Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Preliminary Task - Character Profiles
Hanna is the first character that will be shown in the production. She is smartly dressed with the intent to find out the missing pieces of the puzzle. Her character is aggressive and meaningful and has the purpose of finding out who killed her friend and her colleague; Karen. Hanna is stubborn and also persistent, her personality shows through with her blunt body language and ‘straight to the point’ words. She has one thing on her mind and nothing will get in the way from her finding out.
Elizabeth is the second character that is seen in the production. Again the same as Hanna, she is smartly dressed and has a nervous edge about her. Her defensive tone suggests she is unsure about the situation as she is caught between Hanna’s mind and the truth. Elizabeth is also a stubborn character and is willing to fight her cause especially when lies have covered up what is rightfully correct.
Karen is the last and final character to be seen in the production. She is dressed in casual clothes and appears to be ‘normal’ compared to the other two characters. Her timid mindset and actions emphasize that she is in her own world and is oblivious to the people around her. This was caused by a freak accident in Nikosia which has now impacted her life as she isn’t 100% right in her head. Karen is suspected dead but is revealed at the end leaving the production on a cliff hanger.
Preliminary Task - Filming
I think that during filming we worked well together as a team.
I was the director, Alexander Mulley is the editor, producer and did the sound during filming, Ryan Denney was the camera operator.
We had to make a lot of decisions on location as it turned out that we were not expecting. Such as, how to change the shots slightly so that we didn't get any members in public in shot. Also, one of our actors didn't show up and at such short notice we couldn't get anyone else to act in our production so i had to play the smallest part in our film, which is obviously not ideal.
Throughout the filming process, even though we had quite a few issues to overcome i think that as a team we worked well at doing this calmly.
I was the director, Alexander Mulley is the editor, producer and did the sound during filming, Ryan Denney was the camera operator.
We had to make a lot of decisions on location as it turned out that we were not expecting. Such as, how to change the shots slightly so that we didn't get any members in public in shot. Also, one of our actors didn't show up and at such short notice we couldn't get anyone else to act in our production so i had to play the smallest part in our film, which is obviously not ideal.
Throughout the filming process, even though we had quite a few issues to overcome i think that as a team we worked well at doing this calmly.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Preliminary Task - Camera Skills
What are the benefits of using a tripod and shooting multi-camera?
A tripod allows you to films shots very steadily and to achieve much smoother shots, like panning shots, than when just holding the camera. Without a tripod, the shots you film can be very unsteady and inappropriate for the scene and situation your attempting to film. However, in certain situations, such as a point of view shot in a chase scene, holding the camera would probably work much better.
Shooting multi-camera involves two or more cameras and allows you to save time and is particularly effective when shooting shots such as 'shot/reverse shots' as if an actor says their line particularly well then you have that same line from different angles and don't have to re-shoot from another angle with the likely hood being that the actor will not say the line in the same way. Therefore, shooting multi-camera can improve the continuity of your film, for example, if when shooting with a single camera a female actress tucks her hair behind one ear between takes you will have a continuity error that would be avoided when shooting multi-camera. Shooting multi-camera is particularly effective when filming conversations.
A tripod allows you to films shots very steadily and to achieve much smoother shots, like panning shots, than when just holding the camera. Without a tripod, the shots you film can be very unsteady and inappropriate for the scene and situation your attempting to film. However, in certain situations, such as a point of view shot in a chase scene, holding the camera would probably work much better.
Shooting multi-camera involves two or more cameras and allows you to save time and is particularly effective when shooting shots such as 'shot/reverse shots' as if an actor says their line particularly well then you have that same line from different angles and don't have to re-shoot from another angle with the likely hood being that the actor will not say the line in the same way. Therefore, shooting multi-camera can improve the continuity of your film, for example, if when shooting with a single camera a female actress tucks her hair behind one ear between takes you will have a continuity error that would be avoided when shooting multi-camera. Shooting multi-camera is particularly effective when filming conversations.
In our preliminary task, part of the task is to film two characters sitting across from each other whilst exchanging a couple of lines of dialogue. This would be the perfect situation to shoot multi-camera which is what we plan to do. We also plan to use tripods whilst filming to keep are shots steady and so that any panning is smooth.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Preliminary Task - Team Work
Alexander Mulley (AJ's Blog) wrote the first draft of the script and then both me and Ryan (Ryan's Blog) helped to edit the drafts from then in so we all had equal input on how the script has evolved.
I then drew the storyboard from the shot list that AJ wrote up that me and Ryan checked.
I think that we have been working well as a team by all having input on each element and overcoming the problems that we've been having, such as our actors dropping out at the last minute. We rescheduled the shoot after this, unfortunately one of the actors then became ill and so we couldn't film again and then our location (Peterborough Central Library) became unavailable. We are now enquiring about using Yaxley Library instead, have begun to discuss with other students about acting in our production and hope to film over the next few days.
I then drew the storyboard from the shot list that AJ wrote up that me and Ryan checked.
I think that we have been working well as a team by all having input on each element and overcoming the problems that we've been having, such as our actors dropping out at the last minute. We rescheduled the shoot after this, unfortunately one of the actors then became ill and so we couldn't film again and then our location (Peterborough Central Library) became unavailable. We are now enquiring about using Yaxley Library instead, have begun to discuss with other students about acting in our production and hope to film over the next few days.
Preliminary Task - 1st Storyboard
This is our 1st storyboard. It is necessary to redo the storyboard as we are having to change our filming location as Peterborough Central Library are now refurbishing. We are now planning to use Yaxley library.
Preliminary Task - Using Scribd
I spoke to another student in my class who new how to use Scribd.com so that i could make my blog more interactive and interesting when uploading documents.
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