Prelim Post Production Blog!!!!!!

Today we started editing a preliminary production. We began by selecting the appropriate shots from our various takes of each angle, and placing them what is known as a 'Log Bin'. We view each footage becuase there could be errors made either by the camera man, or the actors in which the shots might confuse the audience. To get a Log Bin you go to FILE---->NEW----->BIN. We then renamed the bin preliminary. Once we had selected all your favourite shots, we then had to drag the cilps on to the line in order of the storyboard. This is because we wanted the story to make sense and have some sense of continuity, this process is called sequential editing. We then trimmed down each individual shot, so that they could interlink each other with relevance and to not look disorganized. We needed to consider who we wanted the audience to favor, in terms of actors, this would then be determined by how much screen time we allow them. I believe that our actors recieved fairly balanced screen time, due to the fact we gave JJ the establishing shot and Luke the close up, however if i were to pick the actor the audience would be in favor of it would be Luke. This conclusion i make was not due to how much screen time the actors were given, but simply due to their performance. JJ didnt deliver enough facial expressions for audience to formulate an opinion about him, Luke did and a level of sympathey was summoned up from the viewers.

Prelim Evaluation

Our filming took place in the studio. This enabled us to play with the different levels of lighting. The only filming we did outside the studio was a shot of one of our actors entering the door of the main school building, in which we would edit to make out it was the door of the studio. In filming the opening of the door sequence we used the actors jacket, which he was filmed in during the shoot in the studio, and made Oscar (Camera man) wear it whilst filming himself walk to the door so when his hand came out to turn the door handle, the audience would notice the sleeve of the jacket and identify it as the actor. This is known as a point of view shot.

My role in the shooting of the scene, was to be the director. I dished some instructions for the actors in scene to follow, set markers for where they should stand, working close with the camera man. I aslo had to percific directing words such as "Standby", which would get the response of "Standing by", "Roll it", which would get the response "Rolling", and finally "Action". As the director it was important to make sure that before i say my last line, "Cut", that i should leave a long pause for editing purpose later. This I found slightly hard in our first few takes.

In terms of lighting we played with the exposure on the camera, and white balancing the camera was important. By white balancing we held a piece of white paper in front of the camera where the actor whould eventually stand, we did this inside the studion which we found fairly easy, and outside which was slightly more harder due to the sun at the time. Whilst filming it was important that the camera mans shadow wasnt actually in the shot. This proved difficult when the camera had to be at an angle in front of the light we were using.

In terms of filming i think the four of were quite successful. Being that our actors selected were slightily taller then usual, it was important that whilst doing an over the shoulder shot we adjusted our tripod to level with their shoulders. A few mistakes were made in getting the actor who was walking in to stop in right postion we needed him in the frame. Mistakes were that we were only getting half of the actors face, untill we came to the conclusion to put a marker down were he's suppose to stand. We manged to get a colse up of one of our actor's, Luke, face. We felt this was appropiate to show levels of tension and frustration in the scene, this proved effective. The filming and shots were suppose to be based on a storyboard we were given at the begining of the shoot. The story board was based on wide shots, over the shoulders and close ups. We followed a strict pattern of filming the whole scene in one camera angle, and then "Cutting" and filming the whole scene again in another camera angle. This was a long tiersome pattern, but whould prove to be a successful result in terms of editing our material. We conformed to 180 degree rule, because we felt if broken the audience would get confused.