25/01/10

In this session we began to edit our footage on premier pro. Myself and Oliver were given the task of finding the music for our clip while Sophie and Josh began to edit the clips by putting them in the correct order. We used youtube to find the music for the songs and the sound effects. We then e-mailed them to Sophie and Josh so that they could begin to place the music in the correct places and afterwards we took photos of the storyboard and brainstorm to upload to our blogs.

22/01/10

During this session myself and the rest of the group began to film our footage using the storyboard that we made in the previous sessions. We started recording the scene where Sophie is entering the room using only pan shots and tilts. The first shot we filmed was of Sophie walking towards the classroom and the camera following her using a pan shot. We placed the camera on a tripod so that the footage was steady and tilted it at a low angle so that you could only see below Sophie's waist. We then recorded the second scene which was Sophie walking towards the door with the camera facing her as she walked by it. This scene was slightly pix-elated on the camera and had to be re-filmed later on. The last shot of this scene was the tilt that we used at the end before Sophie had entered the room. We placed the camera on a tripod outside of the door, and tilted it upwards towards Sophie's face. We then recorded a close up shot of Sophie's hand pushing the door handle to be used as a cut before she enters the room.
Afterwards , we began recording the short clips of Josh in the classroom in front of the laptop so that they could be used as cuts during the extract. Our first shot was a tilt shot showing us Josh in front of his laptop smiling. We placed the camera on a tripod and tilted it downwards to reveal Josh sat down with his Laptop. We then moved on to recording the second scene of Josh from behind as he browses his laptop for valentines day ideas. We used a pan shot to go into an over the shoulder shot of Josh to view his laptops screen. Then, we used a zoom to get a close up of the screen and the text on it.
We moved onto recording the conversation between Sophie and Josh using over the shoulder and shot reverse shot. Firstly, we recorded Sophie entering the room and sitting down opposite Josh as she closes his laptop. The group decided that this scene would be best filmed in hand held to make it easier to track Sophie as she sits down. I tracked Sophie with the camera and followed her up to the point where she sits down with Josh. I then established a two shot with them both leaning in towards each other, as they spoke their lines. Afterwards, we recorded the conversation using over the shoulder shots from both point of views. We started with Sophie and recorded over her shoulder so that we were able to see Joshes reactions more clearly to what was being said. We then swapped to go to Josh's point of view instead and recorded over his shoulder this time. We were then told that we should use a close up on each of the characters faces during the conversation to see more emotion and reaction to what was being said. So, we started with filming Sophie's close up over Joshes shoulder. We zoomed in so that we could only see Sophie's face and expressions during the conversation, while we could still hear Josh talking to her. We swapped around again so this time we were recording Josh's close up in the conversation over Sophie's shoulder.
Having now finished recording all of our scenes, we were shown how to upload our video onto premier pro and where to save it and also how to select the scenes we wanted from the camera so that we were ready to edit next session.

Brainstorm and Storyboard

Above is the brainstorm that myself and the rest of the group made in order to get some ideas about what we could make for our preliminary task. We came up with the plot, location, camera angles, sound effects and props that we would use in our extract.

This is the storyboard that our group made about our short clip of film. We went through scene by scene and plotted which camera angles will be most efficient and effective in each part of the film sequence. We also added cues for sound effects and music in between each of the panels as well.

18/01/10

During this lesson we started off by continuing our storyboard and deciding which camera shots will be appropriate for each seperate scene. We were struggling slightly with imagining how each shot would look, so we decided to film the first couple of scenes in the sequence to see whether or not they were suitable. We recorded the first three scenes of Sophie walking towards the door by using a Pan shot to follow her. These filmed scenes were only a rough idea of how each of the camera shots looked, this was so that we would be able to get a better idea of which ones looked appropriate for the scene. Afterwards, we went back into the classroom and finished off our storyboards and decided which shots should be used in each part.

15/01/10

This lesson we were introduced to our new project. We were given an explanation of the course and what we are required to do. We were told that before we were to begin our main filming task, we had to create a small film sequence as a preliminary task to experiment with the filming and camera techniques. I was grouped with Oliver, Sophie and Josh for the preliminary task and we began to create and plot our storyline of a girl walking into a room and breaking up with her boyfriend. So, we decided to record some of the scenes where Sophie walks into the room to give us some ideas about what shots work well and which shots are less effective. We recorded the first shot of a low angle pan following Sophie as she heads towards the room. We had finished our brainstorm of ideas and had just started to create our storyboard before the lesson ended.