Intro to useing still cameras.

I thins lesson we went rounfd the school with a partner to take pictures of each other. the idea of theis exersise was to practise getting the diffrent shots that we would need to know in our production shot. and also learning about the rule of thrirds.

Account of editing Preliminary task.

In this lesson we lerant how to edit useing fiuanl cut pro. We were shown very quickely how it worked then we started onm are own peices at first work was slow but once we learnt the short cuts and the general idea of things it was a simple task to edit the sort sequence that we shot. we onlt covere basics in this and didnt look at fade transsisions and titles or any thing we would cover thoses during the actual production making.

Account of shooting preliminary task.

In this lesson we shot the prelim task in our future grouops for our production. this was a fairly easy straight forward task that we had to do it involved us simple getting two actors to act a very short sceen with a set script and a set number of shots that we had to get for the task.

The shots that we had to get involved very simpole and not very complicated tasks. shots were things like over the shoulder wide and close ups.

New media sited to draw insparation from

www.portablefilmfestival.com

www.urbanjunkies.com

www.kultureflash.com

www.moviestorm.com

www.aswarmofangels.com

Account of casting decisions and storyboards.

Casting for us was rather easy because we only had one person to cast. But that meant that we had to think extra hard about whom we wanted playing that role. We spent a good amount of time on Google images looking for certain stereotypes. So we could get the face and the costume right.In the end we invited an actor that the school uses a lot called Russell Layton to be in our film. We paid him a standard day rate - which was ok as we split it between 4 people (about £35 each with travel and expenses) and managed to borrow most of the other stuff we needed. So the most expensive part of our production was our actor, so lucky we kept our action confined to a small room so we didnt have to go anywhere and cause greater expense.

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These pictures are some of our original storyboards.

First lesson with Final cut pro

We used ADOBE Final Cut Pro (which is a non linear editing program) to edit our prelim task and it was difficult at first. Some of the things we learnt included how to make bins of clips, and how to edit them on a timeline, how to make rough cuts and add audio clips to other parts of the lines. Later we will experiment with the audio for these images also.

Account of props and original location

What we needed was the right clothes and then some little other things to show of the character in his house - so costime and props were important to show personality and status of ouir main character.
For example the skull that we had against the wall and the other things to show that he had travelled to Africa or somewhere exotic that brought back the evil force.

Another very important prop that we did need was the photos that had the black lines on them so we could get the continuity correct. We got are production designer Elektra to make the butterfly photos on photoshop and printed them on photographic paper, then borrowed lots of props like trays and tweezars from the science lab, and borrowed some statues from a teacher.

THE CHEMISTRY LAB WAS OUR ORIGINAL
LOCATION BUT WE DECIDED IT
LOOKED TOO MUCH LIKE A
SCHOOL, SO LOOKED FOR OTHER ROOMS.

These are the photos of our final dark room at LEITH HILL with the red head lights

We were annoyed that are shoot day changed which made the chemistry lab unavailable, but in a way this was better as we ended up shooting at are second choice which was 15 mins drive in a school minibus away. We were lucky that are school sponsored this so we didnt have to pay for transport or a driver directly, and we lent the house for free through a friend of a friend.

We used a red bulb and black bin bags to block the windows, and with props such as tray, tongs, string (for hanging photos), film negatives, projector, etc, the dark room looks very professional.

The photos on the wall shows his hobby clearly, and the souvenirs shows part of the protagonist’s personality which is like to travel around different places.

For costume, we prefer the idea of casual and a bit geeky T-shirt to show he's just a ordinary photographer, therefore evoke audiences' sympathy in this way or they would see him as an average guy.