On Friday 20th November 2009, our group went to Tudor Square in Ware, Hertfordshire to film "Upstaged." Before filming we made a few adjustments to our storyboard which eventually became an animatic. In my last posting I said two of my group members would be playing my entourage. Now they are working behind the camera because they chose not to be filmed. We felt alright about the overall decision because we wanted everyone to participate in the action. Before I headed down to the location, It was a dull cloudy morning with early showers. Perry and I were speculating if the filming was going to take place. It turned out that five minutes before I went down to Ware I got a call from Perry saying that we should film because this was the only day we could film because other group members had personal commitments to attend to.
9:30: Setting up the camera, tripod and making sure we had all the props and costume we needed.
10:00: We started filming our first shot of the day. We took two takes just in case the sound couldn't be heard or we had problems with the camera.
10:30: Stayed in the same location for another hour shooting shot reverse shots, a montage of the main characters and tracking shots of the characters walking.
11:15: We went to the park to film 6 shots in a different location.
11:25: Firstly we filmed 5 takes of 1 shot because we had difficulty correcting the right camera angel.
11:35: We filmed a training montage of Perry in the park then a pan to show the park.
12:00: We headed back to the main highstreet to film the last two shots of the main characters.
12:30: finished a successful day of shooting
Hint: While filming, we did not film the shots in order because we had a chance to edit them the following week.
Hint: We followed our storyboard but we still had one shot to film which we had forgotten.
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Thursday, 12 November 2009
AS Media Foundation Production/Main Production Blog Postings
For this Production to create 2-5minutes of a film opening, our group consists of Perry Allen, Sam Walton, Sophie Legge and Laura Pinkney. I will be playing a spanish latin salsa dancing extraordinaire called Enrique Jaoquin Esteban Julio Ricardo Rodriguez III who is accompanied by a glamorous entourage. Perry will be playing my arch rival who is a professional dancer, and his character is based on someone from the 1970's. Sophie and Laura will be playing my glamour girls and they will be helping with the filming, make up and editing. Everyone has their own role and we did not want any one to feel left out.
The genre of our film is a comedy and our intended audience is for 15years or over. We based our comedy on films such as Blades of glory, Tropic Thunder and Anchorman.
Our film is called "Upstaged,"and it is about two rivals in the dancing industry. The film looks at each one's history and background and how these two dancers hate each other. In the end they meet each other and it does not go as planned.
Filmed by "Boris get out of my vegie patch" Productions. (By the way I am the only one who liked this name.)
The genre of our film is a comedy and our intended audience is for 15years or over. We based our comedy on films such as Blades of glory, Tropic Thunder and Anchorman.
Our film is called "Upstaged,"and it is about two rivals in the dancing industry. The film looks at each one's history and background and how these two dancers hate each other. In the end they meet each other and it does not go as planned.
Filmed by "Boris get out of my vegie patch" Productions. (By the way I am the only one who liked this name.)
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Monday, 2 November 2009
AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio: The Preliminary Exercise/Evaluation questions
When our group of four (Amy, Perry, Sam and Faye) in our media class filmed our Preliminary Exercise, we thought about the use of Camerawork, Mise en Scene, Editing Techniques and Sound Techniques. Amy and I,was behind the camera filming, finding locations and help edit the shots for our exercise to last thirty seconds to one minute.
In my opinion all the shots for our exercise were steady and in focus because the camera was on a fixed tripod at the right length for Faye and Perry so it is a right match (eye line match) The first couple of shots, we focused on the camera height and the correct position of each shot. When we used shot reverse shot, in a different location we used an eye line match, and a close up shot to show that the camera is focused on them. It was easier to get the eye line match correct for the shot reverse shot because they were all close ups, but it was difficult to get it correct when doing the corridor shots with Faye walking towards the camera but we are sure that the height and the position was adequate. Each subject was clearly visible because we focused on each person to get a good effect. I would change a couple of shots because of the use of lighting in the coommon room. In my opinion it was too dark when we were using a high angle shot to show Faye and it was diffult to see her facial features.
For our editing, there are jump cuts to show a change of location from the corridor to a different corridor and then the common room. In addition and from my perspective, the shot reverse shot sequence was very successful. This is because we did it twice from perru's face to Faye's face, but when we edited the shots, there was a smooth transition. In my opinion I am very weak on editing but I believe that the editing was good.
In some shots, the dialogue can be quiet because of background sound in the school and people talking over our action. We can correct this with editing. As I have metioned before, the lighitng in some shots was dark but we did not have any lights on in the shot. The background is appropiate because it fits in with our scene in general.
Overall, as a group we all had roles and we paricipated as a team. No one was left out, and we all enjoyed ourselves, considering our exercise had to be thirty seconds to one minute.
In my opinion all the shots for our exercise were steady and in focus because the camera was on a fixed tripod at the right length for Faye and Perry so it is a right match (eye line match) The first couple of shots, we focused on the camera height and the correct position of each shot. When we used shot reverse shot, in a different location we used an eye line match, and a close up shot to show that the camera is focused on them. It was easier to get the eye line match correct for the shot reverse shot because they were all close ups, but it was difficult to get it correct when doing the corridor shots with Faye walking towards the camera but we are sure that the height and the position was adequate. Each subject was clearly visible because we focused on each person to get a good effect. I would change a couple of shots because of the use of lighting in the coommon room. In my opinion it was too dark when we were using a high angle shot to show Faye and it was diffult to see her facial features.
For our editing, there are jump cuts to show a change of location from the corridor to a different corridor and then the common room. In addition and from my perspective, the shot reverse shot sequence was very successful. This is because we did it twice from perru's face to Faye's face, but when we edited the shots, there was a smooth transition. In my opinion I am very weak on editing but I believe that the editing was good.
In some shots, the dialogue can be quiet because of background sound in the school and people talking over our action. We can correct this with editing. As I have metioned before, the lighitng in some shots was dark but we did not have any lights on in the shot. The background is appropiate because it fits in with our scene in general.
Overall, as a group we all had roles and we paricipated as a team. No one was left out, and we all enjoyed ourselves, considering our exercise had to be thirty seconds to one minute.
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