Evaluattion of preliminary task

1- What I learnt during the task
During the filming and editing process I have learned many new things. One example of this is now I know how to edit films to great detail in Adobe Premiere Pro and how to create a piece of music on Mixcraft 5 to add on to our film and adding this on to Premiere Pro. We manage to film our whole piece in two weeks and edited for two weeks. Altogether the filming and editing process took one month to do. The storyboard process took two lessons to complete with our ideas on camera angles and how the characters were dressed. One issue with continuity was in one scene where the sunglasses on Shaun changed as his glasses broke.

2- Area's of success  

My area's of success during the preliminary task was filming as I was on camera, filming the different scenes with Shaun. The success I achieved with the planning stage was when I suggested several locations where we could film. We filmed at the entrance to Tupton Hall School, The corridors of the school and in a science classroom at the school. I was successful with my editing techniques on the editing process with cutting long shots and shortening them so we could reach our recommended time for the length of the film.

3-Area's for development

if I do a film opening sequence project again in media then I would improve on certain techniques, One of these is to improve on my camera skills as the camera was not very steady during some parts of the opening scene. some other improvements involved editing as the footage was not cut very well and that next time I would need to improve on how to add sound i.e. dialogue as we could not retrieve the sound during the first week of editing.

4- How well did I meet the brief

With this preliminary work we did follow the rule of 180 degree rule as we used this when Shaun walked down the drive way and he stopped, thin I went around Shaun to show what he was looking at. We used Shot/Reverse shot when there was the dialogue between Shaun and me. Every time we said our line the camera focused on the other person. We also used Match on action during the filming when Shaun looked over the car park and the camera focused on what Shaun was looking at.

5- Feedback from others

Amber's group.

3 positive things about our film:

1. They liked how we used specific camera techniques
2. They loved our music and how we composed it in Mixcraft
3. They liked our plot overall and how the opening builds up tension.

3 improvements we could make

1. Make the film a little shorter, cut some of the parts where Shaun is walking
2. Next time make sure that the camera is more steady and more accurate at where the camera is pointing
3. Try not to change props part way through as they saw our change in the glasses

6-Evalulation of my contribution

During the preliminary task I filmed the whole film, helped plan our locations, shots and camera angles, sorted out props and helped with editing. The skills I have gained during this task was  new skills on editing and filming which I can use for future tasks. Me and Shaun did work well together as we helped each other out when working on specific jobs such as the script writing. We also helped each other out with editing.

Overall the preliminary task to me was a success. Thanks to Shaun Hardwick.

The film is on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWdkmMXqfp4&list=UUht5fxUjha19_XNfG0mi2EA



















  

Progress so far

Several weeks into the task and me and Shaun has finished filming our opening sequence and are half way through the editing process using Adobe Premiere Pro to cut certain shots, add sound and special effects and to put the film together. We aim to finish the editing process by next week so the work can be marked.

The storyboard for the opening of the new film The Package. Made by Shaun Hardwick and Ryan Parsons

Post production

The article by Stephen Kelly on wired.co.uk has written on the post-production for the channel 4 thriller Utopia.


Stephen Kelly first explains the plot for the series and points out about how the colour is used in the programme. He says that the director Marc Munden replaced the usual type of colour technology to the Technicolor palette of the 1950's

Kelly writes that Munden and colourist Aidan Farrell carefully colour corrected each shot in the post production stage through the software Nucoda films. Munden says that they "chose certain colours such as yellow and turquoise and painted them on to the shots afterwards". Some examples of what Munden changed was that they made the grass greener and a blue van yellow.
Everything that they did was to make the colours used to have a meaning in the story and to show the contrasts to emotions and feelings and also the events that happen in this series.

Preliminary task- introduction to a film

The task that's worth 10% of my grade in AS Level.

In the past few week, we were given a task that is worth 10% of our AS Level grade.
This task was to create some clips of a movie that does include the following:

1. A person walking down a corridor.
2. A person opening a door.
3. A person sitting on a chair or stool in front of another person and deliver some speech.

This was the main things we needed to show in our short movie of clips,  and anything else we could add to make the short movie more exciting.

We used a range of different shot angles such as close - up,  tilt shot, low angle and high angle shots as well as more.

Even we used some costume to make the main character of the short movie of clips better.

I will be working with Shaun Hardwick to create a new opening to a film called The Package.

Framing a shot: practice with stills

1. LS USING LEADING LINES
CREATES THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT, AND THE
EMOTION OF WONDER AND THRILL IN THE AUDIENCE
AS THEY WILL BE DETERMINED TO WATCH
WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARDS.

 

2. LONG SHOT
USED TO AN OPENING OF THE FILM, SETS THE LOCATION OR STARTING LOCATION OF THE MAIN CHARACTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE FILM/STORY.

CLOSE UP USING THE RULE OF THIRDS
CLOSE UP OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S FACE SHOWING THEIR EMOTION AND
FEELINGS AT THE MOMENT OF THE SHOT.
MOSTLY ITS AN SHOT OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S FACE AND SHOULDERS, HOWEVER SOMETIMES THE INDIVIDUAL'S FACE ONLY.

THREE DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES
Focuses on one thing that's is very important at the moment of the film, this show is used when two or more characters in the film is meeting up at that location and shows the different angles they enter the site. For examples; one person enters from the right- handed side of the sculpture, then another enters from the left-handed side of the sculpture and both are meeting at the centre of the sculpture.

ECU- EXTREME CLOSE UP
SHOWS THE EMOTION AND FEELING OF THE FACE OR IMPORTANT OBJECT IN THE FILM.
OR USED IN THE OPENING OF THE FILM TO BE AN STARTING POINT OF IMPORTANTS WITHIN THE FILM, FOR EXAMPLES IN A MURDER, THRILLER FILM THE KNIFE THAT KILLS SOMEONE, AS IT SAYING TO THE AUDIENCE WHO'S THIS KNIFE BELONGS TO. THIS WILL CREATE THE THRILL AND MYSTERY OF THE FILM AND ATTRACTS THE AUDIENCE'S  ATTENDION TO WATCH THE FILM.

MEDIUM SHOT (MS) USING LEADING LINES
SAME AS A LONG SHOT USING LEADING LINES HOWEVER THE MEDIUM SHOT IS MORE FOCUSED ON THE INDIVIDUAL WITH LITTLE BACKGROUND.
BUT STILL SHOWS THE DIRECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S MOVEMENT IN THE MOVIE.

 

LS- LOW ANGLE SHOT
CREATES THE INDIVIDUAL OR OBJECT DOMINANT IN THE SHOT, THAT THE PERSON OR OBJECT IS IMPORTANT AND FOCUS OF THAT MOMENT IN THE FILM. SHOWS THE PERSON'S EMOTION AND FEELINGS AT THAT MOMENT OF THE SHOT, CREATES A SCARY, THRILLING ATMOSPHERE AS SHOWN OF THE FACE OF THE PERSON.

ESTABLISHING SHOT
SHOWS THE PROBLEM OR SETTING IN THE MOVIE, THAT CREATES A THRILLING, ACTION ATMOSPHERE.