Unit 22: Diary Entries

08/11/12:

In this lesson we discussed the different types of camera angles, shots and sound.

15/11/12:

In this lesson we discussed the different objectives that would have to be completed for our 1 minute short film and started on some of the points.

Tasks:

-Identify your audience-

-Determine what you are trying to tell-

-Story needs to interesting and creative-

-Needs to have a clear objective-

-Come up with a proposal/treatment-

-Come up with a story board including a beginning, middle and end-

-Mood/Genre examples-

-How will the acting convey the feeling-

-Mood board-

-Mise-en-scene/props/setting/style-

-Narrative structure,linear/non-linear-

-Shot list, what camera shots are going to be used-

-Camera angles-

-Location list-

-Shooting schedule-

-Equipment/sound/lighting-

-Risk assessment-

-Budget-

-Time line-

22/11/12:

In this lesson we completed the story board and story layout for our preliminary production. We also discussed the genre and mood of our short film. Risk assessment was completed.


29/11/12:

In this lesson we started the shooting schedule, mis-en-scene, sharing work and updating blogs and finalising the location for our 1 minute short film.


06/12/12:

In this lesson we looked through each others blogs and suggested improvements that could be made to improve our work layout and contents.


13/12/12:

In this lesson I cleaned up my blog and broke down some of the larger paragraphs to decrease the amount of stress to the eyes, I will also be adding in pictures and video links for appropriate paragraphs.

20/12/12:

In this lesson myself and the group went over the story and finalised the location. However since we all had exams in the next few weeks we had to spend some time on the revision of our exams.

27/12/12:

In this lesson we added things to our blogs and made the text for the storyboard more clear and simple to understand.

03/01/13:

In this lesson we finalised the planning for our 1 minute film production. We then decided to go to the location to make sure that it is the right place, and has the correct configuration.

10/01/13:

In this lesson some of the students in our group, including myself, had exams and so we were unable to go out and film as we only had 2 people left in the group. blog improvements were then made to compensate for the loss of filming time.

17/01/13:

In this lesson we went out to film the location for our opening sequence for the film that would be used to introduce our 1 minute film.

24/01/13:

In this lesson we went to the location for our film, got the props needed, rubber chicken, and then started to film our 1 minute single camera film. However, we could not get balloons, so this prop was scrapped. During the filming process we also tweaked our storyboard by changing the scene at which the child knocks the door and gets scared away, to a scene at which there is a beggar outside wanting money, we also changed the cricket bat into a stick, as there were no cricket bats that we could use.

31/01/13:

In this lesson we started to edit our 1 minute film with its numerous videos from different angles. We then also decided that we didn't need the film for the opening sequence and just decided to have the logo alone. we also started to record the various sounds that would be needed for the film.

07/02/13:

In this lesson we carried on with editing our single camera production, we then finished our media production and we made sure that all the sounds and other effects were according to the right video clips tat were put into the program.