What Went Well?

The movie itself turned out ok, we got a few camera shots in, mainly low ones a high one and a few distant ones. The length of the film comes to 2 minutes 35 seconds including credits. It went mostly to plan but we did add extra scenes that were not planned, they fit in well with the overall clip and came to us naturally.

I managed to get some music and sound effects which really help reinforce the action of the clip, it makes it feel more epic and intense.

By using our surroundings i was able to get some nice camera shots in, the picture at the top was taken from the top of a slide at a park, it is almost like a crane shot.


What Didn’t Go So Well

The sound for the characters was recorder using the video camera, so in scenes where it is far away the actors had to shout. It would have been better if we either had better audio recording hardware or dubbed voice clips over the top of the video. Because the video was filmed late, I did not get many different locations in. A better location would have made the video better. Perhaps an actual office for the headquarters of the CIA would have made it more believable.
The screenplay contains more action than dialogue this is something i was worried about. By turning the clip into a film trailer it works ok though.

I would of liked to have got sound effects into the movie but i could not figure out how to do it. I think it would helped display the action in the movie.

Some of the camera angles were hard to perfom because of the condition my leg is currently in. The camera is often shakey and that is partly because of my leg. We did not have a tripod or any other device, perhaps we could of tied it to something.

What I Would Do Differently Next Time

Start recording the film earlier and have a better plan, so the film looks more like how the documents planned it. I would also do more research into video clips of a similar nature and use better sound recording. I would like to get more locations in next time, use more and better props. Possibly costumes too. Make the mise en scene better, to make the video more believable. My video requires a lot of imagination from the viewer.

I would also probably make a better plot (that actually makes sense) with better scripts and pre production.

Screenplay

Scene 1: Door Scene.

•  Sean slowly pushes open the door, he cannot contain his excitement and enthusiasm.
•  Sean casually walks towards the chair, sits down and awaits his suprise.
•  To Seans suprise a male stripper enters the room and shows off his sexy dressing gown?
•  Ryan the male stripper places his hat on top of Seans head, Sean quickly throws it back at him and  runs for the door out of pure fear.
•  Out of breath Sean closes the door and takes a quick breather.

Scene 2: Betrayed.

•  Sean returns to his house where he finds his best friend mocking and laughing at him.
•  Sean realises it was a set up from the very beginning to prank him on his birthday.
•  Sean stares at Gareth angrily.
•  Little did Gareth know, Sean used to be a proffesional boxer.
•  Sean punches Gareth across the face causing him to fall the ground causing an earth shattering force.
•  Confused and scared Sean runs out the door and into the sunset, he can not believe he knocked out his best friend.

Preliminary Brief Outline:

Continuity task involving filming and editing.
Must contain a shot of a door opening, someone crossing a room, someone sitting down opposite another character.
Must exchange a couple of lines of dialogue between the two.
This task should demonstrate match on action, shot reverse and 180 degree rule.

- Pre Production
- Production
- Post Production

Movie:

1:!

Camera Angles:

Types of camera shots:
Long shot - (see me on the right)

The long shot captures the whole body of a person.

An extreme long shot - (see ryan right) contains the whole body of a person and a lot of the secenery.

The Sandman

Last Friday we watched a short "kids" horror film called "The Sandman". It was animated by the Brothers Quay. (Stephen and Timothy Quay)

The video is made up entirely of puppets, i think stop motion is used to make the puppets look like they are moving, i say this because it does not look smooth and fluent enough to be computer animated but im not entirely sure. Either way it's pretty creepy and it gives the film a unique feel and style.

The first time we watched it without sound and a little innocent boy goes to sleep, but little does he know that the devious Sandman is going to rip his eyes out right from their sockets! Also the Sandman himself is a very pointy kind of character with sharp edges, much like the logo for the film. Without sound i focused more on the characters movement and the setting. The boys face is especially important, the camera often zooms in on his face to show you how scared he is. The camera angles are also positioned to make the boy look very small compared to the enviroment. Most of the scenes use earthy soft colours and have very low key lighting with more light on certain parts of the scene to draw your attention.

We watched it with sound afterwoods and the creaks of the stairs and other sound effects helped build tension. Its actully quite scary, but everyone was laughing we could not believe it was a kids film.

The start of a magical adventure of hope and wonder!

Welcome fellow media enthusiats!

This is the famous Max Fletcher and over the course of the next year or two, ill be posting random stuff about the media. Why am i doing this you ask? The answer is simple my friends, i have to.
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