Our brief was to design and create a piece of media that showed a person entering a room and having a conversation with a person in there waiting for them.
Once myself and my group finished our original storyboard together and set about filming our second preliminary piece. In our piece we decided that we were going to film the build up to entering the room, then we were going to film the conversation as inspiration hit us.
We started with a high angle shot of the character - Dan - walking around the side of the building, this shot then faded into another long shot of the character walking through the English area - this time from a different angle - we then decided that we were going to move into the English area of the school, here we decided that we would show the character walking over the camera and out of the door at the far end of the corridor, we did this through the use of a low angle shot of the character's legs and their feet. We then decided that we were going to move to the action sequence into the H Block corridor, he we were going to film a long shot of the character walking down the corridor from a series of different angles.
Whilst filming the piece, collectively, we decided that we were going to attempt to add the use of narrative codes within the piece of filming we created. The most obvious code that we used with the Enigma code which is placed in our piece to try and make the audience question as to why exactly the first character is on his way to meet the second.
After school we decided that we were going to go down to the French area of the school - a place that, from experience, we knew would be virtually deserted - he was used the Teacher's Assistant's room to use the door handle, we filmed this sequence several times from a variety of different angles - we started with a long shot, then a high angle shot, then a close up of the door handle being turned - as the room we were using was being used for an after school meeting we decided to use the room next to it, in here we had the second character - Josh - using the computer and then waiting for Dan to come in. We decided that we were going to try and use two point of view shots of each of the characters as they see the other enter the room. As the two divulge in their conversation, uses of a two shots and mid-shots and the majority of our piece is shown as these two shots flip between one and other on the 180 degree rule.
Overall, we worked well as a group. The only issue that occured during filming was that as it was after school we all had an issue that we was that the timings we had seemed very limited as we had already run over the allocated time and we just wanted to finish filming. Another issue that we had came when arguments arose in our group, however the majority of these were retified through coming to a so-called "happy medium" within our group.
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Friday 25 September 2009
Preliminary Filming.
Our main brief for our preliminary task was to design - and eventually film - a short piece of media which shows somebody coming into a room, sitting down and then having a conversation with a person that is already situated in the room with them. This piece would be marked accordingly and the results given in our frequent grading system.
In our group, we discussed possible situations that would mean that a person would come through a door and have a conversation with another; the normality of a date or a meeting through to the almost unbelievable with a plot between two baddies to take over the world!
We decided that we were going to draw a few brief sketches; the story that we have currently tells the story of the two characters, one of the characters is running to meet somebody in an empty, unused room and when he meets the character sitting at the table the two get into an argument, the climax of the piece shows the character being shot by the person that he is talking to, leaving the piece on a cliffhanger and using the enigma code to question why the character has been shot.
Throughout the next few weeks, Dan, Josh and myself will record and edit this piece of media using the iMovie software on the Apple Macs.
In our group, we discussed possible situations that would mean that a person would come through a door and have a conversation with another; the normality of a date or a meeting through to the almost unbelievable with a plot between two baddies to take over the world!
We decided that we were going to draw a few brief sketches; the story that we have currently tells the story of the two characters, one of the characters is running to meet somebody in an empty, unused room and when he meets the character sitting at the table the two get into an argument, the climax of the piece shows the character being shot by the person that he is talking to, leaving the piece on a cliffhanger and using the enigma code to question why the character has been shot.
Throughout the next few weeks, Dan, Josh and myself will record and edit this piece of media using the iMovie software on the Apple Macs.
Tuesday 22 September 2009
1st Practical Piece.
Our first practical piece was to set up and record and piece of video that incorporated the camera angles used in everyday pieces of media. We were giving the task of designing a brief storyboard that we decided was going to develop a quick idea that we had all agreed on, we were then we were given free control over what exaclty we recorded.
We decided that we were going to develop the idea of a person being stalked and then chased throughout the school. In our piece, I designated myself as the director; with Dan and Josh given the jobs of actors.
We began with a pan and high angle shot as you see the victim - Dan - in the piece leaving Auburn Place being followed by the character of the stalker - Josh - through the building. The next shot shows the pair leaving Auburn Place with a long shot and then a two shot of the two characters together. Again, the camera cuts and we see a close up of the victims face as he realises he is being stalked; the final scene shows the two characters chasing each other with a long shot through a pan.
Throughout the filming of our piece we had a few problems and diruptions. For example; when it came to filming the pieces over again - we tried to film each piece twice - the continuality was a little off, in the first scene we filmed in Auburn Place, people were shown in the scene, the next scene this people had either left or moved to the other side of the building.
When it came down to editing, we used a famous Muse song - Stokeholme Syndrome - when we came to editing, we decided that we were going to add a series of quick cuts to incorporate the music playing in the background.
Although Dan took over as the main editor of the video, both myself and Josh decided that we would add our own creative imput and together we all developed our own unique idea of the original concept.
This is our finished piece below. Unfortunately, due to YouTube's coppyright laws, the soundtrack has been muted.
We decided that we were going to develop the idea of a person being stalked and then chased throughout the school. In our piece, I designated myself as the director; with Dan and Josh given the jobs of actors.
We began with a pan and high angle shot as you see the victim - Dan - in the piece leaving Auburn Place being followed by the character of the stalker - Josh - through the building. The next shot shows the pair leaving Auburn Place with a long shot and then a two shot of the two characters together. Again, the camera cuts and we see a close up of the victims face as he realises he is being stalked; the final scene shows the two characters chasing each other with a long shot through a pan.
Throughout the filming of our piece we had a few problems and diruptions. For example; when it came to filming the pieces over again - we tried to film each piece twice - the continuality was a little off, in the first scene we filmed in Auburn Place, people were shown in the scene, the next scene this people had either left or moved to the other side of the building.
When it came down to editing, we used a famous Muse song - Stokeholme Syndrome - when we came to editing, we decided that we were going to add a series of quick cuts to incorporate the music playing in the background.
Although Dan took over as the main editor of the video, both myself and Josh decided that we would add our own creative imput and together we all developed our own unique idea of the original concept.
This is our finished piece below. Unfortunately, due to YouTube's coppyright laws, the soundtrack has been muted.
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