Preliminary Video

Preliminary Evaluation

My evaluation of my preliminary task is that overall the task was a success as we achieved all of the requirements in a some what short amount of time and we produced work that I am proud of and that we produced it at a high enough standard to be happy with. Yet we did have a few issues when it came to editing due to sound volume and not being able to go back and shoot the same scene. But we did figure out how to utilise volume within the software which in turn became useful knowledge for future projects if a similar problems occurs. I think there are many strengths and weeknesses within our film. Strengths are the editing and camera angles. I think the camera angles were cleverly chosen to suit the scene as we took time to think about the most appropriate angles for each scene for example the end scene has a low angle to show the characters power. The editing was quite well done as the non-diegetic music matched the film and sound effects were cleverly placed at the right places to ensure the most realism. A weakness was some parts of filming and not watching over clips after    recording them as that would have been a simple solution to the volume problem. But we have learnt from that mistake which may become useful to us in future projects. But the issue was major and didn't severely affect the whole film. All in all the project was a success and it was very good practice for the projects in the future as I have learnt valuable lessons in editing and camera work.

Preliminary Editing

For the editing aspect of the work we used a piece of software called Adobe Premier as it is straight forward for the editing tools we needed for the film. This software allowed us to complete all parts of the task such as the action match as we cut down the footage and appropriately placed them into the correct slots. During filming a piece of dialogue was recorded to quietly which allowed to us to gain more knowledge of volume and the ability to raise volume when certain clips are to quiet for the audience to hear. Getting used to this software is definitely good practice for future projects as I have come to terms with the basics of the software and think I have learnt a lot and gained beneficial experience from this task.

Preliminary Filming

For the filming aspect of the work we used camera in which I had no experience with and due to my role in the film I thought I would not get a chance to use the camera, but due to some scenes not including me I got a chance to gain some experience and knowledge by using the camera even though briefly it was very beneficial and I would feel a lot more comfortable using a camera now after experiencing the basics and could definitely manage my time more easily as I don't need camera experience. I filmed the end scene which only includes one character. We used our time productively as we only had a very short time frame to record the whole film and we recorded scenes several times to minimalise the amount of errors, but we only recorded one mistake when the characters dialogue was to quiet for the audience to hear.

Thriller - Planning

Group: Chris & Kai.

Ideas:

1. A man walking slowly down a long path in dark clothes holding something mysterious.
2. A dead body is found in a field with a cryptic note lying on top of him.

 Final idea: A dead body is found by a man. The body is lying in a field with a uninterruptible note on top of him.

Title: The Enigma

Characters: 
The dead man
The discoverer

Note:
My fun and games have just begun,
The man before you never saw the sun,
In the end he was just another one,
I wonder who will read your message when you're gone.

Plan:
A man is on a walk when he spots a man lying on the floor. He carefully, slowly walks towards the man until he's close enough to realise he's dead. There is a note gripped in the hand of the dead man. The discoverer picks up the note and reads it in his head, and once he finishes the last line the camera catches the killer behind the discoverer.

Preliminary Planning

Preliminary Task:
The task is to create a short film aprroximatwely 30 seconds long that includes atleast two characters, dialgou between the characters and also an action match. This will be done in groups of 3-4.

Protagonist: David Thomas
Antagonist: Chris King
Henchman: Stephanie Hanna
Cameraman: Irenam Mileva

Dialogue:
David: Give me my cat back!
Chris: You'll never get it!
David: I'll kill you!
Chris: I don't believe you
*David shoots Stephanie*
*Chris throws cat*
*David falls back and shoots Chris*   

Storyboard:

  











The story board showcases our initial ideas on what to base our short film on. Having the story board helped us to keep on track with all the shots and certain dialogue as we could base the final filming on the story board. The frames also showed the four aspects of media. For example it showed an example of the shot reverse shot with the frame being split into two equal sides to ensure a straight forward, understandable plan for the film.