Post 8: Production Report

How did the shoot go? Our shoot it was hard. The reason this was is because we lost one of our group members early on which made use have to find another actor for the part plus we had to re-film the first scene and a bit of the second scene.

What problems do you encountered?  The problems that we encountered was that it was hard to get the rooms we need and the time we need them. The second problem we faced was that we lost Morgan who was our main character in the film.

How did you overcome the problems? We overcame the problems by coming together as a team and working together well. This was hard at first to sort the group out again but we managed to make a good film.

How well did you work as a team? At first we weren't a great a team as some of the members weren't taking the film seriously. This all changed when we lost the group member because we had to pull together and all work as a team as we only had three people.

What do you think of the footage you shot? I think that the footage that we shot is good but we can learn a lot from the footage and take this with us into the main task and learn from the mistakes we made and make sure we don't make them again.

Are there any areas for improvement in the technical execution? I think that we could improve a little bit, what we would do is maybe film different and harder shots to make the film look better. One we could of improved is the establishing shot because it wasn't great.

Is there anything you will need to do now as a consequence of the footage you shot? Well we had to re-film a few times and after we shot the footage we had to edit the film to get it perfect. also it was difficult to edit because we didnt get the actors entering and leaving the shot so it made it hard to edit.

Have you gone along with the rules of continuity? Yes as we have as we made the actors look the same in all the the scenes as they are all wearing the same clothes through the whole film.

Post 7: Additional Pre-production Documentation

Here we have the location recce, this is here for us to see whether the area's we have chosen are acceptable and appriote for filming. After we have done this we write a little annotation under the images to say what we will be doing within this area.

What we have here is the technical recce. We have done this so that we can see any problems that we might face and the problems that might occur when filming.

This is our risk assessment, we have done this to alert use all about the risk that are involved with filming this film.

Here we have our shooting schedule, this is here to take out with us when filming because it will show us what scenes come first and the what is next.

This is our mise-en-scene work, what this does is say everything that will be in the shot, this can be the surroundings, and what the character is wearing.

This is our equipment list which shows all of our equipment, cast and props.

Post 6: Shot List & Storyboard

These two images are the Storyboard for our film.

This is the shot list for our flim.

How we made the shot list is by getting the idea for the film  into our heads, after that we broke the idea down into sections so that we could make shot list. The idea we had thought up fell nicely into place for us making the scenes as they all rolled into each other nicely help us make the shot list.
By doing the shot list it helped us create the storyboard, the reason for this is because all the scenes are in place so therefore all we had to do is get images of the area we would be using, list the camera and character movements and the sound and scene length.

Post 5: Jump Cuts, Over-the-Shoulder Shots, Cutaways and Point of View Shots

Jump cut
 A cut to later action from one filmed scene to the next, creating an effect for the viewer or they have done it by mistake and have thought about the continuity with the film.

http://www.movies-dictionary.org/Film-and-Video-Dicitonary/Jump-Cut

This link takes us to a definition about jump cuts.

Over-The-Shoulder-Shot
With over the shoulder you normally have two people, you can see the corner of someones head and shoulder and the other persons face when they are talking. This reveals the emotions the actor is showing. You often get a reverse shot so you see the other person talking.

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/terms/overtheshoulder.html

This link takes us to a definition about Over-The-Shoulder-shot.

Cutaway
A single shot inserted into a sequence of shots that momentarily interrupts the flow of action. It is usually, although not always, followed by a cut back to the first shot. For example editors sometimes use cutaways as a means to cut out of dialogue (perhaps to shorten the dialogue) and then cut back into.

http://www.movies-dictionary.org/Film-and-Video-Dicitonary/Cutaway

This link takes us to a definition about cutaway.

point of view shot
A point of view shot is where you see the shot through the actors eyes and you see what they see.

http://www.digitalfilmarchive.net/clda/docs/PointofView.pdf

This link takes us to a definition about point of view shot.

Point of view shot

Cutaway

Over-The-Shoulder-Shot

Jump cut

script

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Continuity Editing Definition: A system of cutting used to maintain clear and continuous narrative action by following a set of rules.

Rules and benefits with continuity editing: 

Benefits: The narrative has structure, the shot sequences flow seamlessly into each other and therefore it’s easy to watch the film!

The rules:

• Establishing shot
•  Shot/reverse shot
• 180ºrule
• 30ºrule
• Crosscutting
• Match on Action
• Eye line Match
• Re-establishing shot

http://www.slideshare.net/stewedveg/continuity-editing-10739140   

This link is a website for of slides holding information for all of the camera angles/shots we have and will be talking about.

Shot/reverse shot Definition: Two shots edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation situation. Usually characters in one frame look left, and in the following frame look right.

• It may not be filmed in the correct order but will be edited together afterwards.
• Must ensure that the right amount of shots are filmed to make the ‘shot-reverse-shot’ sequence work.

180ºruleDefinition: The angle between any two consecutive shots should not exceed 180º, in order to maintain spatial relationships between people and objects in any given sequence of shots.

• When you are using the 180º rule you must make sure you dont cross the 180º line or otherwise it will look like they are both on the same side.

Match on Action Definition: A cut between two shots that places two different framings of the same action next to each other, making it seem to continue uninterrupted.

• you have to be very careful when using this technique. 

The first two images show match on action, you see the hand on the door and then in the second image you still see the hand on the door so this is good shots of match on action.

The next two images are showing shot/reverse shot, with the top image it could be cropped in a bit more so it will be more on the person like the second image is as the second image is a good shot/reverse shot image.

This last image is showing the 180º rule, what this is showing is you shouldn't go the other side of the person because it will jump in the film and it will look like the person has change sidess within the scene.

Rule Of Thirds

Here I have taken some photos myself to help get to grips with the shots sizes and framing techniques:

  Extreme Close Up

Close Up



Medium Close Up



Medium Shot
















If you would like to learn more about the "Rule Of Thirds" look at this link below and you will be able to read up more on the rule of thirds.

http://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds





3/4 Shot






                                                           


 Medium Long Shot









Long Shot




 It is important to have all of these different shot size because all of these shots allows use to capture different emotions within the character or surroundings. For example a Close Up would capture the face expressions of a person and the audience would be able to portray the emotions of these character.

Storyboard Drawing, Shot Sizes and Framing

Here I am showing different shot sizes and framing techniques. By doing this I hope to get a better understanding for shot sizes and framing techniques:

Top Left: Extreme Close Up (ECU)

Top Right: Close Up (CU)

Second Line(Left): Medium Close Up (MCU)

Second Line(Right): Medium Shot (MS)

Third Line(Left): 3/4 Shot

Third Line(Right): Medium Long Shot (MLS)


                                                                                                          Bottom: Long Shot (LS)

Preliminary Task Introduction

In our preliminary exercise we will be doing a task involving filming and editing, the criteria is:

• To be in groups no bigger than 4.
• A character opening the door.
• The character crossing the room.
• Sitting down in a chair opposite a another character.
• Finally characters must exchange a few lines of dialogue. 

 Also in this task it demonstrates match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. By doing this task it should help us get a better understanding of techniques, words and shots which will help us progress forwards in the course.