Considering this was our first time on a handheld camera a found that we set upon this task with a professional behaviour meaning that we used all the appropriate equipment needed to shoot a semi-decent film. We were more or less waiting for a week to film our piece as of the schools shortage of cameras therefore on the day the camera was available we jumped at the chance! immediately filming the whole piece in a lunch hour because of the demand for the cameras, we also did this to ensure that the continuity of the piece was right meaning that noone had changed clothes half way through the piece or grown hair.
Overall i found that our piece was more difficult than expected because the quality of image and sound was not as good as we had originally imagined, it was also a shame that the origianl idea of the lighting coming from a single lamp in the criminals face was not available as the plugs in the setting did not work therefore we had to settle for general lighting from a regular source (overhead lights) What did suprise me was how little takes we had to do, i expected that filming would take a few hours because of getting the scene right however both actors pulled it together and did brilliantly.
Another point in which i thought we did well in was the use of camera angles we used shots like: high angle shot, low angle shot, mid shot, close up and 2 shot which allows the audience to see different dimensions of the piece. This was mostly done as an experimental point in order to see what could and could not be done for the real assessment and it helped give us a pretty clear idea of waht angles we can and cant do. The piece was also helped by the use of our two amazing actors, we already knew they had acting skills due to there parts in some of the school productions therefore we knew they could be trusted.
New Yorkk!
On the 3 february 2010 Amvc year 12s took the trip of a lifetime to new york in which dramatically changed our outlook on the media world. In this trip we attended a Filming master class in one of new yorks best teaching studios where we learnt all the basic techniques of making a short film. The 4 hour film class consisted of: Acting, filming, editing and lighting. This allowed us to see the different styles in which a film is made as well as the different techniques used throughout. For the lighting section they taught us how even a simple object such as a sheet of polistyrene can be used to influence the4 lighting of the piece. For the class I was on the acting side which was strange as I was used to being on the other side of the camera however doing this allowed me to see the actors point of view and see how the director takes control and dictates the scene.
We also went on the NBC news studio tour in which consisted of viewing all the different studios in the building these were shows such as: Saturday night live, David letterman show and the Dr Oz show. Whilst we were looking at the saturday night live studio we were lucky enough to see Ashto kutcher and 'Them crooked vultures' which was very exciting.
Overall i found that our piece was more difficult than expected because the quality of image and sound was not as good as we had originally imagined, it was also a shame that the origianl idea of the lighting coming from a single lamp in the criminals face was not available as the plugs in the setting did not work therefore we had to settle for general lighting from a regular source (overhead lights) What did suprise me was how little takes we had to do, i expected that filming would take a few hours because of getting the scene right however both actors pulled it together and did brilliantly.
Another point in which i thought we did well in was the use of camera angles we used shots like: high angle shot, low angle shot, mid shot, close up and 2 shot which allows the audience to see different dimensions of the piece. This was mostly done as an experimental point in order to see what could and could not be done for the real assessment and it helped give us a pretty clear idea of waht angles we can and cant do. The piece was also helped by the use of our two amazing actors, we already knew they had acting skills due to there parts in some of the school productions therefore we knew they could be trusted.
New Yorkk!
On the 3 february 2010 Amvc year 12s took the trip of a lifetime to new york in which dramatically changed our outlook on the media world. In this trip we attended a Filming master class in one of new yorks best teaching studios where we learnt all the basic techniques of making a short film. The 4 hour film class consisted of: Acting, filming, editing and lighting. This allowed us to see the different styles in which a film is made as well as the different techniques used throughout. For the lighting section they taught us how even a simple object such as a sheet of polistyrene can be used to influence the4 lighting of the piece. For the class I was on the acting side which was strange as I was used to being on the other side of the camera however doing this allowed me to see the actors point of view and see how the director takes control and dictates the scene.
We also went on the NBC news studio tour in which consisted of viewing all the different studios in the building these were shows such as: Saturday night live, David letterman show and the Dr Oz show. Whilst we were looking at the saturday night live studio we were lucky enough to see Ashto kutcher and 'Them crooked vultures' which was very exciting.
