Half term break.

Unfortunately during this week off of college, we haven't been able to meet up or do any more work than what we already have got so far, this is due to the fact that each of us are in different places, so it's difficult to meet up as it is, but, we also have work at different times during this week and the fact that we only have 3 people in our group doesn't help as we can't actually do much filming with just the two of us so we feel as if we need the entire group there before we can actually decide anything more. We discussed before the half term begun that the first media lesson back we'll go off and do some more work in that time and also possibly after school. So I shant be uploading anything for this week.

Planning for preliminary

where- school
what about- someone goes to the canteen and buys some food
- walks along the path outside, walk through the sliding doors, then through the second door.
- walks towards the canteen and ask for some food.

conversation
a- hi what would you like
b- hay can I have a can of coke please?
a- sure that’d be 70p please..
b- there you go, thank you! 
 
person b walks away.

shooting- first part is being shot inside looking out of the window watching the person walk up to the door. We then see the person walk through the sliding doors and through a door that you have to push/ pull. The camera will be in front of the person and we will see them walking towards us, the camera will then be over the shoulder of the person while the canteen staff are talking. It then changes as each person speaks.


so far we haven’t story boarded our scene due to the fact we haven’t had enough time as a group to get together and do some shots but we will be doing that at a later date.

Storyboard

As a homework task I went away and watched the first two minutes of a film and story board about it, I chose to storyboard the film Australia, I did this on a few sheets of paper, drew a few pictures of what the shot looked like. I wrote about the shots used, the amount of time each shot was kept on screen for, the camera movement used such as still- slow- fast, whether or not the shot has a soundtrack behind it and also the dialogue used. This task I believe was to show us how much camera work is actually used in a short amount of time in a film, it also showed me how much detail obviously went into planning and shooting it, as the film maker had to shoot it in the Australian outback to keep in with the films theme, otherwise the entire films feel and effect would be completely destroyed.

Lessons.

11-10-2011's lesson-
In today's lesson we got out the filming equipment- camera and tripod; We was given a list of practise shots to do, so we got into our groups and trialled and tested with various different shots varying the shot type and whether we held the camera in our hands or used a tripod to get a steady still shot. We took it in turns to practise with the camera and being shot on the camera. We got a few alright shots, but we didn't have enough time to practise enough really, so no shots taken were good enough to use in our trailer..

12-10-2011's lesson-

In today's lesson we sort of carried on with our previous work from last lesson to get a few more shots, we then as a class went back into the classroom and viewed a few groups short clips and found a few faults in them like crossing the 180degree line, cutting out vital things like people's faces, the level in which the camera is put at changed, and the camera needs to be put on a tripod if not doing tracking shots; So we discussed how we could change the shots and improve them and then went out and did a bit more filming to use instead of our original shots, but I unforntuanately run out of time in this lesson so I couldn't upload the shots, but I shall attempt to next lesson.