Preliminary Task- Post Production

After the Production stage of our task we had one more stage until it was complete. This was the editing of the raw footage we had filmed. I was extremely new to this as i had never used the program that we edited the film on. Although i found that after watching my other group members that were much more familiar with the program i quickly picked up how to cut and edit the footage. We all had an equal share in editing, so this meant that it was done fairly quickly. Whislt editing as a group this made us notice many downfalls that we had when filming. Such as continuity, dead space, and zooming in to much so that the filming looked of a very bad quality. One thing that we found hard in the editing stage was adding music to our clip. The reason for this is that we had to cut it, and then stop it when the dialogue was introduced, and then once again let it play towards the end.

All in all i think that we worked very well as a group for a first time task. I especially think this because we were all very new to each part of the task. I have personally picked up brief editing and filming skills. The roles that i took in the group was a fair amount of filming, a shared amount of editing, helping to choose music, and also creating part of our storyboard. When doing our next task i will be taking all of the errors and mistakes into considersation. I have learnt that filming is definitely not as easy as it looks and even in very simple short clips, slip ups are incredibly easy to see and editing has to be done correctly to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

This is our overall finished product.

Preliminary Task- Production

The production part of our task was to shoot our short film following another groups storyboard. When we began to film, our group did slightly struggle as none of us were confident with using a camera to shoot a small clip like that one we were set. Whilst filming we took into a lot of consideration of where to place the camera and at what level we should be filming at. Problems that we came across were getting the accuracy correct when zooming and moving from one shot to another.

Continuity was particuarly hard as myself and the rest of the group did not realise small factors that effected this. For example walking into one room from another the lighting would change, and also one mistake that we made was having the blinds up, then filming the next clip with the blind down which did create a problem.

The production part of the task i thought was very enjoyable. Skills that i feel i have picked up during this are, that i am going to be able to zoom much more accurately next time i use the camera and also watching out for dead space around characters and objects will be considered. When filming next time i will refer back to the mistakes made in this task, and consider how to change them to create a good final piece.

Preliminary Task- Pre Production

We chose to work in a group of four during our task. We had to shoot a short film which had to include, someone walking down a corridor, walking through a door and short peice of dialogue with someone else.

We first of all we had to create a story board. As a group we planned and drew out a story board of our film. When doing this we had to put into consideration which camera angles we were going to be using and did our best to make that clear when creating each shot. It also needed to include continuity, and character postions.

Skills that i have picked up from pre production, is that when creating a story board next time it must be must more detailed and accurate. Also being able to draw accurately isn't a key part of creating a good story board as i have realised they need to be simple and easy to understand.

These were our groups finished storyboards. The details on these have not been made clear enough and minor and major details have been missed out. I realise that when i come to draw a story board for my next piece of work i must make sure that the information is as clear to someone else as it is to me. I now know this from swapping our groups story boards with another and slightly struggling to follow it when doing the practical.