Friday, 26 October 2012
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Preliminary Task Evaluation
All in all I think the preliminary task was a success.
There were many things that went well in the preliminary task, in fact pretty much all of the task went well. Personally I think that the acting was a very good part, as we had Matt in our group who has done GCSE Drama, and is currently doing A level Drama, along with outside of school Drama based activities, meaning Matt is well educated in that area, can offer his skills and advice to the other actors.
My part in the task which was filming was also a success it was the first kind of filming like this that I've done, and I think it was successful because we studied all the different camera shots in lesson, so I could apply those to the context of the scene. We also chose a setting which offered a variety of camera angles.
We did have some difficulties, such as various people in our group being absent, the room we chose to film in was occupied by a lesson or a meeting, and having to re-shoot various parts because we had cut it midway through a part, and continued the next day with everyone wearing completely different clothes, these obstructions meant that we had to use our free lessons, lunch and after school hours to ensure the clip was completed by the deadline, which we did manage, so eating into time outside lesson was worth it in the end.
In the last lesson, we watched each others finished preliminary tasks, and gave feedback on each video. To begin with it was pointed out that there were slight timing problems at the beginning of our clip, where Matt walks through the door at the end of the corridor, and Nadib exists the classroom, when you look back on the clip, when the two meet in the middle of the corridor, the characters haven't moved as much as they would have been expected to in the time that had elapsed.
On the positive side, our peers fed back to us that our shot reverse shot was successful overall, and most effective in the corridor when Matt and Nadib meet and confront each other, we took a shot from over each of their shoulders, and despite there not being any dialogue, you get to see their facial expressions as the shots that we took were both close ups.
Another positive aspect that was given as feedback was how effective the low angle shots we took towards the end of the scene, where Matt is talking to Mo and Nadib, which makes him look the more important and powerful of the characters from the audience's prospective. Unfortunately, it was just before this shot was taken that we had our last negative bit of feedback was given, despite trying to be very careful not to, we some how managed to break the 180 degree rule, this wasn't horrifically noticeable, but looking back on the clip, you could tell something wasn't quite right, in the future this is something we will try even harder not to do again!
As I said at the beginning, all in all I think the task was success, there are things such as the time lapsing and characters not moving that we will take on board and learn from the mistake to ensure we don't make it again in the future. Saying that we will also take on board the positive feedback and apply those aspects to future work to create the same good effect it had on this task.
There were many things that went well in the preliminary task, in fact pretty much all of the task went well. Personally I think that the acting was a very good part, as we had Matt in our group who has done GCSE Drama, and is currently doing A level Drama, along with outside of school Drama based activities, meaning Matt is well educated in that area, can offer his skills and advice to the other actors.
My part in the task which was filming was also a success it was the first kind of filming like this that I've done, and I think it was successful because we studied all the different camera shots in lesson, so I could apply those to the context of the scene. We also chose a setting which offered a variety of camera angles.
We did have some difficulties, such as various people in our group being absent, the room we chose to film in was occupied by a lesson or a meeting, and having to re-shoot various parts because we had cut it midway through a part, and continued the next day with everyone wearing completely different clothes, these obstructions meant that we had to use our free lessons, lunch and after school hours to ensure the clip was completed by the deadline, which we did manage, so eating into time outside lesson was worth it in the end.
In the last lesson, we watched each others finished preliminary tasks, and gave feedback on each video. To begin with it was pointed out that there were slight timing problems at the beginning of our clip, where Matt walks through the door at the end of the corridor, and Nadib exists the classroom, when you look back on the clip, when the two meet in the middle of the corridor, the characters haven't moved as much as they would have been expected to in the time that had elapsed.
On the positive side, our peers fed back to us that our shot reverse shot was successful overall, and most effective in the corridor when Matt and Nadib meet and confront each other, we took a shot from over each of their shoulders, and despite there not being any dialogue, you get to see their facial expressions as the shots that we took were both close ups.
Another positive aspect that was given as feedback was how effective the low angle shots we took towards the end of the scene, where Matt is talking to Mo and Nadib, which makes him look the more important and powerful of the characters from the audience's prospective. Unfortunately, it was just before this shot was taken that we had our last negative bit of feedback was given, despite trying to be very careful not to, we some how managed to break the 180 degree rule, this wasn't horrifically noticeable, but looking back on the clip, you could tell something wasn't quite right, in the future this is something we will try even harder not to do again!
As I said at the beginning, all in all I think the task was success, there are things such as the time lapsing and characters not moving that we will take on board and learn from the mistake to ensure we don't make it again in the future. Saying that we will also take on board the positive feedback and apply those aspects to future work to create the same good effect it had on this task.
Ideas For Opening 2 Minutes
We are already planning on working in the same group as we did for the preliminary task, everyone except for Matt who has opted out to work on his own, this doesn't go to say we won't appear as actors in his opening 2 minutes.
The group will be myself, Mo, Aran, and Nadib, we've already been talking about a few ideas, from the freezeframe that is also on this blog, we've been thinking about a similar sceenario, where somebody gets mugged, so the genre of our opening 2 minutes would be Action or Horror, depending on weather we make the scene a spooky.
