Sophia's Evalutaion

During the preliminary I learnt various techniques with both the camera and with I movie. The overall film turned out a lot better then I expected, we gathered up a lot of footage, to enable us to have a lot more options when it came to editing. Though there were still minor mistakes that we could of thought through better, little details like curtains and background settings. I didn’t really have a major role in the making of the film, just directing the group adapting our storyboard to make it slightly more interesting as I tried to take several bits of footage and it was really quite terrible also scouted for locations to use, I also updated the blog several times. On account of my terrible filming I left Beth and Rachel to do filming and Amy was our actress she also contributed a lot to the editing. As group I think we worked well together helping each other understand how to establish different shots, and inputting ideas.

Throughout the exercise I learnt how hard and how much time it took to create one minute of footage, having to film the same sequence again and again but from different positions to have sufficient amount to edit, to create a ‘match on action’ or ‘shot reverse shot’. We kept up the continuity by not filming outside when the weather was bad as our first few shots were when it was sunny and then having Amy wear the same clothes throughout the filming.

We didn’t use any artificial lighting and really only relied on natural light though I did attempt to use one of those things that the light reflects off, I don’t think it contributed much to the sequence. I was impressed with the locations we used, the fact that didn’t let on too much that we were in a college.

I was impressed with the shots that we, we paid special attention to the 180 rule and always thought about the side we were shooting from previously to then continue shooting. We also used match on action a couple of times, which were ok, though it took several minutes of footage to get enough to edit. Though the filming went well there were little details that could of been thought through like the curtains in the background.

The sounds we used are non diagetic, just a basic soundtrack and then we used the sounds that we recorded whilst we were filming, if we knew how to use garage band then we would of used that to create stronger sounds.

In conclustion, i think we all worked well together, and created a good peice of work, all contributing in some way.