Film Evaluation

I worked with Jamie Webster, Emma Dimelow and Becky Baker to create my preliminary task of a short film production. We split the four of up into two small sectors, myself and jamie on acting with a few camera shot ideas, then Emma & Becky controling the cameras movement.

Are main planning was from are storyboard which we created first before we started to film, this took us half a lesson of planning and we kept to the basic guildlines. The short film we created has quite a mysterious feel and i think we were inspired from the jason bourne series of films.

The technology we used was the camera and tripod then the editing from the apple macs, imovie, to crop all clips together and smoothen the transistion.

The factors we looked at were the camera angles such as when i step over the camera. We also looked at lighting in the room we used, we thought it was to bright and decided to shut the blinds and change were the location of the tables were.

We looked at alot of camera effects, such as the 180 degree rule, we had a very good few angles on the finishing handshake which gave our film a good look of professional quality.

The mise en scene on are film was well thought through, we used the camera bag to act that it held some information that was of high importance. We also gave the room a very dark setting as this gives a more secretive feel to the audience, which fits with are formal functions of are genre.

We gave our film a sense of story with two main characters consiting of a henchmen, and a important figure with high hierarchy. This links into the barthez theory of structalism as one event leads to another.

I feel that are film went very well, it was very smoothly put together with good editing. I was very pleased with who i worked with as we all had a serious frame of mind and knew what we had to create. The one thing i would want to improve was the music, as we feel it didnt really need a cheesy track as we feel it would ruin the overall film.

I think this has helped me be inspired for my coursework piece, it gives me a idea of what i can create and in what time frame.

My School Front Page & Contents

This is my Contents for my Magazine

My School Front Page & Contents

This is the front cover for my Magazine project

Photoshop development

We have been set a task to produce a front cover of a magazine for the school. It had to be relevant to students and could be aimed at just sport, just studies or wider and for all.

I decided to keep mine wide as then i could find it easier to fill with ideas. We had to keep to guildlines such as the rule of three colours to keep it looking professional and tidy. I choose to keep to blue,green, black and dark grey. i think this worked well and im happy with my overall front cover and my contents page.

I shall upload the two pictures onto my blog so you to see.

Garage Band

We have been using the Apple Macs at school recently, once we had edited are short film clips we needed some kind of soundtrack. To do this we used the software- garage band, which is a program with ready made beats and ryhmes that we could adapt and remix to create are own soundtrack. Once we had done this we had to had it to are film, we have a slightly misterious figure so we needed a dark and slow sound which i think we created well.

i think that garage band is very 'cheesey' and i would have much preferred to use a ready made soundtrack, but we didnt have permission as it would collide with copyright issues. Infuture i think i shall browse the no copyright issue tracks as i think they will be of a higher quality, and give our video a better overall finish.

Filming and Editing

I have been currently filming with Jamie, Emma and Becky. We had to create a short film of somebody walking to a room then entering and sitting down.

We thought we could add something different to this, we had me walking down the hallways and seemingly searching for a certain room, once i had found the room we filmed all different angles and when in the editing suite we picked the one that would work the best. i entered then was greeted by Jamie who was playing the role of a important business type man. We discussed a issue then shock hands and the film faded out.

I think we worked very well as a team, we filmed some really unique angles with the camera and i think the editing went very well as we seem to have a fast tempo clips of action and a good mix of scene timings.