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Evaluation
The three
main things I have learnt from this experience are that a schedule is needed
for everything and that we have to stick to the schedule otherwise the film is
very un-organised and everything will not flow properly during the making of
the film. I also learnt that having reserve or back up actors is key, if one
actor pulls out at the last minute or we cannot find them we have to be
prepared to have someone else step in if needed. On one of the last things and
the most important thing that I learnt is that team work is the most important
thing, without your team you cannot film and work the sound and make sure the
film is set up properly and the actors and taking their role seriously, the
team makes sure that everything is okay and you cannot do everything by
yourself.
Our group
handled problem solving very well, one of the problems we faced was that our
actor pulled out at the last minute so we had to use Micah to film, although
this was difficult me and Aoife had to direct and product and work the camera
and the sound, we all worked together to make sure that our film was successful
and that it worked and flowed well, also that all the shots were filmed
properly.
Our shooting
schedule was detailed but not realistic because we had to change our location
at the last minute, never the less this still allowed us to achieve a good quality
throughout filming, and all the recording in our film were competed in one day
without any problems.
The
storyboard had 17 shots altogether, covering around 4 minutes of our film, altogether
the storyboard gave a good idea of what shots needed to be involved and the
angles, also the different locations were clear and made it easier to plan the filming
making it clear how the film was going to be laid out. Altogether our film was
around 3 minutes 20 seconds following the storyboard however we decided when we
practiced our film that some shots didn’t need to be separated and some shots
worked better as one whole instead of individual shots.
Our shot
list was organised very well and made It a lot easier for the film to be
filmed, it saved a lot of time and it made the whole production more organised
because everyone knew what they were doing and in the shot and how the shot was
going to be filmed e.g. close ups and panning shots, also practising this made
it very easy to film because everyone knew how they had to film or act in the
shot everyone knew where they needed to be at certain times and how it was
going to filmed.
In the recce
our locations were chosen and reviewed very well, the recce made it very clear
the pros and cons of the location also visiting the location gave the producer
and director a very clear understanding of what parts of the rooms they were
going to use, for example when reviewing the counselling room the director decided
that they wanted to use the side of the room that had posters about mental
awareness instead of using a pain
background, as this would help foreshadow the characters fait more and help the
viewers to understand what the character was going through. Through the recce
It was very clear that the lighting was better at certain points in the room
also it gave us an idea of background noise, because the counselling room was a
small enclosed room there was little background noise but for the toilets it
was larger so it may have Eco’s at certain parts, therefore we had to be
careful of it at certain points whilst filming, also we evaluated the parts in
the toilets where it would be best to film with little or no background noise.
We also had to ask permission to use the counselling room this is detailed in
the recce and everyone was aware that we had permission.
We only had
one main character in our film, we felt that this would help to grip the viewers’
attention, we felt that our actor was perfect for the role as she was good at
acting and could portray the actor well, we rehearsed the film before filming
to make sure that the actor was confident with the role given, micah enjoyed
this role so this made the film run smoothly, she was also organised bringing
in the right make up that she had to use and the right clothing to fit the
character well.
Everyone in
our crew knew the roles they had to cover in the film and everyone was very
confident and content with their roles. All the equipment was checked charged
and working properly we did a practice shot to make sure that everything was
filmed promptly and the lighting was right for the film. The call sheet was
effective and everyone turned up on time
Aoife evaluation
From doing this film I’ve learned several things to help me
understand how to create a short film and the several things involved in
creating one and more in the future, a few things I feel were key was
Scheduling this is an important aspect in the pre-production of the filming as
this a large part of how the film will turn out, if no one in the team sticks
to the schedule them the filming will fall apart this leads on another
important topic teamwork, teamwork is vital when doing group filming as
everyone needs to get involved as there would be far too much work for someone
to do individually in the time we had to do it. Teamwork is needed for pre-production,
production and post-production. Everyone in the group needs to be focused throughout
and work together to complete deadlines. We had times when our timing nearly
failed but we managed to get it all done I believe this is because of planning
I put into it.
