Rob was dressed intimidatingly in a hoodie and balaclava. Once these were all in place, we could start filming. We did each shot 2/3 times to make sure when it came round to editing our peice, we had a variety of shots to chose from, just incase some of them didnt turn out how expected. Also, we made sure we followed our story board, therefore helping us know exactly what we wanted to do for each shot, meaning we could get the job done quicker. Once we had completed all our filming, we went onto the Mac iMovie program to edit.
Once we had uploaded our movie onto iMovie, we went through all our footage and picked the best clips. We then deleted the unwanted excess. After that, we made sure all our footage flowed properly, so that the story followed on and to make sure we had included all the criteria.
In my opinion, i feel our first short film went ok. Some possitives were our planning, we knew exactly what we wanted to do before we set out, therefore we had no arguments or disagreements on what we were going to film. Futhermore, we made sure we followed the criteria, making sure we had included the necessary camera shots etc.
Some negatives were the way our film flowed. I feel it's a little jumpy and maybe we should of filmed some of the segments all at once, rather in lots of seperate takes. I feel like this would make our film flow better. Also, we ran out of time in editing, so it was a shame we couldn't add music to it, to add drama and more pace to our movie.
Overall im happy with our peice, as we have met up to the criteria and thought up a good interesting storyline.
Once we had uploaded our movie onto iMovie, we went through all our footage and picked the best clips. We then deleted the unwanted excess. After that, we made sure all our footage flowed properly, so that the story followed on and to make sure we had included all the criteria.
In my opinion, i feel our first short film went ok. Some possitives were our planning, we knew exactly what we wanted to do before we set out, therefore we had no arguments or disagreements on what we were going to film. Futhermore, we made sure we followed the criteria, making sure we had included the necessary camera shots etc.
Some negatives were the way our film flowed. I feel it's a little jumpy and maybe we should of filmed some of the segments all at once, rather in lots of seperate takes. I feel like this would make our film flow better. Also, we ran out of time in editing, so it was a shame we couldn't add music to it, to add drama and more pace to our movie.
Overall im happy with our peice, as we have met up to the criteria and thought up a good interesting storyline.
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Planning our first short film
Our task was to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. Our short film must obide the 180 degree rule and include a match on action shot and a shot/reverse shot.
To start, we drew up a story board to plan what different shots we would use, plan the action within each shot and think out our dialogue. This was done on an A3 sheet to allow us to plan 8 different shots.
Our idea was to have a close up shot of a mans face walking up to a door, with an extreme close up of his hand opening the handle. We would then see a mid shot of a girl tied to a chair struggling, to a sudden shot of the first character inside the room. There would then be a point of view shot of the man walking over to the tied up girl, exchanging dialogue with her, before hitting her to end the scene. This idea would then cover the shot /reverse shot and the 180 degree rule by flicking from one person to the next while they speak, only using one side of them to film. Also, it would use the match on action of the character going towards the door then suddenly being inside the room.
To start, we drew up a story board to plan what different shots we would use, plan the action within each shot and think out our dialogue. This was done on an A3 sheet to allow us to plan 8 different shots.
Our idea was to have a close up shot of a mans face walking up to a door, with an extreme close up of his hand opening the handle. We would then see a mid shot of a girl tied to a chair struggling, to a sudden shot of the first character inside the room. There would then be a point of view shot of the man walking over to the tied up girl, exchanging dialogue with her, before hitting her to end the scene. This idea would then cover the shot /reverse shot and the 180 degree rule by flicking from one person to the next while they speak, only using one side of them to film. Also, it would use the match on action of the character going towards the door then suddenly being inside the room.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
1st Practical Practice
For my first practical I worked with Rob, Kam and Tommy. Firstly, we did multiple takes of all the various camera shots, repeating them so we had plenty to chose from when it came round to editing. Before and after each clip we made sure we left a 5 second gap to insure when editing we would have plenty of space to work with. To edit we used the Apple Mac computers and used the I Movie program. We selected our favourite clips of film and then edited them to all flow one after the other - and deleted the ones we did not want to use. When editing we had to do a variety of things: shorten the clips; make the clips faster; add music and add text. The music we used was a simple drum beat which we felt went well with our fast paced clip, we also added text to introduce the characters and to name the director and cameraman at the end.
I feel our video was good, seeming we had less time than others to get it edited. I was very pleased with our variety of camera shots as we covered all of them and thought the music matched well. Also, i wasn't in the film or filming it, i was just directing the shots, so next time i would like a go at actually using the camera to get a feel of how to use it properly. The quality of our shots were good as we used the tripod - therefore reducing the chance of a shakey shot. One thing I would change next time is what we actually filmed, 2 lads standing talking isn't very interesting, so next time I would try to think up something more imaginative to make a clip about.
I feel our video was good, seeming we had less time than others to get it edited. I was very pleased with our variety of camera shots as we covered all of them and thought the music matched well. Also, i wasn't in the film or filming it, i was just directing the shots, so next time i would like a go at actually using the camera to get a feel of how to use it properly. The quality of our shots were good as we used the tripod - therefore reducing the chance of a shakey shot. One thing I would change next time is what we actually filmed, 2 lads standing talking isn't very interesting, so next time I would try to think up something more imaginative to make a clip about.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
