Wednesday 13 October 2010
Story board for Preliminary task
The story board consists of images of the shots we were planning to use in our preliminary task. We followed the shots quite well with very little changes as it would have made it very confusing. We added a few more shots with the two girls walking to the door and then them opening the door with a tilt. This just emphasized the film as it was another shot to use.
Title sequence remake of footloose- Evaluation
Evaluation:
For this task we had to do a remake of an opening sequence Remaking the opening of "Footloose" was an experience which I thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot from it. It was very time consuming however the finishing piece was really well made and was worth the time. My partner I worked with Debbie and I had a lot of things we had to take care of to make sure we got the filming as good as possible. We had to focus on Costumes, props, getting changed, finding the right people to work in the film and making sure they came to filming on time, make sure the filming was at right angles and it was all carried out professionally like it is our real piece. I had also learned how to cooperate with teamworkers which were debbie and one other Lauren as she appeared in one shot. This is each subject we focused on in more detail and what I learned from it all:
Filming
Costumes/Props:
Costumes was one of our most important aspects because the film uses over 24 pairs of shoes so we had to communicate with each other and bring as many shoes that would fit in with the filming progress. If forgetting one pair that we needed to use for filming would have jeopardize the whole filming as it would have taken a lot more time so we made sure we brought them all in for filming dates. We also had to get different clothing as some clothing required to go with a different sets of shoes. e.g. the mens shoes had to go with either a pair of jeans or black trousers. The film would not have made sense if we put the men shoes with a skirt so we also had to think of the different types of clothing.We didn't use any props for the filming so this wasn't something we had to worry about. I think we worked well together in bringing in the amount of shoes and clothing we could however if I could do this project again I would have rather done it one another's home as then I would not have worried about forgetting something. I enjoyed using the different costumes and shoes and thought it was an enjoyable project.
Getting changed:
From the amount of clothing and shoes we had, we had a lot of clothing to get changed into which was not a problem. this is because we done our filming in the photography room of the building in our school where no-one can see through the window so we had no worry of keep going to the toilets going to get changed and coming back because that would have taken more time and would have wasted valuable filming that could have been done. It only took between 2-3 minutes to change into the costumes and shoes so this did not take up much time to film.
Finding the right people to work in the film and making sure they came to filming on time:
This was not a difficult position we were put in because there was two of us so we cooperated together and took in turns as we both had shoes that fitted us properly so we just took it in turns to perform with the shoes we brought in. However for one shoot we used Lauren a media studies student to because she had the right socks on for the day but she was availiable so it was fine and it did not take more than 3 shoots for her to get the right movements right. This was very simple and straightforward as we only relied on each other for nearly every shoot we were also always on time as we did the film during media lessons so we were partners in making this remake and were together so we had no worry of each other not being there. We both turned up to each lesson of filming and editing so we had no problem of making sure everything worked out.
Filmings on the right angles:
We filmed in the same angle and direction throughout the filming where the camera sat under a few books to give it a bit of height and for the certain angle we wanted. We were trying to achieve a similar look as the remake however we did have to do the filming in different places so the background and the closeness the camera is, is slightly different. however we tried our best to keep it the same. Making this angle was not difficult as we did not have to change into other filming angles we only had to record in this one angle. Footloose is quite a simple remake when it comes to the angles however it is the timing of the music and the editing that made it most difficult.
Importance of acting skills:
Acting skills was very important during this production as we could not muck around because it would have made the production look flat and not professional. We did not have to worry about facial expressions because it only focused on the feet. We had to make sure that we understood the dance technique was almost the same as the actual make. Timing was very crucial and this could only be done if the dancing routines were perfect so this meant no messing around. I think we personally pulled it off well as we did not muck around and kept ourself under control. We also made sure we thoroughly knew the dance routines for them to only be taken in a 1/2 shots.
Value of patience:
Patience during this remake was needed because if a shot needed taking more than twice or one of us could not understand how to do a certain dance routine we had to take time out to help one another. I think Debbie and I had a lot of patience during the filming and helped each other out all the way through the filming which I think was the most important part of filming. This is because without cooperation and communication and having arguments could have caused many issues and the filming could have been produced very unprofessional.
Editing:
When editing I had learned a lot of new skills. From transferring all clips to the project,to cutting and unlinking unwanted sounds. It was very difficult to put together however very rewarding as I think we had made a very good remake of the opening sequence.
