PRELIMINARY TASK | MAIN TASK | |
THE SOPHISITCATION OF PLANNING AND PREPARATION | -Quite simplistic. -Took one day to plan. -We were working off of someone else’s storyboard and therefore didn’t have much decision making to do. -Actors and props were gathered through opportunity on the day/ the location was given to us as was equipment. -Had little freedom/responsibility. | -Very in-depth/detailed/ complicated -Took several weeks to plan actors/location/equipment/props etc. -Working at a large scale of production- we had freedom and responsibility. -We created a file in order to insure that everything was organised from equipment to permission of use for the location. |
DEVELOPMENT OF FILM MAKING SKILLS | -Testing to see if we remembered our tutorial on cameras and filming. -We learnt to use a storyboard however it was not our original story. -I feel, what I learnt, mostly, from the task is how to behave on set. -I also learnt that it was good to listen to everyone's ideas. | -I learnt that you can tell a story without dialogue. Through filming. -Filming skills had developed from classes by the time we reached storyboarding and therefore helped us come up with many ideas which we were very happy with. -I learnt that the communication between the actors and the filming crew is very important. |
USE OF CAMERA | -Not very interesting/original shots just basic; wide shots, ECUs, CUs etc. -I learnt that preparation is vital for interesting/good quality shots. -Limited in shot production as we were working from a storyboard which was not created by us and we had to follow it. -We worked slowly at achieving shots as were reasonably new to cameras. -I learnt that the angle of the camera and eye-line is very important in terms of status. | -We had time to think, intelligently about our shots and new a lot more about camera shots on the day so time was not an issue. -I realised the importance of seeing the location, first-hand, before filming as some shots from our story-board were not possible to achieve. -We put the skills we had learnt from class into making original shots. -We used underwater shots which we had never done before but was a lot of fun and worked very well. -We were also aware of the importance of such things as continuity and the 180 degree rule. |
DEVLOPMENT IN THE USE OF SOUND | -The element of sound in filming was new to us and therefore very basic. -The only sound which was in this task was diegetic; the dialogue and the ambient sound in the room. -The lack of attention payed to sound really lowered the quality of the film. This helped me to understand the importance of sound. | -Sound was much more complex as we used such programmes as Sound Track Pro. (STP) -We used STP to sometimes take out the ambient sound of the room as at times it was distracting. -We replaced some sounds filmed on day with recorded sound from STP to create a better effect e.g. the breathing -We also used STP to create non-diegetic sounds e.g. the eerie drone music and drums. |
DEMONSTRATING YOUR ABILITY TO MASTER NEW TECHONOLOGY | -We were introduced to Final Cut Pro. To put our footage together. However we were not very creative here as we were just being shown the ropes. -Wasn’t very well edited and looking back I have many ideas which I could have used to make the sequence better. -We didn’t have much time to edit this task and therefore quality wasn’t as good as it could have been. There was no fluidity; the cuts were very jumpy. | - We were reminded of Final Cut Pro and were introduced to Sound Track Pro and learnt to use After Effects for the title (but very basically). -The programmes which we were introduced to in this task gave our media sequence a much better quality. -Our experience with Final Cut Pro, previously, was very useful as we could no use it creatively. -We had much more time to do the editing in this task than the previous task and therefore added to the quality of the sequence as cuts were made more fluid. |
