Shooting Schedule of Prelim
As part of our Prelim we have to produce a Shooting Schedule of when all our shots were got, this gives an idea of what we we were working with when we were filming. I decided to put the shots all in order as you would see on a storyboard and then how they go together into scenes, with this you can see how on different days we filmed different things but within the end result you wouldn't even know.
Evidence of Planning Prelim Task
Before we filmed the Prelim video we did a recce of possible locations for the filming, we thought as it is a story of two boys falling out, why not film it in a school environment? So we went around taking pictures of possible shots and where to film stuff.
Planning of Shots...
Our beginning shot of the storyboard was of someone walking down a corridor so we got a picture of what we thought the shot would look like.
Another shot we know we needed to get was of our character making his way to meeting his friend so this was a chance to get different angles, so we checked what it would look like to get a high angle of walking up the stairs and decided we would use that.
Then we would use some low angle shots to show the travel up the stairs, we also thought this would show the tension with just the sound of the steps going up the stairs.
The character would then walk to the room.
The character would go to open the door...
Then a close up of opening the door...
And a match on action of that happening, we were making sure to get/look at what we needed to be trying to do to hit the criteria of the Prelim.
Reaction of the second character and then they would meet within this shot as well.
The over the shoulder shot reverse shot concersation.
Then we looked at an ending and we thought as the character fall out one of them would walk out, and to show this lonelyness that the character would now have we walked him across an empty space.
Planning of Shots...
Our beginning shot of the storyboard was of someone walking down a corridor so we got a picture of what we thought the shot would look like.
Another shot we know we needed to get was of our character making his way to meeting his friend so this was a chance to get different angles, so we checked what it would look like to get a high angle of walking up the stairs and decided we would use that.
Then we would use some low angle shots to show the travel up the stairs, we also thought this would show the tension with just the sound of the steps going up the stairs.
The character would then walk to the room.
The character would go to open the door...
Then a close up of opening the door...
And a match on action of that happening, we were making sure to get/look at what we needed to be trying to do to hit the criteria of the Prelim.
Reaction of the second character and then they would meet within this shot as well.
The over the shoulder shot reverse shot concersation.
Then we looked at an ending and we thought as the character fall out one of them would walk out, and to show this lonelyness that the character would now have we walked him across an empty space.
Storyboard Preliminary Task
This our story board of our Prelim task idea. It is a RomCom / Drama about two boys are best friends who fall out of friendship over a girl, pretty cliche I know but we needed a simple story-line to run with easily and that everyone can get so we can then get the shots we need for our points.
Video Walk-through of Storyboard
Preliminary Task
This is our first self made up task, with some guidelines that I will list below. The Prelim task is a continuity task involving the filming and editing of a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.
Shots to include :::
- Match on Action
- shot/reverse shot
- 180 degree rule
- an establishing shot
- at least two close ups of the characters
- a tracking shot
- high angle shot
My Group
This is my group that I will be working on the Preliminary Task with. It consist of (right to left) Harry, Me & Oliver
The Storyboard and Group Juno Task
The use of a story board made filming much easier but one problem I encountered was forgetting to say what was actually happening in enough detail for every scene so most of the scene movement was directed from memory (from watching the intro to make the story board) rather than from the story board. This equaled in some of the shots only just being long enough or only looking kind of similar to the original or the shots not being long enough at all.
2) Was your storyboard accurate?
My storyboard was accurate to a certain degree meaning it had the look of the scene (Mise en scene - setting) in the drawing box and it said what type of shot and angle the frame was, the setting was obviously different but similarities could be drawn with certain parts from the scene like with the tree being a stopping point for the tracking shot in the first 10 seconds of the video ::::
As I said before a few shots were a little wrong like feet facing the wrong way in our low angle shot
and obviously the background could never be completely the same in any of our shot but it is was is in the mid ground i.e. the main character is always doing what would be seen in the real video. Some shots were not recorded for long enough, sometimes the actor walked too fast compared to the real Juno video, small things like this that could be helped by watching the video during filming which we were unable to do at the time.
3) What were your strengths and weaknesses in the group?
I feel like there were no real strengths or weaknesses in my group, we all played our parts and worked cohesively together.
- I worked the camera and the directing of the shots from the story board.
- Harry was my camera assistant and directing assistant, backing me up on the layout of shots and making sure I chose right for the scene movement and setting.
- Sophie was our actor playing the character of the girl, she worked well with the instructions that me and harry gave her.
Technical Skills Juno Task
- What technical skills either camera or premiere did you learn? How does it compare to the original?
My Camera work was a bit more shaky compared to the original this would be because the original Juno was most likely filmed using steady cam or tracks on the ground to roll the camera along to get a nice steady shot where as ours was shot just on a tripod relying on my steady hand which will never be as steady as a professional steady cam. I did learn that for low shots like filming the legs and then having to track them walking it was much easier to film if I held the tripod and camera upside down and used the reversible screen to see what I was filming, by doing this I could get a much lower angle.
I held the tripod similar to this(for perspective)When editing with premier I was unable to find any video effects that looked similar to the cartoon likeness that was in the Juno Film so this is one disadvantage that came with the editing. some shots I had to slow down to make them work with the timing of the walking of the original and the was very evident when watching the video, where as in the original they would not of slowed down any of the shots or if they did it is very hard to see. Some transition in between shot were hard to copy for my video but I got some of the simple ones like the wipe and all my shots are in time with the cuts, I made sure to use markers on the timeline and in the viewing window so I could cut them appropriately.
You can see my markers on my timeline that I used for reference.
Summary of Juno Task
Summary
What went well overall was that we managed to get all the necessary shots to make a video that was very similar to the JUNO Intro, we worked well as a team - everyone had their roles and stuck to them and we just flowed through the filming process, we finished filming within the hour of our lesson showing our efficiency in filming, had the necessary costume etc this made it possible to make the video happen to its full potential.
What did not go well was that I did not put enough detail on to my storyboard which hindered us in the future filming when we didn't have access to watching the Original Juno Video to copy the shots and I did not stick to the timings that I had made on my storyboard for the urgency that we needed to film I chucked out getting the right length of shots.
So now in future productions I will make sure to know my shots in and out, have the detail on the storyboard of shot length and the composition of the shots etc and finally to understand sometimes you have other days to film.
- Did you get all the footage you needed?
- What went well - What I learnt - What I will take with me to the next production
What went well overall was that we managed to get all the necessary shots to make a video that was very similar to the JUNO Intro, we worked well as a team - everyone had their roles and stuck to them and we just flowed through the filming process, we finished filming within the hour of our lesson showing our efficiency in filming, had the necessary costume etc this made it possible to make the video happen to its full potential.
What did not go well was that I did not put enough detail on to my storyboard which hindered us in the future filming when we didn't have access to watching the Original Juno Video to copy the shots and I did not stick to the timings that I had made on my storyboard for the urgency that we needed to film I chucked out getting the right length of shots.
So now in future productions I will make sure to know my shots in and out, have the detail on the storyboard of shot length and the composition of the shots etc and finally to understand sometimes you have other days to film.
Pete Fraser Film Openings Talk
Today we had a talk from a media examiner Pete Fraser on how to get the best grades possible on our film opening work and blogs in general.
Below is the PowerPoint that he used, this will be of great help when it comes to filming my title/opening sequence.
Film openings from PGCEmedia
A good website for research on title sequences is
http://www.artofthetitle.com/
A good website for research on title sequences is
http://www.artofthetitle.com/
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