As a group the majority of the time we worked well as a team
and got all the work done so we didn’t find we had many problems none that we
couldn’t make right or solve anyway.
I feel like the pre-production was definitely the hardest
part of the work as at certain times the group fell behind although we managed
to make up for it it was still a stressful time as we had tight deadlines to
reach with also the fact we still had to film and edit, Although we managed to
do it all I can appreciate my strengths of being able to create the work that was
due in time and make up other peoples missing work.
I believe my first attempt of the shooting schedule wasn’t
as realistic as my next one as I wouldn’t have had enough time to film outside
of college as originally planned as successfully as the film in college. As I
decided to film in college I felt calmed and relaxed and didn’t stress or such
as I had plenty of time to really think through my ideas. Although the shooting
schedule gave us a good idea of where to film and what shots would be used in
each segment .so I would say it was effective just not as realistic as we
originally planned.
Although the film wasn’t five minutes long the storyboard
gave a good guidance into the location and order of location, from looking at
the storyboard I could identify from the pictures the best area of the location
for filming for example the counselling room had a bulletin board with many
posters of mental illness pinned onto it, I felt this would be a better back
drop for filming compared to the other blank wall in the room, that’s why I
took a picture of the specific area.Next time I feel I would work more on the
storyboard to add more shots to lengthen the film time.
The shot list was a detailed guidance on what angle would be
used for each shot this wasn’t as effective as I had planned while writing a
detailed explanation for all the angles I wanted to use for each shot when it
came to the actual filming I found that I improvised on many of the shots to
what I felt would look good from watching and guiding Micah the talent, I feel
the shot list would have been more effective if we had rehearsed beforehand and
fit them in accordingly.
I was in charge of doing the recee, I went to all the locations
to ensure they would be suitable for filming I looked out for lighting as there
is no natural light in either of the locations. we used the ceiling light if
the ceiling light was not effective I would have had to use the overhead media
lights. I also had to be aware of background noise as the counselling room is
near the canteen, I made sure I filmed during lesson time for as little
background noise as possible, I also used a sign to say filming in progress
please use other toilets so no one came into the toilets mid filming. I got
permission from Mr. Kelly to film the counselling room.
The original actor Chillapi was unavailable for filming so I
had to make the quick decision to use Micah for the filming as I knew she had
done media gcse, also were she is in my group she had a good idea of the film
and would take instructions from me the director what to do when filming.This
was an effective decision as she did everything I thought she would and helped
me to create the film I wanted.
I feel the production roles were effective for the role each
person was given for example me doing all the filming and being the director
worked well as I could give clear instructions of what needed to be done in a
calm mannor so everyone could get the work done and enjoy themselves at the
same time, I designated Melissa the role of production manager as I knew she
was responsible ad would get on with it. Micah was a brilliant actor and really
brought the film together better than anyone else would of.
The equipment was key in the production as if we had been
given a faulty camera and not have checked this would of severely delayed the
schedule of filming as the camera would of needed to be replaced and charged, I
ensured the camera was checked beforehand with Mr.French, I also requested a
suitable camera stand that would be flexable for our varity of shots which it
proved to be.
Although we did a call sheet it fell through on the day of
filming as I had to wait an hour for everyone to show up, I could of avoided
this by making it more realistic and checking with everyone beforehand instead
of just expecting everyone to be in college as everyone had different lesson
times.
Overall I feel my short film was effective due to teamwork
and not getting stressed when things went wrong, from doing this short film I’ve
learned lots of new skills to help me with future media productions and films,
doing this task in a team allows you to appreciate other peoples strengths and
weaknesses and what you can learn and gain from them. I felt I would struggle
more with the actual filming and editing than the pre-production work but I
found it was the opposite next time I will allow myself more time for the pre-production
work as this is what I found I struggled most with while finding the filming
and editing both easy and fun.
