When we first began our coursework planning for the preliminary excercise, I was a little worried about how much we had to do in relation to how long we had to do it in. However, after we had created a production scedule I think the whole group felt better about where we were and what we needed to do. Initial ideas were brainstormed and we came up with our final idea to film a short meeting between two hitmen.
When deciding our roles within the group we tried to match everyone as best we could, for example David has experience with a camera and has his own, so he is our camera man. I am editor as I have edited videos on Windows Movie Maker before, however I would like to develop my editing skills so that we can make our main excercise film look as professional as possible, even though we are all amateurs. I also aim to improve my angles/shots vocabulary and to experiment when we come to film the main excercise. I have already learnt a lot about what's involved when preparing to film, including how to produce a SWOT analysis, how to produce a call sheet, and how to carry out a risk assessment.
I feel we are making good progress and am pleased with the outcome of our filming afternoon this wednesday gone. After a slight setback when one of our actors didn't show due to illness, we soon found an actress to take his place and adapted the script to the situation. We also couldn't use dress codes to reinforce the characters roles because our actress replaced our ill actor last minute so we didn't have time to find a suitable outfit.
The next stage is to edit our film. As editor this is primarily my job, but the whole group will have an impact on the final film. We have already chosen which takes to use (we took several of each shot) and hope that they flow smoothly when we put them onto Windows Movie Maker.
Links:
Production Schedule Plan
SWOT Analysis
Initial Ideas
Origianl Script
Storyboards
Props
Risk Assessment
Friday 29 January 2010
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