Tuesday 20 October 2009

peliminary Task

In our peliminary task we was asked to film a person opening the door, walking across the room and sitting down opposite the other character. In my group we filmed someone walking through the door and standing facing the opposite character, they exchanged several words and one of the characters slapped the other and it ended there.
what went well was that we filmed the person coming throught he door, we also got a good shot of the 180 degree rule when the characters were standing talking to eachother and the slap shot.
what didnt go so well was some shots took ages to film and went wrong which caused us to do alot of editing, we took quite long on many of the facial expressing shots and the acting was quite poor which made us take really long.
When doing this peliminary task i personaly was trained to use a camera and learn't how to do most of the camera shots such as the 180 degree rule especially and how not to break this rule, as a whole we learn't how to use a camera better than how we knew it and the things you can do with the camera.
We learn't how to edit our peliminary in final cut express the editing programme which made it easier for us because we got to choose bits we wanted in the scene, so if the scene was like 5mins long we got to cut and selcet the part we wanted which could be like 3secounds which was interesting we just use the In and out button to select what bit we wanted, this was a good advantage for us because we learn't things that i didnt know before and how editing can really change a film and make it better than it is.

Monday 19 October 2009

Brief

We were asked to do a preliminary task which bascially was to film a person opening the door, going across the room and sitting down on a chair opposite another character exchanging a few lines, we had to include like the 180 degree rule and reverse shots.


In our media class we've been asked to make a fiction film of our choice which should be 2minutes minium and 4minutes maximum,It can be any genre of our choice, we can only have four people in our group, but we can still use other people as characters in our film. The film has to have an opening title to introduce our film, we have to include the sort of camera shots in our film so that it shows we've understood how to use a camera properly for example things like 180 degree rule, cutaways, close-up's, medium shots and etc. we have to do original scrips and storyboards. In our group we decided that our film genre is going to be based on Drama/romance, our current title is 'Love is Hate' and our storyline is about a young girl of 16years old who comes from a strict background lives with her single mother ,her father comes and goes out of there life, she's just began college with her secoundary school love, and on her 17th birthday she finds out she's 6weeks pregnan,t from this point on she's confused and scared as she knows her mum will be furious with her, but that isn't the only thing she should be worried about as her so called high school love turns a blind eye on her and ditches her when he finds out she's pregnant. our film is going to have a open narrative so that it leaves our audience eager to know more. My concerns for our film is if our open narrative will work, if it would make our story better or if we should just give it a proper ending. Another one of my concerns are if the people in my group will be reliable and if there attitudes will change to do certain things which will lead us to get more actors instead of using people in our group.
Also that everyone in the group should be able to understand how to use the camera properly so that everyone can have a chance on filming and not only one person.

Intro

My name Laura-Jayne ulume i am 16 years old turning 17 on june 16th , i'm in my first year of of 6form, i attend Harringey sixth form in white hart lane, i'm currently studing Alevels in As.English Lit/lang combined As.Media productions and As.Textiles.
As you can see in my subjects i am a very fun bubbly talkative person, I chose textiles because im really into fashion, i LOVE shopping and making my own sort of style, I chose media because I wanted to learn more about films and how it happens. in future i want to be a Model or a Gournelist, my back up career is a midwife/nurse.