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Production Log - Micah Pollard
Production
Log –
Altogether my group and I decided to do 10
individual shots for our short film, this was because we wanted to have good
quality shots so that we could have a variety to choose from. We then chose the
shots that we wanted to keep and the ones we were going to delete. The way that
I edited my film was in a non-linear way as it included flash backs and other
techniques that made it seem unusual. I wanted the whole idea to across surreal
to the target audience this is why I formatted my film in this way. Melissa did
the story board which turned out good as she managed to include the important
shots that was in the script. Melissa used 17 shots for the story board which
was a good idea as it was a lot to choose from with good quality shots to use.
Another thing Melissa did was the script
which was the most important as it was the whole idea of the film. This was panned
out and written well as it had all the lines that I needed to learn in the film
which turned out very successful.
Aoife did the shooting schedule which
include things such as planning out the locations to film and the type of shots
which we were going to use. This was done very nicely as it helped stage the
whole setting and atmosphere of the film which made it more realistic and fun
to watch.
Aoife also did the call sheet which consist
of putting together the times on when we were supposed to film and sorting out
each specific roles for the groups.
I did the risk assessment which means that
I had to ensure that I covered all the areas that we were filming had no hazard
around that could cause an injury to anyone in the team when filming. This was an
important role as everyone health and safety matters when filming.
production log-melissa
Production log
17 march
2015:All together we filmed a total of eight times, in this time we have
discussed our film and what things would and wouldn't work for our
pre-production, we then discussed how we wanted our film to run for example,
linear and non-linear, also the order our film is going to run, discussing the
shot types that we all wanted to use and how we wanted the film to be filmed,
we also discussed the actors, how many we wanted and how they would fit into
the film, we also discussed who we wanted to act in our film as we wanted a
particular actor who would fit the role perfectly. We watched everyone’s PowerPoints
and decided what one was going to be more practical therefore we chose aoife’s
film, because we all liked this idea.
18 march: I
started the pre-production work , I went to our locations, the toilets, hall
way and counselling room and took pictures for the storyboard altogether I took
a total of 17 pictures of the storyboard and added the shot types and also the
angles, these included Birdseye shots, over the shoulder shots in the counselling
room.
19 march: the next meeting we had is about what people are
up to in their productions, how fat along they are and if they are having any
trouble in their pre-production work, I had trouble with the storyboard as I found
it was difficult to put the right shots in and make the movie flow as
non-linear. The rest of the group were fine with their work aoife working on
the script and making sure everyone was okay with it, coming back to the group
and asking if anyone thought it could be improved. Micah was also consoling
with the group asking if we thought she needed to add anything to her work
25 march 2015: I continued to work and progress on the
storyboard taking re shots and taking some pictures away, Aoife then worked on
the script, production roles and the recce, Micah then did the risk assessment and
the list of actors and why some of the comments made on the risk assessment
were not updated due to slight change in location for our film, changing the
location at the beginning from Aoife’s house to the toilets. My role as well as
the storyboard was doing the call sheet and shooting schedule.
14 April:
After everyone had finished their pre-production work and uploaded it, we then
started planning our filming, hiring out equipment and deciding when we was all
available to film. We had to change the day of filming from Thursday to Friday due
to the fact that all the cameras were booked out on that day.
01 may:
Before we started filming we had to make sure we had everything ready, making
sure the actors and the equipment was ready and set up so we could start to
film as soon as. Our film was slightly delayed filming because one of the
actors Micah was not available at the time we original time we set. Therefore we
had to wait an hour before we could film our film. A script was available to
the whole team and a the shooting schedule as we needed to know what the actor
was saying and if they stayed on task for the film and in what order we were
going to film our film making sure everyone knew what they were doing and that
everyone was organised for our film
04 may:
After we had filmed our film we looked back over if and everyone watched the
clips deciding if everyone was happy with what was shot and what we thought
needed to be re-shot, changed or added to. The whole group was happy with the
angles and the actor the way it was filmed, and how it was shot, also we were
happy with the amount of shots we had, feeling that it would make the film flow
nicely without any parts either dragging out or not making the film flow.
