The final edit of our short film 'The Stuff' can be found on YouTube via Megan's channel 'MegsMedia':
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Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Preliminary Task- Evaluation
After the film was finished, we uploaded it to Megan's YouTube channel so that it was able to be viewed by anyone and can be easily embedded into our blogs.
Now that the entire production of our preliminary film has been completed, I can reflect on how I felt the production of the film has gone. Altogether, I believe that it was a very successful production to say that we planned, filmed and edited it all in the space of a week. I think that one of the reasons that our group worked well together was because before we were put together we all knew each other which made it easy to communicate between one-another and get all of our ideas across to each other wasn't a problem.
I felt that our planning for the preliminary task went very well because we had many ideas for how the film was going to be which made it easy to produce a mind map with some initial ideas for the film. The storyboard was illustrated by myself and Edward and I feel that it went very well because we were able to finish it in a short space of time and it gave a clear idea of the plot to the film. The one thing that I felt was wrong with the storyboard was that it lacked any writing to tell the viewer what the characters are saying which makes it fairly difficult to interpret the storyboard.
I was extremely happy with how the filming went for the film since we were very efficient with time and manged to get everything we needed filmed in the space of approximately an hour. The only problem with the filming was that mine and Edwards acting was not up to a high standard but thats's not what we were expecting in our preliminary task so it isn't much of a problem. This is noticed in some stages of the film such as near the beginning where for a slight moment it is noticeable that Ed is looking directly into the camera lens and when I pull my gun out of my pocket it is obvious that I am struggling to pull it out.
The stage that I was most unhappy with during the production of the short film was the editing stage. As a group we thought it would be a good idea to split off into pairs, Edward and I were in control of finding music and sound effects that we could use in the film on the internet whereas Hannah and Megan were in charge of editing the movie. Because of this I feel that Edward and I had a much smaller role in the editing stage of the film which wasn't what either of us really wanted since we felt as though we were relying on Megan and Hannah to do the majority of the work.
Now that the entire production of our preliminary film has been completed, I can reflect on how I felt the production of the film has gone. Altogether, I believe that it was a very successful production to say that we planned, filmed and edited it all in the space of a week. I think that one of the reasons that our group worked well together was because before we were put together we all knew each other which made it easy to communicate between one-another and get all of our ideas across to each other wasn't a problem.
I felt that our planning for the preliminary task went very well because we had many ideas for how the film was going to be which made it easy to produce a mind map with some initial ideas for the film. The storyboard was illustrated by myself and Edward and I feel that it went very well because we were able to finish it in a short space of time and it gave a clear idea of the plot to the film. The one thing that I felt was wrong with the storyboard was that it lacked any writing to tell the viewer what the characters are saying which makes it fairly difficult to interpret the storyboard.
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| Mine and Edwards storyboard |
I was extremely happy with how the filming went for the film since we were very efficient with time and manged to get everything we needed filmed in the space of approximately an hour. The only problem with the filming was that mine and Edwards acting was not up to a high standard but thats's not what we were expecting in our preliminary task so it isn't much of a problem. This is noticed in some stages of the film such as near the beginning where for a slight moment it is noticeable that Ed is looking directly into the camera lens and when I pull my gun out of my pocket it is obvious that I am struggling to pull it out.
The stage that I was most unhappy with during the production of the short film was the editing stage. As a group we thought it would be a good idea to split off into pairs, Edward and I were in control of finding music and sound effects that we could use in the film on the internet whereas Hannah and Megan were in charge of editing the movie. Because of this I feel that Edward and I had a much smaller role in the editing stage of the film which wasn't what either of us really wanted since we felt as though we were relying on Megan and Hannah to do the majority of the work.Preliminary Task- Editing
After we had finished recording all of the shots that we needed to produce our short film, we decided to move on to editing the movie and finishing off our preliminary task.
Edward and myself used the website 'FreeSound' to source the background music that we needed for the film. We used 'FreeSound' because it has thousands of different sound clips uploaded by many different people and musicians, it is also free to download all of the sounds on 'FreeSound' and all of the sound clips are copyright free which meant that we were free to use them in our film without breaking any of the copyright laws.
