Film questions

1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
I worked with Bradley Cooke Catchside and Josh Irons. We decided for Bradley to the majority of the filming and for myself and Josh to do the majority of the editing on iMovie.

2. How did you plan your short filmed piece? Did you use any other films for your inspiration?

For our short film we created a story board. this gave us a clear outline of what to do, where to do it and in what order. We used a horror stalker affect at the start as we had frequent shots of someone walking.

3. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?
We used a video camera for our task, with this we used a tri-pod to add a stediness. To edit the movie we used iMovie on the apple Mac's. We used the editing software to add transitions. shorten and organize clips and to add effects.

4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
We needed to film someone opening a door, sitting down and in converation so we planned around this. We decided on having a mysterious effect, so we would use different camera angles to others. I wanted to use a very high angle shot to show a CCTV effect.

5. Which film conventions does the piece follow? e.g. music, match on action, 180 degree rule, camera work etc

In our piece we used the 180 degree rule, this was to establish the position of people in the conversation. The music we created on garageband, it matches the action and fits in themystery genre.

6. Which does it break?
Our piece was designed to not brake the roles and fit into contemporary art of media text but we coulld have changed some things such as the ending to the conversation.

7. How did you consider mise en scene? e.g. lighting, camera work, setting, costume, props etc
The settings we chose were limited to school grounds so we decided on a wide variety of locations around the school. But we had to film on 2 seperate days of which i was in different clothes, so this looked very unproffesional. We used some chocolate fingers as props, they were used in our conversation about biscuits, which has a underlying message of when leaving something on show (biscuits) someone allways takes it and munches it away.

8. How did you consider narrative? Is there a sense of a storyline? Can any theorists be applied e.g. Barthes, Todorov, Propp, Levi Strauss

We used Barthes code such as the semantic code due to our underlying meaning of our conversation and the cultural code as the mysterious effect of the man could be assumed to be a stalker due to our culture.

9. How successful was your filmed piece? Identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?

Our variety of camera angles worked very well and our unique converation and editing skills. I would improve the introduction and ending to our conversation as it does not flow well.

10. What have you learnt about producing a short piece of film? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework?

I have learnt that completing a short piece of film is quite simple to do but take alot of time and precision, and it is alot harder to produce a good piece of film in a limited period of time. It will be significant to the rest of my coursework as i will have to prioritise my time to fit in the hours of filming.