Proud to present our finished two minute film opening THE MISSING ELEMENTS.
Many thanks to Lee Smith and Chris Harris for helping out with the acting!
Sunday, 20 March 2016
Friday, 18 March 2016
Preliminary task
For my preliminary task I had to film and edit a character opening a door into a room and walking across the room to engage in a few lines of dialogue with another character. I was in a group of four to do this and the clip only had to be about a minute long.
In the preliminary task I had to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
Match on action = Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.
Shot reserve shot = Shot reverse shot (or shot/counter shot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.
180 degree rule = In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.
As it was only our preliminary task we didn't spend ages casting we just picked students who were in our class at the time because our plot was a girls walking into the room to give her teacher the homework it looked unrealistic because the teacher was only a 17 year old boy. Likewise, we didn't bother creating a script or storyboard we just went with the flow when filming the footage looked really unrehearsed and unprofessional. As this was my first time using adobe premier pro so it took me a while to work out what I was doing and therefore the film as good as it could be. If I was to do this again I would spend more time coming up with a better story line.
In the preliminary task I had to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
Match on action = Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.
Shot reserve shot = Shot reverse shot (or shot/counter shot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.
180 degree rule = In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.
What technology did you use in the filming and editing of your preliminary task?
We used a camera on a tripod to film and edited our footage on Adobe Premier Pro
What have you learnt from the ideas process, casting, script writing, filming and editing of your preliminary task?
As it was only our preliminary task we didn't spend ages casting we just picked students who were in our class at the time because our plot was a girls walking into the room to give her teacher the homework it looked unrealistic because the teacher was only a 17 year old boy. Likewise, we didn't bother creating a script or storyboard we just went with the flow when filming the footage looked really unrehearsed and unprofessional. As this was my first time using adobe premier pro so it took me a while to work out what I was doing and therefore the film as good as it could be. If I was to do this again I would spend more time coming up with a better story line. Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Evaluation question four and five
We were unable to upload the video onto our blogs but the video is in Kates documents.
Sunday, 13 March 2016
Friday, 11 March 2016
Audience feedback: final film
I asked 10 young adults/ teenagers about what they thought of mine and Kate's two minute opening and I got a range of different answers. I showed a number of my friends my opening and then asked them what they thought. All of them said that they would want to go and see it at the cinema and they thought that it looked like a proper film that would be in the cinemas. They also said that there was suspense all throughout the two minutes and the cliff-hanger left the audience wanting to watch the rest of the film. One of my fiends asked about the scientist because he did look very suspicious having a dead body in his cupboard and setting up for an experiment. Some of my target audience didn't even ask and they said there are many different opportunities for the plot synopsis'. I also asked older people to look at my film and they thought that it looked very professional and thought that the editing was very good and they were impressed with he quality of work I created. they also said that they would go and see it at the cinema to find out what happens also because the plot was very intriguing
My target audience said that the only thing that would make it better is if there was more hints that the scientist was the evil mastermind behind it all. For example, if he looked at the camera and smiled like he had completed his experiment with he dead girl. They also said that the camera quality could have been better but we only had access to the school cameras not anything better than a small camera. But overall my target audience liked the opening a lot and said they can see the real cinema qualities in my film.
My target audience said that the only thing that would make it better is if there was more hints that the scientist was the evil mastermind behind it all. For example, if he looked at the camera and smiled like he had completed his experiment with he dead girl. They also said that the camera quality could have been better but we only had access to the school cameras not anything better than a small camera. But overall my target audience liked the opening a lot and said they can see the real cinema qualities in my film.
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