For this task we had to do a remake of an opening sequence Remaking the opening of "Footloose" was an experience which I thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot from it. It was very time consuming however the finishing piece was really well made and was worth the time. My partner I worked with Debbie and I had a lot of things we had to take care of to make sure we got the filming as good as possible. We had to focus on Costumes, props, getting changed, finding the right people to work in the film and making sure they came to filming on time, make sure the filming was at right angles and it was all carried out professionally like it is our real piece. I had also learned how to cooperate with teamworkers which were debbie and one other Lauren as she appeared in one shot. This is each subject we focused on in more detail and what I learned from it all:
Filming
Costumes/Props:
Costumes was one of our most important aspects because the film uses over 24 pairs of shoes so we had to communicate with each other and bring as many shoes that would fit in with the filming progress. If forgetting one pair that we needed to use for filming would have jeopardize the whole filming as it would have taken a lot more time so we made sure we brought them all in for filming dates. We also had to get different clothing as some clothing required to go with a different sets of shoes. e.g. the mens shoes had to go with either a pair of jeans or black trousers. The film would not have made sense if we put the men shoes with a skirt so we also had to think of the different types of clothing.We didn't use any props for the filming so this wasn't something we had to worry about. I think we worked well together in bringing in the amount of shoes and clothing we could however if I could do this project again I would have rather done it one another's home as then I would not have worried about forgetting something. I enjoyed using the different costumes and shoes and thought it was an enjoyable project.
Getting changed:
From the amount of clothing and shoes we had, we had a lot of clothing to get changed into which was not a problem. this is because we done our filming in the photography room of the building in our school where no-one can see through the window so we had no worry of keep going to the toilets going to get changed and coming back because that would have taken more time and would have wasted valuable filming that could have been done. It only took between 2-3 minutes to change into the costumes and shoes so this did not take up much time to film.
Finding the right people to work in the film and making sure they came to filming on time:
This was not a difficult position we were put in because there was two of us so we cooperated together and took in turns as we both had shoes that fitted us properly so we just took it in turns to perform with the shoes we brought in. However for one shoot we used Lauren a media studies student to because she had the right socks on for the day but she was availiable so it was fine and it did not take more than 3 shoots for her to get the right movements right. This was very simple and straightforward as we only relied on each other for nearly every shoot we were also always on time as we did the film during media lessons so we were partners in making this remake and were together so we had no worry of each other not being there. We both turned up to each lesson of filming and editing so we had no problem of making sure everything worked out.
Filmings on the right angles:
We filmed in the same angle and direction throughout the filming where the camera sat under a few books to give it a bit of height and for the certain angle we wanted. We were trying to achieve a similar look as the remake however we did have to do the filming in different places so the background and the closeness the camera is, is slightly different. however we tried our best to keep it the same. Making this angle was not difficult as we did not have to change into other filming angles we only had to record in this one angle. Footloose is quite a simple remake when it comes to the angles however it is the timing of the music and the editing that made it most difficult.
Importance of acting skills:
Acting skills was very important during this production as we could not muck around because it would have made the production look flat and not professional. We did not have to worry about facial expressions because it only focused on the feet. We had to make sure that we understood the dance technique was almost the same as the actual make. Timing was very crucial and this could only be done if the dancing routines were perfect so this meant no messing around. I think we personally pulled it off well as we did not muck around and kept ourself under control. We also made sure we thoroughly knew the dance routines for them to only be taken in a 1/2 shots.
Value of patience:
Patience during this remake was needed because if a shot needed taking more than twice or one of us could not understand how to do a certain dance routine we had to take time out to help one another. I think Debbie and I had a lot of patience during the filming and helped each other out all the way through the filming which I think was the most important part of filming. This is because without cooperation and communication and having arguments could have caused many issues and the filming could have been produced very unprofessional.
Editing:
When editing I had learned a lot of new skills. From transferring all clips to the project,to cutting and unlinking unwanted sounds. It was very difficult to put together however very rewarding as I think we had made a very good remake of the opening sequence.
Lesson of 11/10/10
In this lesson Debbie and I focused on editing and putting together my opening scene of "footloose". We had finished filming the scenes however we had to import them onto the software of Premiere Pro. By doing this, we had to link the camera to the computer and capture the different scenes by pressing the recording button so it recorded the specific scene and we had to press stop for when each scene ended at the time we wanted it to. They then automatically went on the side of the premiere pro and we could drag them onto the part where we could edit and cut parts down for the only clips we needed. This was very simple as we knew where to cut the clips and whether it was in time with the music. We then had to add titles to the right clip and made sure that the effect used to fade out the titles on the clips were at the right time for the next clip to begin. The effect we used was additive dissolve. I enjoyed putting this clip together and think I have learned a lot with the different tools on Premiere Pro and how to use a camera and tripod properly. This has given me a good head start on my actual video piece that we start after the holidays.
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