Group meetings by Aoife
March 17
We had several meetings in our group to discuss the pre-production
for the film, our first meeting was to discuss the actual idea for the film
this was a brief meeting as I had already come up with the film idea a long
time ago when miss.shutzer was my teacher, I discussed my film idea to Melissa
and Micah and they both agreed it was a good idea, I worked on the idea and
added little bits to improve it.
March 19
Our next meeting was with Mr Simmonds after we showed him the
PowerPoint of our film he gave us feedback and discussed the film with me he
gave positive feedback and gave us a few points to think about that I took away
and worked on such as location and ideas.
April 13th
The next meeting was as a group with Mr. Barton on hes first
lesson with us,this is where we told him the idea for the film and what we was
planning on doing, he gave us feedback and helped us to expand and make our
film better with a more realistic believable story line, I took hes ideas and
feedback from the class and changed the storyline from her hallucinating to
there being another self.
April16
We then had to begin all the pre-production before we could
film, sir designated certain roles to people in the group to complete. My role was
to create the shot list,script,production roles and recee I completed these
tasks to fit the film and the group although these were my roles I refered back
to my group to make sure they agreed with what I was saying which they all did.
For the script I thought about the set up and location and the order of the
shots to ensure it all made sence and would be do able when it came to filming,
the shot list also had to have thought as this is also an important document
that needs to be used when filming to give it order. For the recee I had to
visit my filming locations which was the toilets and counselling room I had to
make sure they were suitable locations for filming, If I hadn’t visited these
locations beforehand I could of come unstuck when filming as the locations could
have been to noisy or even not possible to film in, I needed to get permission from
Mr. Kelly to film in the counselling room and this room could have been used at
a time when I had planned to filmed.
April 6th
Melissa began her pre-production roles which included the
call sheet, shooting schedule and storyboard, she referred back to me while
doing these as we decided I would be the director and in charge of the filming
so it was key she knew what she was writing. Melissa wrote out everything from
our original filming location although this was changed nearer to the time of
filming. The storyboard consisted of 17 pictures of possible locations for
filming including pictures of our actual locations the toilets and the
councelling rooms from doing this it gave me a good idea of what angles could
be used during the filming for example a birdseye shot over the toilet door.
April 9th
Micahs pre-production work consisted of the risk assessment,
although she wrote about lots of risks some of them were irrelevant to our film
for example cars we didn’t have to deal with the hazard of cars as we filmed no
were near the road, she wrote about how filming in a bathroom could come with
risks such as electric damage and how she could prevent this happening by being
cautious and keeping the camera away from running water. She also wrote about
how if we filmed in a classroom we wouldn’t want it to look like a classroom as
this is irrelevant to our film, she said we could move the chairs out of the
way as this could be a hazard of tripping over and also would look more professional
out of the frame. Micah’s other production role was to write about out backup
actor if she was unable to film she wrote how Chillapi would be a good actor in
our film and why.
May5th
Before I went on to film I had to make sure everyone knew
what day we was filming on and what time we had problems at this point because
the team members couldn’t fully ensure they would be able to film at that specific
time, at this point I knew there wouldn’t be enough time to film In the
original location being the bedroom I had to make the decision to go back on my
pre production work and change the location on the script to the college as I
knew this would be easier for me and my team members to film in time, im glad I made this decision as I feel if I hadn’t
the film would of failed instead of how it turned out to be.
May8th
On the day of filming the Friday I suggested before my team
showed up I made sure a camera would be available to film with and I printed
out my script to give to the team so they knew the shot order and how the day
was going to run although I thought the backup actor was going to have to be
used Micah pulled through and allowed us to create what I believe a successful short
film in which she very professionally acted
in while I filmed and Melissa gave some direction as well as acting as the
councellor.
May12th
After four hours of filming different shots we had gathered
our rushes ready to be edited individually we looked through the rushes as a
group to make sure we had the right shots and didn’t have to re film or add any
other scenes into the film which we didn’t, we all agreed we was ready to edit
the film individually.
We had many short meetings as a group some good some bad throughout
the pre production work the production work and the post production work, the
film ran smoothly without technical issues .we all pulled through to reach
deadlines and create the short film in time and to what I believe to be a good
standard.
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