Friday, 16 October 2009
Evaluation 16/10/09
At the planning stage of this exercise, I think I came up with a few good ideas but could have developed them further to really get a good variety of ideas to choose from. While doing the storyboard we included camera angles and speech for the actors we could have included some more detain on directions. Although we used our initiative and used what we found around us as props we could have thought this out a bit more and brought in some props which might have made the film more realistic. I think everyone accepted and embraced their roles well. Daisy made a good director following the storyboard and picking us up on anything we could improve. Olly made a good cameraman really thinking about angles and effects and taking constructive input from the team to produce an effective film. I think with no experience the acting was pretty dire it was hard to concentrate I think next time research needs to be done on how to act.
Problems within our work were maybe we could have chosen a better location although the college building had everything we needed it may have looked better if we had had more of a run-down building. Another problem was the rooms we chose, we did not check they were free before we used them and interruptions sometimes got in the way or affected the end result. We also didn't think about timings of each shot as much as we should have. We accidentally filmed our first three shots in one go and should have thought about how we were shooting beforehand to prevent this happening. Strengths within our work were the camera angles and shots we achieved. I think these went quite well and improved our end result.
Our work was influenced by the people in the group. We all wanted to achieve suspense in the film an so all input ideas to help this. We were also influenced by events that have happened in our lifetimes and recent films and documentaries. Certainly the twin towers and recent films about extreme world-ending weather came into all our minds during our mind-mapping of the title "after the storm". The purpose of our work I believe is to experiment with all aspects of film making as you do not realise the planning that goes into making a film when you just watch one. It has shown me there is a lot more to film making than I assumed and It's not as easy as you would assume.
I have learnt I need to research a lot and improve research methods to produce a good film. Also I need to structure my time and planning. From doing this project I have learnt how to work with equipment I am not familiar with.
I think my team worked well together although our film could have done with more structure as it wasn't as clear as we had hoped. The finished film was alright and we got all the camera angles and shots that we planned. next time we do a film like this I would consider.
Problems within our work were maybe we could have chosen a better location although the college building had everything we needed it may have looked better if we had had more of a run-down building. Another problem was the rooms we chose, we did not check they were free before we used them and interruptions sometimes got in the way or affected the end result. We also didn't think about timings of each shot as much as we should have. We accidentally filmed our first three shots in one go and should have thought about how we were shooting beforehand to prevent this happening. Strengths within our work were the camera angles and shots we achieved. I think these went quite well and improved our end result.
Our work was influenced by the people in the group. We all wanted to achieve suspense in the film an so all input ideas to help this. We were also influenced by events that have happened in our lifetimes and recent films and documentaries. Certainly the twin towers and recent films about extreme world-ending weather came into all our minds during our mind-mapping of the title "after the storm". The purpose of our work I believe is to experiment with all aspects of film making as you do not realise the planning that goes into making a film when you just watch one. It has shown me there is a lot more to film making than I assumed and It's not as easy as you would assume.
I have learnt I need to research a lot and improve research methods to produce a good film. Also I need to structure my time and planning. From doing this project I have learnt how to work with equipment I am not familiar with.
I think my team worked well together although our film could have done with more structure as it wasn't as clear as we had hoped. The finished film was alright and we got all the camera angles and shots that we planned. next time we do a film like this I would consider.
Production 09/10/09
We started off by going through our storyboard to see if there were any last minute changes that needed to be made. We filled out a time sheet to say how long we should spend on each shot and where we would be in the building for it. We started in a room which we had knocked over chairs to set the scene. The two actors started lying down and woke up with our first shot being a long-shot. Our first 3 shots were accidentally combined but they were a long shot to set the scene and a mid shot of the actors exploring the room and trying to get out.
In our next few shots we tried to follow the storyboard to include a close up and over the shoulder shot, in the over the shoulder shot running down the stairs the effect created was panic and rushing. These went as planned and I feel we created good suspense. In our last few shots we wanted to achieve a cliff hanger leaving the audience wondering what happened I think this was effective.
In our next few shots we tried to follow the storyboard to include a close up and over the shoulder shot, in the over the shoulder shot running down the stairs the effect created was panic and rushing. These went as planned and I feel we created good suspense. In our last few shots we wanted to achieve a cliff hanger leaving the audience wondering what happened I think this was effective.
Pre-production 25/09/09
In this lesson we had to plan for our film. We had a group discussion and bounced ideas around of possibilities for our film. Some of the ideas we came up with were hypothetically "after the storm" and some were literally. We decided to go with literally after the storm but left what kind of storm it was up to the audience, we wanted to create suspense and get the audience interested so we thought of using a build up and a cliff hangar at the end. We made our storyboards and tried to include detail like speech and camera movements to make shooting easier on the day.
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