Thursday, 21 October 2010

Preliminary assessment - Lewis Jefferson's blog

Our finished work showed that we should successful use and hold a steady shot and we have proven this a few times in our movie clip. I believe all our shots have been framed properly because in every shot we gave enough head room and also enough Lead room as the shot didn't looked poor and also we could she where the actor was going without needing to pan or tilt. We used a variety of camera shots though out our clip, for example we used; a point of view, long shot, close up, tacking, over he shoulder shot etc. We used the Grid on the camera to help us with composition techniques so we could put the actor in the gold eye view. We also made sure we followed the 180 degree so that the audience wasn't confused with the location and actors position.

I believe that the during editing we did the best we could to make sure that the continuity was good and all the shots flowed together, this was successful... however, at one point there was a slight error, this was when I was walking back to the wall and then on the next shot I had my head in my hands and we never saw how the actor got there. Other than that the rest of the movie clip flowed extremely well together.

When doing the film we didn't really sit down and decide on props, clothes etc but we had a rough idea, such as the actor had to wear smart cloths to show that he has a good job and is rich, but the main prop was the bracelet, this had to be shiny and clean to show that it has an important purpose even though in this case its a bad one. We chose the Arb as our location for two reasons; we thought it would be a good place to shoot because it had everything we needed to film and also it was where the group filmed the original movie so we thought it would make it easier, which it did. When we came to choosing actors we were slightly let down because the actor we was going to use let us down on two occasions so when it came down to the last day and he didn't turn up I had to take the role. This meant I didn't get much time behind the camera but I made up for that by editing the finally clip.

My contribution to the film I believe was a big contribution because I did a lot of the planning and even though I didn't do the camera work I made up for that fact by doing the majority of the editing. I took pictures of the mock shots for the planning and also I looked for good locations to film. If we was going to do this movie again we would make a few changes, for starters we will and try get a reliable actor so he/she could of been in the film so i could of got a chance of doing work behind the camera, and also we would consider costumes and make up to make it seem like the actor fits the part better. One improvement could be to film more shots for each section so we pick out of a selection which one is the best one.  When it comes down to our finally coursework film I am considering changing genre's from Physiological to a different genre, this is because I would like to experience more than one type of film so I could get the chance to do other things.   

Jeffoooo :)

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