Preliminary - Filming

Our filming was successful, we arranged the room to create an area suitable for our type of film, although it took a while adjusting to the camera, as this was our first opportunity to use them, but once we felt we were happy the rest of the production went smoothly.

Storyboard

Before we began the actualy filming for our preliminary task, we had to create a story board explaining the type of shot, character movement, etc. We experimented with two types of story board, one being hand drawn, the other using photographs, both with annotations. Below are images of our storyboards after being scanned in. This was the adversity in completing our task as we did not have acces to a scanner at the time and it is only until now that we have discovered an available scanner in school.
However now below are both of our completed storyboards.

Preliminary

We have been set a media task to complete a short video to prepare us for our final peice. In this short film we had to include someone walking through a door, into a room and exchanging dialouge with someone. Aswell as myself, my group included Rachel Conway and Lewis Bennet. During our peliminary project, many difficulties occured preventing us from completeing our project to the best standard. However, now it is fully completed and although it has been submitted to my blog a long while after, we pursued our project to our best standards and to a certain extent it was not us as a team's fault.

The Editing

We used the camera to upload our film onto the Macs. Although i was new to the editing programmme iMovie, (as i used a different one for my preliminary) after i had figured out how it worked i found the process much easier. We found that there were alot of clips to be deleted as we did retakes to make sure we got the best quality of shot, however once we had cut out the main chunks we began with the proper editing. Also, as we used match-on-action to link scenes so we had to ensure the end result was seemless and made sense. Overall, we all feel pleased with the outcome of the process, and its quality met our expectations.

The Filming

Me and my group began filming on the 14th of December. We chose to use my house as the set and added to it using props relating to Mise en Scene in order to create the right feel for student housing. We felt that with full commitment we could complete the filming in one day, especially as we had to begin early in the morning in order to make most of the sunlight. We had trouble with the camera as we were missing a part of the tripod, however we still managed to complete shooting after about 3 hours. Overall we feel the production went well despite the faulty camera and misjudgements with the type of shot, for example, overestimating the space available leading us to restrain from a long-shot to a mid-shot in some scenes.