We've also already talked about a setting, at the top of my road there is a quiet ally way which would be a good place to film the scene, as it's a stereotypical setting for a mugging to take place, and it is quiet so it would be easy to film without any interuptions from members of the public.
The set up for our preliminary task with me filming, Mo, Nadib, and Aran acting worked well, so we will probably use this set up again.
The group will be myself, Mo, Aran, and Nadib, we've already been talking about a few ideas, from the freezeframe that is also on this blog, we've been thinking about a similar sceenario, where somebody gets mugged, so the genre of our opening 2 minutes would be Action or Horror, depending on weather we make the scene a spooky.
We've also already talked about a setting, at the top of my road there is a quiet ally way which would be a good place to film the scene, as it's a stereotypical setting for a mugging to take place, and it is quiet so it would be easy to film without any interuptions from members of the public.
The set up for our preliminary task with me filming, Mo, Nadib, and Aran acting worked well, so we will probably use this set up again.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Research and planning
There is some evidence of research and planning. Make sure your analysis of openings of films is detailed - see below for what to include. Remove the video that shows the hockey(?) game - it isn't relevant to the project. - done.
Make sure you upload your preliminary task.- done.
You MUST have at least 8-10 posts on here by next Tuesday, including:
- Analysis of at least 4 different genre openings (analyse how mise-en-scene, sound, plot convey genre to audience)
- Preliminary task diary - done.
- Preliminary task evaluation - done.
- own ideas mind map - what genre? plot? etc - done.
- Analysis of at least 2 openings of films from your chosen genre
Make sure you upload your preliminary task.- done.
You MUST have at least 8-10 posts on here by next Tuesday, including:
- Analysis of at least 4 different genre openings (analyse how mise-en-scene, sound, plot convey genre to audience)
- Preliminary task diary - done.
- Preliminary task evaluation - done.
- own ideas mind map - what genre? plot? etc - done.
- Analysis of at least 2 openings of films from your chosen genre
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Preliminalary Task Diary
Our finished Preliminary Task
3/10/12
For out Preliminary task, we had to film a scene that involved someone walking towards a door, opening it, and walking through to have a short conversation with somebody.
We were struggling to put together a script for the conversation, so we came up with Nadib exiting the room where Matt's Friends are, the storyline is that Matt and Nadib don't get on, so when Matt meets Nadib outside the room when heading to meet his Friends, he can enter the room and confront his Friends about why they have been hanging around with Nadib.
Once we had this planned, we began to think about which camera shots we were going to use, we chose to use over shoulder shots when filming Matt and Nadib squaring up to each other, an extreme close up/match on action of the door handle when Matt puts his hand on it.
All in all the filming was easy to get through, we found a good location in the School building, which gave us good options for camera shots by standing on tables to get good high angle shots of Matt walking through the door.
We still have one last section to film, which is Matt walking through the door and having the conversation with Mo and Aran, this potentially could be the more difficult part as we don't know how well Mo and Aran are on camera, and it needs more planning i.e camera shots, and further conversation.
4/10/12
We stayed behind after school last night and filmed part of the conversation between Matt, Mo and Aran, we were forced to stay behind after school because we used another member of staff's classroom to film our scene, and this classroom isn't always free. This part of our filming included a low angle shot of Matt, a Medium shot of Mo, and a two shot of Mo and Aran when they're talking to Matt.
We are also planning to use an unspecified event, Aran Say's to Matt "I don't know why you've got a problem with him" Matt replies "you know what he did", so the audience establish something has gone on between the two, they just don't know, or ever find out what it was.
As we have only filmed part of the conversation a new struggle has come up, as we need to finish our task by Tuesday next week, Mo is absent for a lesson, and the classroom we have been using is occupied, we don't know whether Mo is off sick or just not attending the lesson, so we have the option of waiting to see if Mo is in and working after school again, or re-filming the entire conversation scene again, but without Mo.
9/10/12
We have managed to finish our preliminary task, but cut it fine as we finished yesterday, and it's due in today. We met yesterday lunchtime in the classroom that we have been using for filming, which luckily was free, and we finished filming the final part of the conversation between Matt, Mo, and Aran.
This scene was quite difficult to film, because we had some good idea's for a variety of camera shots, but were not keen on using the shot which goes behind the back of a character showing that it has crossed the 180 degree line, so we decided not to use them, but overall, we are quite pleased with the way that the scene turned out.
Another issue that we had with filming this scene which is kind of why we finished it last minute, is with all 4 of us have completely different timetables, we struggled to find a slot where we were all free, and then when we did find a slot, we were all a bit unreliable in turning up to the time slot we had arranged, so we then had to re-arrange a new time to meet and continue filming.
The third issue in filming this final part of the task is there were a few parts that we had to shoot again, because we got midway through filming the conversation, then when we went to start re-filming, we realised that Mo and Aran were wearing different clothes to the previous lesson, whereas Matt had brought his with him to change into when filming continued, so we had to re-shoot the beginning of the conversation.
All in all, I think the filming has been a success, it's our first filming task in our Media Studies, and we were working with people who we haven't worked with before, so at the beginning we could almost guarantee it wouldn't all go to plan and run smoothly.
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