Prelinary Filming

For our preliminary filming, we were asked to make a piece of film involving someone opening a door, walking, sitting down and having a conversation with somebody. We have drawn out 16 panels in our storyboard, we are using a variety of different camera shots, including a long shot, a panning shot and a low angle shot.

On Tuesday we are going to be filming what we have planned. A good idea we have come up with, is a cctv shot. We have incorporated this by studying imovie and discovering what effects are available, we will use both of these, to create a different and unique piece.

The Following Tuesday myself, Josh and Bradley. We set up the camera with a tri pod. We had some difficulties, for example our camera we were given had technical issues, it would not record, the battery kept dying and the buttons would not function correctly. This resulted in us losing half of our filming time, so we filmed after school, we filmed a total of 20 minutes.

This consisted of us having an argument in the French block, we had difficulty finding a spare room to film in, Bradley insisted on us repeating each piece of film, so we had spare copies and we had a choice of which piece to use.

We used iMovie to edit our preliminary filming, as we filmed some very high shots on purpose, we were able to encorporate this into iMovie to give a CCTV effect and to show the audience different angles and giving the reader more confidence. We used extreme close up shots, panning shots, low angle, high angle, mid shots and long shots, to keep the audience entertained and not repetitive.

The high shot was used when the character walked underneath a walkway, this was to show us a personal view of someone witnessing the event, the low shot was used when we walked over the camera, this is to give the audience the impression of fear. The panning shot was used to give the audience a wide view of the scene, the viewer now feels confideent that he knows what is going on. The extreme close up shot is used for the door handle, it adds detail to the film and focuses our attention a key point.. We have also many close ups of the face, these are used so the audience know the expressions, shown by the characters.

Using iMovie we decided to use a different opening style to the rest of the film, this was to separate the readers attention, and to clearly show the difference between the two pieces. We used lots of titles with iMovie, these were used to introduce ourselves, the title of the piece and the the ending. They show the audience what is going on, without trying to work it out just by the film. We decided to edit the whole film into black and white, this gave the film a dark and mysterious feel, the questions the audience, saying why is it like this?

Using garageband we produced three different pieces, one for the titles, one pre-convo and one post-convo. This was used to show the feelings and emotions shown, as this is non-diagetic, it tells us it does not directly concern the film, but simply summarises it.

We had difficulty removing the external sound from the film, but after precise editing we managed to achieve this. Some external sounds were going to be saved to add effect and to make the audience feel closer to the action, but we decided it looked strange as some clips had no sound and some did, so we decided against this.