In my preliminary production we worked in a group of three
people to make the production, this would be done by having two actors, and a
cameraman. Our production is entitled ‘the phone call’ a conversation between
two students about one struggling with homework and asking the other for help
with it.
In the production i have learned the difficulties of filming a
production as in order to get the perfect shot it may take several takes as
there may be different factors that affect the shooting for example, actors
laughing or doing anything that shouldn’t be in the shot like a sneeze for
example. I have also learned the difficulties of getting all of your shots in
sync and getting everything into the right place changing from a shot, it is
vital that you do not skip a split-second.
we found it difficult when attempting to try and find the
correct shot fr the scene as sometimes it didn’t run smoothly with the editing
and sometimes looked out of place. We found out the difficulties of editing and
how we had to try and fit everything in sync perfectly, this is because for
example in our match-on-action shot we had to make the timing perfect in order
for it to run smoothly, this takes time with the editing to get perfect and so
we now know that editing can be quite time consuming. We have also learnt that
during your filming you should use a tripod in order to keep the camera steady
so the shots aren’t shaky. This is because our camera was a camcorder and so
was difficult at times for us to keep out hands still for the shots. We also
learnt that we should keep away from areas where we can have a reflection in
our shots as in one of our shots we can see a reflection of the cameraman.
I
thought that the planning of our production went well as everybody in the group
knew what their roles were before we started filming and knew the scripts in
order to have them saying the right things during the filming also felt as
though the filming went smoothly so that we could capture all of the clips that
we needed efficiently. This was good because it then allowed us to cut the
clips well when editing as they were all separate and easy to tell when it has
cut to a different clip.
We found problems in
collecting all of our clips off the tape as it was done from an outside person
to convert it into a file for us to use. This can be prevented next time by
using one of the more advanced cameras so that it will save our clips onto a
memory card automatically. We also found problems after we had films where on a
couple of clips we found a reflection showing the cameraman, this can be
prevented next time by us looking back at the clips in detail and changing the
angle of the cameraman so that he is not in the reflection in the windows. In
the editing we found a problem where we struggled to save our progress so had
to stay on the same computer every time we tried to edit in order to continue
editing. This can be prevented by exporting every time we make significant
progress on our production.
I felt as though working
in a group was productive as it allowed for us to have many ideas to choose
from with everybody contributing to make it flow smoothly. I felt that by us
working in a group it allowed us to efficiently plan out our production to the
best of our abilities and also found that working in a group is much more
enjoyable as you are working with other people and communicating well with
them.
On the other hand i felt
that at times we could be found messing about a bit too much and not fully
concentrating on the job at hand and so found ourselves wasting some of the
time that we had allocated to us, this can be prevented by us all having a full
concentration and motivation to do what was required in this production.
I think I have learned
that we have to make sure our clips are absolutely perfect for us to use in our
main coursework. This way it will improve the production the most it can and
make it much easier for us to edit our clips. I have also learned that we
should be using one of the more advanced cameras in order to use more of the
features that they have available and so that the saving of the clips will be
easier.
Overall i felt that the
production went okay but could have had many improvements and so we will have
to learn from this in order to make it much better in our coursework. This can
be done by us making sure that we get all of our shots off the camera so that
we can use them for better use whilst editing I felt that i contributed well to
the production trying to work as an actor in our production and work with all
of the different shots that we needed to make.
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