Friday 1 April 2011
Evaluation question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression to the final product?
Looking back at our journey from pre-limb to final product, it is clear to see that we have learnt a lot both in the technical and planning stages of our film making.
We learnt a lot about time management, and managing people, locations and equipment. We had to make sure that people were available, in the right place at the right time, as opposed to in school where everything was readily available and the actors we used were people in our class. For our final product, we had to clear with the owners of our location that it was okay to film there, at the right times. We wanted to film at night in a car, so organising someone to drive the taxi was also something new which ad to be done. In school, for the prelimb, the location we used was an empty room that we knew it was possible to film in, but this was not necessarily the case for our final product, so our need to organise location improved significantly. The benefit and importance of planning became clear at the point of filming, where the use of a story board helped us significantly. Whilst filming our pre-limb, the story board was something that was used. We learnt that it was not at all easy to organise actors because of their tight schedules. A good plan means that we can get as much filming done in as little time/takes as possible, because there is less need to retake shots.
The planning stages of storyboarding and shot listing were far more complicated and detailed simply because of the length of our film; a longer film means a longer storyboard, more shots to draw. This was hard to keep accurate because we didn’t know to what extent our film day would pose problems.
During the production, we learnt a lot about the technical side of things. We learnt how to do more diverse camera shots using the tripod, and to be more creative with the lighting and colours. We learnt about the brightness of lights depending on how close up the light is, and how the shadows can create brilliant looking effects and creates different moods. We learnt how to use new technologies such as the microphones, which we hadn’t used for the pre-limb but that we used in our production.
For our pre-limbs, we used final cut pro to the extent that we needed to cut bits of our film, and we could cut both sound and film at the same time. With our final product, it was a whole new kettle of fish, transforming a selection of shots that are roughly cut together to a 2 minute film opening for exam standard. We had to learn how to cut sound and image separately, then we learnt how to use and add effects, how to fade sound and image, how to add on titles or text, and how different lengths of shots, focussing on one thing for half a second longer could emphasise a different point entirely.
JT
Looking back at our journey from pre-limb to final product, it is clear to see that we have learnt a lot both in the technical and planning stages of our film making.
We learnt a lot about time management, and managing people, locations and equipment. We had to make sure that people were available, in the right place at the right time, as opposed to in school where everything was readily available and the actors we used were people in our class. For our final product, we had to clear with the owners of our location that it was okay to film there, at the right times. We wanted to film at night in a car, so organising someone to drive the taxi was also something new which ad to be done. In school, for the prelimb, the location we used was an empty room that we knew it was possible to film in, but this was not necessarily the case for our final product, so our need to organise location improved significantly. The benefit and importance of planning became clear at the point of filming, where the use of a story board helped us significantly. Whilst filming our pre-limb, the story board was something that was used. We learnt that it was not at all easy to organise actors because of their tight schedules. A good plan means that we can get as much filming done in as little time/takes as possible, because there is less need to retake shots.
The planning stages of storyboarding and shot listing were far more complicated and detailed simply because of the length of our film; a longer film means a longer storyboard, more shots to draw. This was hard to keep accurate because we didn’t know to what extent our film day would pose problems.
During the production, we learnt a lot about the technical side of things. We learnt how to do more diverse camera shots using the tripod, and to be more creative with the lighting and colours. We learnt about the brightness of lights depending on how close up the light is, and how the shadows can create brilliant looking effects and creates different moods. We learnt how to use new technologies such as the microphones, which we hadn’t used for the pre-limb but that we used in our production.
For our pre-limbs, we used final cut pro to the extent that we needed to cut bits of our film, and we could cut both sound and film at the same time. With our final product, it was a whole new kettle of fish, transforming a selection of shots that are roughly cut together to a 2 minute film opening for exam standard. We had to learn how to cut sound and image separately, then we learnt how to use and add effects, how to fade sound and image, how to add on titles or text, and how different lengths of shots, focussing on one thing for half a second longer could emphasise a different point entirely.
JT
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