Continuity Task

We have been given a small task to help us prepare for our final piece. We have to make a 60 second clip and it can be about anything. This is to help us know what we need to do more research/work on to help us come out with the best intro we can produce. We have to include the following:

·         Do not break the 180 degree rule

·         Include Shot-reverse-shot

·         Include a variety of appropriate camera angels

·         Edit so that continuity is apparent and meaning is clear

·         Include more than one location

·         Interaction between characters

·         Include some non-diegetic sound

StoryBoarding Talk

In this lesson a girl called Sophie came into our lesson to help us with our understanding of story boarding and animatic as that is her profession. Sophie gave us 3 top tips to use when storyboarding, they are:

1)      Bullet point your story board so you have an idea of what to draw.

2)      When drawing your story board don’t worry about it being in order.  You will      find you will change it around. You can put it in order at the end.

3)      Remember the rule of thirds.

Sophie helped me a lot this lesson and and has helped me have more of an understanding of the importance of story boarding and i now know the rule of thirds.

Rule of thirds: a grid split into three equal sections. If you want the character to be notices then you make sure they are in the centre. If they aren’t as important then you marginalize them

Animatic: animated storyboard timed.

_{­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­}above is the example of an animatic compared to the final piece.

Location - Connor Barbors Blog

This Blog is great! As a group we get a idea of how certain clips are going to look and it starts to make everything look real.  As a group we liked how the Females house was bigger as it symbolised her as being dominated and wealthy which links in to her being the red herring as she’s the attacker. The location of both houses are brilliant for us as they are so close to school and one of which is Hannah's which makes it even better. Easy to get to and from. Overall this blog is really good as it allows the group to see what we have to work with and how we can present certain things.

StoryBoarding

To help us with Our Storyboarding we watched a 15 minute clip of the importance of a Story Board. From this I found out that the story board helps saves money as it gives the director direction of what they want to achieve and helps prevent mistakes.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwqL5_825rI

Above is the link to the video we watched.

We then were given the task of making our own storyboard for the chase in a film called 'Terror in the Night'. I have never done this before and my pair wasn't in so i was all alone.I learnt that we had to use mention the camera angle, movement, position, how long the shot lasts and the sound, non-diegetic and diegetic. also include dialogue if there was any. 

My first attempt at Editing

In our lesson this week we had to edit a piece of work which was a final piece a few years ago. Our task was to make the clip identical to the old one using our editing skills. I was put with Connor who done creative media for GSCE so already knew how to edit films. As I have never done anything like this before Connor showed me how to do it once and then guided me through it until I got the hang of it.  Connor then left the rest to me as he wanted me to gain a good understanding to help with our own work.

Strengths: I found that editing itself was pretty easy once I understood what to do and our piece was smooth with no jumps. Adding the titles were very easy however we didn’t have enough time to finish it but if we would have had longer it would have looked great.

Weaknesses: the start of the editing went a bit wrong and for some reason cut out the first bit and I didnt know how to change it back. Also the editing of the clip was a few seconds over and not in time to the original.

Overall though I found that for my first time editing I done a good job thanks to the help of Connor. I have gained new skills that I will be able to use when editing my own intro and I will have more of an understanding of what Connor means when we disgust how we are editing and why we are doing in it in that certain way.

Evaluation of Connor Barbors Actors blogs

From the print screens you can see what type of Male actors we are looking for. I think this is a very good blog as the whole group can see he views on the two actors we have to choose from. This bit of research is great as we can compared there acting back grounds and have a group discussion on who we think as a group would be the best person for the male role.

Once again the blog on the female actors is so much help. Connor has mentioned that we want an actress who looks innocent as we want the female to be the attacker and the male to be the victim. Just the same as the Male actors we will have to discuss who we think will play the best part and pick as a group who will suit the female role the best.

Evaluation of Harriet Newmans Film Noir research

 Harriet’s work:

This is very good, easy to understand work for my group. Harriet did a good job of making it simple yet has enough information to help us when making our intro as we will know some of the key thing to add. Good work!