Post Production Report

I found that capturing our footage was difficult in some aspects as some of the clips we had made did not go to plan. When filming we made a lot of mistakes, we filmed around ten minutes of footage and cut it down to two minutes, this took quite a long time rather than being more organized with our shooting schedule. Capturing the footage was fairly easy as are shot angles were listed down and we had gone with our instinct on what would be most appropriate for our clip.

The main difficulty of filming our clip was continuity; the room we had filmed in had many objects that could have been moved around to make the next shot look out of place. When filming the main focus I concentrated on was staying consistent with continuity and making no vital errors that were noticeable, in a few of our clips we had noticed that objects were in different places so we did have to re-film small parts of the clip just to make it right. In our group we all worked together well to avoid any continuity problems, when we were filming we reminded each other not to adjust any objects as the next few clips would be different from the first couple of clips, this would have looked un-professional.

We discovered that there were more errors in  our film, we had spent far too long trying to make the clip perfect by adjusting the setting and feel of the room, this made us forget about the angles and continuity of the clip so we had to re-plan and make the clips suit our film. We plugged the camera into the USB, we then uploaded all the footage to Adobe Premier and this is where we edited all the footage. I had some past experience with editing so I new the basics of how to put clips together and how to add affects, this helped me a lot as my group didn’t have this experience.  As I had filmed for a hobby I enjoy the editing and it gave me the basics of putting clips together, adding effects, and putting in sounds and titles. When are group got the hang of how to use Adobe Premier then we cracked on, we all found out that editing is more simple then people make it out to be and consists of adding clips together and adjusting them so they suit the final outcome of the film. The main difficulty we found when editing was straight cuts, we found that cutting the film down was a challenge as we had to make the film flow and for it to be consistent, when we were cutting the clips down we had trouble putting the clips together, after was had cut the clip down then the clip before this would have been separate making there be a pause and then it goes to the next clip, we then discovered there were pauses and errors so we found out why and it was because of clips we uploaded were to long for the film.

In our film we added two transitions, this was fade out and fade in, these transitions worked very well as they suited are film. We added transitions by clicking on effects, transitions and then fade in or fade out; we used these transitions as they were very effective for the clip we used them for. I think that using fade in and fade out was a great idea, it makes the clip look professional and we used both transitions appropriately making the outcome successful. We did not add music as it was inconvenient, we realized that there was no need in adding music or sound clips as we wanted the film to be professional, we did think of adding sound effect but this would have been a waste of time. At the end of the film we did add in credits, we needed to do this just to show the viewers who made the film and just to add to the ending, we added the credits by clicking the text box in the far left hand of the Adobe Premier software, it was a easy process that took no time at all.

Evaluation

The final outcome of are film was ok, there were many improvement to be made but in our group it was mostly everyone’s first go at editing and making a small film, it was a challenge for most of us but we tried our hardest and enjoyed it very much. We stuck with the criteria well and had objectives to achieve; we tried our hardest to focus on continuity and to keep objects in the same position, this was the main aspect we stuck with a tried to make it consistent. We tried to make our film fairly simple, by doing this we didn’t add many transactions and effects, are focus was to make a film fairly professional, we achieved this in our group as we all worked together well and stuck with our objectives.

Continuity

The main difficulty of filming our clip was continuity; the room we had filmed in had many objects that could have been moved around to make the next shot look out of place. When filming the main focus I concentrated on was staying consistent with continuity and making no vital errors that were noticeable, in a few of our clips we had noticed that objects were in different places so we did have to re-film small parts of the clip just to make it right. In our group we all worked together well to avoid any continuity problems, when we were filming we reminded each other not to adjust any objects as the next few clips would be different from the first couple of clips, this would have looked un-professional.

Types of shots

 This shot is a Extreme close up (ECU), this shot can be used to see facial expression and should just cover the mouth, nose and a small bit of the chin. You will mainly see Extreme Close up shots when something bad has happened to show the real expression on the actors face. You will see many Close up's in series, and on general TV as they are very effective shots.

Here is a Medium Shot (MS), this shot shows the actors body langauge well and get's the feeling of the actor through to the viewers. These can be very powerful shots as it can show how the actor feels and can have a great effect on the final outcome.

 Here is  Three-qaurter shot (3/4), again this type of shot can show the actors body language very well, it gets part of the body in so you can see how he is showing his body language by moving his arms in maybe fustration or just explaing something.

This type of shot is called Medium Long shot (MLS), this shows the whole body and can be used in any type of genre, it show's how the person is standing, it show's there full body langauge and gets the point across to the viewer what they are doing. Medium long shot's are great, this gives the chance to add in some of the enviroment, but also allows multiple people to easily interact.

 This is a Long/Wide shot (LS/WS), the long shot can be very simular to the wide shot. This shot can be very useful for displaying the enviroment behind the scene and some of the stuff happening around the scene. It can capture other audience's into the shot and shows the audience what they are surrounded by and what else is happening around them.

Here is a Over the Shoulder shot (OSS), this shot is framed from behind a person who is looking at the subject. The person facing the subject should usually occupy about 1/3 of the frame. This shot can be used for interviews and other serious parts of a film or programme.

Recce shots

Here is a location that not all of us agreed with, I think it's a great place to film as it's a nice size for our cast and equipment we need. The lighting is fairly dark but I think this would be a good affect towards the final outcome as the light makes it look serious, and the interview we will be doing will be intense but a clear understanding of what's happening.

This is a perfect location for filming our script as it invloves a interview that would need a office room that would fit in with our script. The lighting for the room is adjustable, if we needed it darker then we could simpy draw the blindes, the room could involve alot of sound like the sound of chairs moving, doors closing and people talking. The room is a good size and we will just have to set the layout of the room a little bit different to the photo as the meeting/interview table is to big for the space we need in the Kings room.



Here is another loaction up in the learning support room, the space we had was limited as the room is quite small to fit our cast and equipment in. The lighting and layout of the room was too small and the lighting was a little to dark, if we were going to film our script in this room then lighting would need to be adjusted.

Here are some drawings of CU (Close up), MCU (Medium close up), Big extreme CU, MLS (Medium long shot), Long/wide shot LS/WS, MS (medium shot), 3/4 three qaurter shot. These are many shots that can be acheived from one camera position, but this is not the case. You can use a wide angle setting on the zoom when framing close up will result in a lot of the back ground being shown; while using the telephoto setting for a close up will result in a small proportion of the back ground being visible.

This spider diagrame gives us some idea of what will be happening in our cip we will be making, for exmaple some of the shots that will be used and the rolls people are taking in the clip. This helped us a lot as it gave us more idea's and also gave us a visual image of what will be happening in the clip.

premliminary task introduction

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.