Week five catch up

This week we are planning for our main shooting weekend, we want to get it spot on so we don't have to shoot the following weekend for the back up shoot, but we're not that confident. We did everything we did before, we re-did the storyboard, by taking away and adding shots and we re-did our schedule.

We then did our real shoot, this time spencer and i had a quiet night in so we felt well when we were filming. We got the equipment we needed with the addition of paglights. This is as we wanted a beam of light in the shed instead of the whole shed being lit up.

Thia is out new shooting schedule, with the addition of shots.

We were happier with how this shooting weekend went, fingers cross we don't have to shoot next weekend.

see you next week x

Week four catch up

This week we are editing the footage we took on our practice shoot. We were introduced to our editing room, here is a picture of us in there.

We captured and then placed the footage in order. Doing this we realised we had left out a lot of shots and there were some problems with the shots aswel. for example you could see our shadows in them.

We spent alot of time in the editing room this week and eventually uploaded our video onto youtube.

There are some obvious problems with our video, the character with OCD is not acted well enough, i am the actor, i had my shirt untucked and my wall was not one of a man with OCD, acting is not my strong point. I think we're going to have to change the actor for our main media product.

What have i learnt this week?

this week i have learnt a lot about how to edit, we didn't use any effects but we got to grips with the programme we are using, i learnt how to capture the footage properly and i learnt how move around the different clips on the screen. I also learnt this week that we are going to have to plan much better for our main shooting weekend, we need to carry round the storyboard with us and use it more, and we should shoot in a chronological order. 

see you next week x

Week three catch up

This week was our planning week, we spent the whole week planning for our practise shoot on the weekend. We had three group meetings and in these meetings we sat down and got to work. We had our idea but we didn't know it shot by shot so we needed to make a storyboard.

We used three different coloured cards, green for long shot, pink for mid shot and orange for close up, this is so we could see clearly the ratio of different type of shots we have in our sequence. We also did the shooting schedule this week, this is very important as we needed to know what we were going to shoot and in what order.

 

 Then it came to the weekend and we started our practice shoot, This was very helpful as we got to grips with the equipment and found out anything we might not be able to do and we had a change to experiment with shots,  i think it wen't pretty well, we'll see on monday, but it took us a lot of time to set up and get organised around 2 hours, so when we do our real shoot we have to make sure we don't take as much time.

This is us doing the practice shoot, we were out the night before so we didn't look to well. I was weearing i suit because i was also the actor in it.

What have i learnt this week?

I have learnt that there is a lot of planning that needs to be done before we shoot the proper thing, also i have learnt that i cant go out the night before we shoot as it affects my concentration the next day. Also we learnt that we need to change the order we shoot things in as we forgot to do some shoots, i think for our main shooting weekend we should do the shots in chronological order, and then we can't forget anything. 

see you next week x