question 6

Marion Bossongoy

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

The equipment that we used was cannon XHA1 and the software which I used was adobe.

One of the filming techniques that I used was continuity. What I learnt from this was that I was able to make my film flow without any jumps. For example within the opening sequence i made sure that shamus woke up when he heard his name being shouted during the escape scene. The framing of the shots i made sure that I used a variety. What i learnt from this is that the framing is important as it makes the film more interesting as your seeing the film from many different points of you. For example within our film i used different types of shots for example i used bird eye view of shamus and grace running for safety and also the tracking shots were used. We also filmed 180 degree rule which is not to cross the invisible line while filming and we also made sure that our characters where in the centre. Also i learnt about action reaction shots. I now understand that the actions need to match the reaction of what’s going on in the film for the film to seem more realistic. For example within my film the teacher got shot and he had to fall so that it showed his reaction getting killed. Also during our editing process we made sure that we used match on action which was of shamus walking through the door and him walking from the door so that it wouldn’t look jumpy. I learnt a lot from using total shots & safety shots. For example we had used a safety shot of the teacher getting shot . the good thing about this is that it shows him and the whole background as if we made a mistake we were able to use it.

The editing that i had used was the splice tool. The reason why i had used this was to get rid of unwanted bits within the scenes as there was no point of having it within the film. We mixed two tracks together in order for them to come out as one track. The reason why i had used this was because as we had a noisy background we wanted a track to overtake the sounds. Also we wanted the sound from the screen to go with the image on the screen so that the audience wouldn’t get confused as to what is going on. Also we did an assembly edit which was to basically put everything in order so that we knew the bits we wanted to cut what i have learnt from all this is that the editing stage is a major part of the whole film as it will determine how your film would end up looking like in the eyes of the audience confused of the story line. What we decided to do to solve this problems is that we decided to make a photo story so that it came more clearly to us and that people would understand more clearly what was going on with real life actors in the locations we was planning to use. The key points that we learned during this is that we need to make sure that people understand what we are trying to do and that also we do our storyboard more clearly so that people understand. The shooting schedule that we had is we all arrived at 7:30 am-5pm. The problems that occurred with our shooting day was that members of the cast arrived late therefore we had a slight deylay starting and also another issue we had was that there was an issue meaning we had to leave the school premises. The key things we learnt from this is that we need to be on time and start right away and leave no time as it well affect the quality of your film and what you actually have to do.

During the production of my film the props we had decided to use was folders and classroom chairs. The problems that occurred were that during the shooting process we noticed that we kept changing the pages of the folders therefore the continuity was messed up. The way we fixed this was that we had decided to reshoot the scenes over again and made sure we remembered what page we was going to use therefore continuity was not lost. The keys things learnt from this that next time we would use something more simple. also during the production we decided to use member from our team as the cast . the problems that occurred was that we didn’t have enough members do actually do what we wanted to do therefore our pre-production film was very limited in the ideas we had. The key things learnt from this was that next time we should only limit what we can do with the amount of cast you havr so next time things would run more smoothly. Also during my production of my pre-ilium the amounts of reshoots we done at first was very limited as we didn’t have many to choose from. What we did to solve this issue was that we decided to expand our reshoots from different scenes therefore we would have a varity of shots to chose from instead of keeping our shots very limited. Keys points learnt from this were that we noticed that without a variety of different shots your film will not look very good and would be boring to the audience. The timing that we had used for our film was from our last lesson till 5pm after school. Issues we had was that school activies so people were walking about distracting our shooting session. The solutions that we found was that we decided to use tell teachers that there was a shooting going on therefore they could be quieter and not allow the kids outside in the corrider. Key lessons learnt from this are that next time we should warn teachers before teaching.

During the main task we decided to get more members for our task so that it could fit in what we wanted to do for our film. The problems which encountered with this were that cast members came late and some of the cast didn’t know what they were doing. The way we solved this was that we started to shoot other scenes instead of the scene we wanted to start with and also we had to do a quick rehearsal so that everyone knew what they was doing . the key lessons learnt from this are that net time we would know to do rehearsals for the cast so that on the day of the production there would be no complications. Also during the main task the equipment that we had used was 2 toys, and a scarf as a blindfold. The problems that happened was that during the shooting process one of the toy guns broke so therefore we had to shoot the scenes again with a broken gun that looks excatley the same and it would make us look more prepared. in our main task we noticed that our variety of shots get better as from the feedback from our pre-production task we noticed that we didn’t use as many shots as we could have. Key lessons learnt from this were that you should always listen to the feedback you are given as it does help you within your tasks.

During the post-production and feedback while editing during the pre-production process we noticed that there was contunity mistakes therefore during the feedback we had an understanding of what we could have done better which was to be more careful while editing and took more time instead of rushing and making it look unfinished. Also during our pre-production we didn’t use any music therefore all we in could hear was background noise . what we could have done was block out the background noise. Key lessons learnt was that next time to block it out. Feedback we got from teachers was that we needed to be more careful with the camera movements that we done as some of our shots were shaky. Things we could have done better was to be more aware of the camera and to make sure that it was always still at all points filming.