As a group we decided to split into pairs for the post-filming production of our film which meant that Ed and myself were in charge of finding different sounds for the movie whereas Hannah and Megan were in charge of editing the film. If I were to do this again, I wouldn't have had the group split up because I felt that myself and Ed had a lot less input in the final production of the movie as we would have liked to, I will take this into account when it comes to producing my final piece so that I make sure that I have as much input on the editing as I can so that I don't feel as though I am letting someone else do the work for me. This seperation of tasks also meant that I was unable to learn any new things and improve my editing skills which will hinder my progress when it comes to editing my final piece.
For the editing of the movie, we used Adobe Premiere Pro because it has many different features and effects that would be good for our movie and it is also fairly simple to use compared to other editing softwares such as 'Sony Vegas Pro'. Also Megan was familiar with the software which meant that she found it easy when editing the clips.
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| Edward and myself sourcing music of 'FreeSound' |
As a group we decided to split into pairs for the post-filming production of our film which meant that Ed and myself were in charge of finding different sounds for the movie whereas Hannah and Megan were in charge of editing the film. If I were to do this again, I wouldn't have had the group split up because I felt that myself and Ed had a lot less input in the final production of the movie as we would have liked to, I will take this into account when it comes to producing my final piece so that I make sure that I have as much input on the editing as I can so that I don't feel as though I am letting someone else do the work for me. This seperation of tasks also meant that I was unable to learn any new things and improve my editing skills which will hinder my progress when it comes to editing my final piece.
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| Megan editing the movie on Adobe Premiere Pro |
For the editing of the movie, we used Adobe Premiere Pro because it has many different features and effects that would be good for our movie and it is also fairly simple to use compared to other editing softwares such as 'Sony Vegas Pro'. Also Megan was familiar with the software which meant that she found it easy when editing the clips.
Preliminary Task- Filming
On the 4th November, Megan, Edward, Hannah and myself began to film our preliminary film and completed it all within one day since there was only around 2 minutes worth of footage that needed to be captured.
As a group we decided that the best location that we could use for filming would be in our schools 'studio' because the low light in the room would help to create a darker atmosphere and it is less crowded with tables, chairs and computers than the rest of the rooms around the school.
Before we began to film the preliminary film, we decided that Megan should be in charge of filming every shot in the clip since we all agreed that she is the most capable with a camera and Edward and myself weren't able to record the shots since we featured in the majority of the shots.
We attempted to use as many camera angles as possible, such as a POV shot, an over the shoulder shot, and a two shot.
Since we finished all of our filming in one day, we allowed ourselves more time to edit the film and correct any mistakes that were made.
As a group we decided that the best location that we could use for filming would be in our schools 'studio' because the low light in the room would help to create a darker atmosphere and it is less crowded with tables, chairs and computers than the rest of the rooms around the school.
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| Myself checking that the lighting in the room was ok through the camera's perspective |
Before we began to film the preliminary film, we decided that Megan should be in charge of filming every shot in the clip since we all agreed that she is the most capable with a camera and Edward and myself weren't able to record the shots since we featured in the majority of the shots.
We attempted to use as many camera angles as possible, such as a POV shot, an over the shoulder shot, and a two shot.
Since we finished all of our filming in one day, we allowed ourselves more time to edit the film and correct any mistakes that were made.
Preliminary Task- Planning
For our preliminary task, we were assigned into groups of four by our teachers, my group consisted of Edward Barker, Megan Russell, Hannah Jarvis and myself. To begin our preliminary task, we created a mind map to give us a basic idea of what our short clip would be like. On our mind map, we wrote down some basic ideas for different shots, what types of editing we would be using, the props we would need for the clip and the names and costumes that our characters would be wearing.
We went with the first title for a film we thought of, 'The Stuff'. The movie title wasn't very creative but left some mystery in the plot of the film, also we didn't want to spend a lot of time on the title of the film since it wasn't our final piece of work. To summarise the plot for this short film, it is about two people played by Edward and myself who's roles in the clip remain ambiguous and it is never revealed which one of the two is the protagonist and antagonist. I played the role of Tony Zagrafos whereas Edward played 'Mr G'. The plot of the clip was that Tony Zagrafos had been sent to Mr G to collect an ambiguous object (The Stuff), but the plan doesn't succeed and ends with Mr G killing Tony Zagrafos. We also wrote a short script and produced a storyboard to make it easier to make the clip when it comes to recording it. The script and the storyboard are shown below.
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| Our mind map we made to write down some initial ideas for our short clip |
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| Our script for 'The Stuff' |
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| Our storyboard we created for 'The Stuff' |
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