Main Film Task Evaluation
Pre – Production
Before we started filming, we did alot of research into our desired genre of film. We did a horror genre film so we analysed five film openings and three whole films. this gave us ideas as to what we needed to put into our own film openeing. We also looked at certain horror film production companies to get more to grips with what we needed to include in our film. All the research we did is in our folders and here on our blogs, and once the research was done, we started to film.
Filming
When it came to filming, there were a few disagreements as to where we should film. we eventually landed on Cofton Park. We assembled our team of actors and started shooting around 6 o'clock on the night. We found trying to get the right camera angles was hard as the ground in the park is very uneven. We had problems with the lighting during filming but to our luck, it helped with the authenticity. Once all our filming was done, we took our footage to the computers to begin editing.
Editing
With the editing underway, we quickly managed to get the order of our film down with little effort as we had filmed most of the opening in sequence. Once we had the basis down, we could start adding effects and sounds. This was very easy with the Apple Macs because they already had sounds and effects uploaded onto them. after putting the final touches on the film opening, we added the title and we were done.
Conclusion
Overall i think our group worked very well together even though there were a few small disagreements. The film came together very nicely and we had very little problems.
Friday, 8 May 2009
Preliminary Evaluation
Preliminary Task Evaluation
Pre – Production
Before we started filming we needed no plan what we had to do first so we could film with as little interruptions as possible. We first wrote down some ideas for what we wanted to do in the filming and eventually came to a decision. We then storyboarded our idea so we could see all the shots and how it would go together. We decided we would have a man (myself) barging into a door with gun in hand and ask a lawyer (Lizzie Maddocks) some questions about the whereabouts of some papers. We had to adapt some ideas due to conflict of opinion but eventually came to a joint decision about what the characters will say and do. With all this agreed upon and on paper, we turned our attention to filming the preliminary task.
Filming
For the filming we decided to film at my house as it had a good set up for the room we had envisioned in the storyboard. We changed the room slightly in order to get the correct shots we needed whilst trying to avoid any continuity e.g. time or change of lighting. This posed quite a problem when we were filming because we couldn’t decide whether to incorporate natural or artificial light. Eventually settling on artificial light we started filming. We shot each bit of the film about three times to make sure we got the best shot possible. This also helped later in the editing as we had a range of shots to choose from. During our filming, we violated the 180° rule and therefore need to go back and re-film the bits where we made the mistakes. This will set us back but hopefully we can get the bits we need and continue editing.
Editing
During editing we had to upload the footage that we shot onto the computers and edit it down to around a minute long. With the new footage uploaded it didn’t take us long to cut it down to around 40seconds. This time round we found editing a lot easier because we didn’t have any mistakes uin the footage and we had less to go through. Working with the other 2 people in my group was very easy as they co-operated very well and we got the work done in no time
Conclusion
In conclusion, I think we worked very well as a team and the preliminary task has set us on the right course to shoot our main project. I think we need to plan a little more and try and keep our time in order better for the main project.
Pre – Production
Before we started filming we needed no plan what we had to do first so we could film with as little interruptions as possible. We first wrote down some ideas for what we wanted to do in the filming and eventually came to a decision. We then storyboarded our idea so we could see all the shots and how it would go together. We decided we would have a man (myself) barging into a door with gun in hand and ask a lawyer (Lizzie Maddocks) some questions about the whereabouts of some papers. We had to adapt some ideas due to conflict of opinion but eventually came to a joint decision about what the characters will say and do. With all this agreed upon and on paper, we turned our attention to filming the preliminary task.
Filming
For the filming we decided to film at my house as it had a good set up for the room we had envisioned in the storyboard. We changed the room slightly in order to get the correct shots we needed whilst trying to avoid any continuity e.g. time or change of lighting. This posed quite a problem when we were filming because we couldn’t decide whether to incorporate natural or artificial light. Eventually settling on artificial light we started filming. We shot each bit of the film about three times to make sure we got the best shot possible. This also helped later in the editing as we had a range of shots to choose from. During our filming, we violated the 180° rule and therefore need to go back and re-film the bits where we made the mistakes. This will set us back but hopefully we can get the bits we need and continue editing.
Editing
During editing we had to upload the footage that we shot onto the computers and edit it down to around a minute long. With the new footage uploaded it didn’t take us long to cut it down to around 40seconds. This time round we found editing a lot easier because we didn’t have any mistakes uin the footage and we had less to go through. Working with the other 2 people in my group was very easy as they co-operated very well and we got the work done in no time
Conclusion
In conclusion, I think we worked very well as a team and the preliminary task has set us on the right course to shoot our main project. I think we need to plan a little more and try and keep our time in order better for the main project.
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