Filming Schedule

Here Is My Groups Filming Schedule.

This is the schedule that my group plans to follow for our shooting.

Self Reflection: I think this schedule wouldn't really be needed by our group since we've already agreed in advance on what we need, when and where we'll shoot too, and the schedule may be subject to change. However it's nice to have it and could possibly serve as a reminder for us.

Made by me.

Classwork: Editing Practice

 This blog post contains the work I did with Alex in my lesson on how to succesfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but We edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post.

Why Is Continuity Editing Important?

- Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space

Different types of continuity edit 

• Straight cut (cut)

• Eyeline match 

• Shot /reverse shot

• Cutaway / Insert 

*Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic. 

Here is the raw footage:

My Editing Process

- We edited the video by first choosing which clip we'd like to have at the start and which ones would follow, we'd choose certain parts of the clip in which we'd cut and place another clip in replacement, we had to align it and time the clips well to esnure that we could maintain a sense of continuity and it won't look awkward. Thankfully me and my friend didn't face any errors during or after editing.

- Me and my friend made 2 versions of the edit. The first one being a normal attempt at editing the clip, and the second one was where we practiced further by using different filters and effects to give a different mood to the video.

Here Is Our Video:

Shooting Practice: (Crime/Drama) Scene Recreation

 This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. We did this project as a group.

Lesson Description: For todays lesson, my teacher told us to find a scene from a real movie that fits with our genre for Comp 1. Our task was to recreate a scene from the movie "Fight Club" as it fits with our planned movie genre, we recreated this as a group and split the task so that we each have something to contribute.

Original Scene Here: 

Storyboard Here:

Our Scene Here:

Problems:

- Audio Echoing

- Actors Changing Positions

- Lighting

- Tripods

- Mise-En-Scene

Solutions:

- No solutions.

- Used a piece of paper on the ground.

- No solutions.

- No solutions.

- No solutions.

Next Time:

- Use a proper microphone and choose better setting.

- Use labels/objects on the ground to identify our spots.

- Buy lighting equipment and shoot in time that fits our scene better.

- Bring a tripod

- Use outfits, setting, appearance that will better fit our scene.

Behind the Scene images:

Reflection: I think the shooting was alright, it was a pretty fun experience and getting to sharpen our saw is always welcome when it comes to media projects, I didn't feel all that comofrtable in acting since it feels awkward and I just don't think I'm all that cut out for acting but I won't mind doing it if I must. The group worked together really well in my opinion and everyone did their part and effort to help out, I hope we can synergise even more when we shoot the actual video.

We came across alot of drawbacks and issues when shooting though it isn't too big of a deal sincce it's just practice, I hope for the actual shooting we'll get whatever equipments, ligthing, clothing, and stuff that we need.

Classwork

 These are some key terms and theories we learned throughout our time in media studies class. Some of the work was taken from my teacherrs slides and somes is from the material we produced in class.

Location Scout and Risk Assessment

 This is my groups location scout and risk assessment

This was done by Me (Sagara) and Panji

The Location Scout and Risk Assesment wasn't too much of an issue for me an my group, despite changes in the overall theme of our film opening we always had these 2 locations in mind pretty much ever since we got into our groups so not much thought, planning, or research was needed to find main filming locations. What was hard though was finding alternatives to either of those locations, we did have time to find them during class but didn't really find any that we could use so we just have to stick with these.

Script and Screenplay

 This is my groups script and screenplay.

The script was a group effort though Arnold was the main writer.

  I can't say much as it comes to self refletion regarding the script and screenplay since I pretty much was just a helper or assistant for Arnold although I can say that it was pretty if not very difficult for us as a group and me especially, at times we couldn't really find out and decide what lines and words to use because it'd either be too awkward or cringe so we were hanging by a really fine thread, it also took a lot of time because we often faced challenges like running out of ideas or worrying about whether or not our script will be too long or streched out, we also had to consider if our actors would say the lines right and in a not awkward manner, despite this we managed to pull through and now all we need to do is put the script into practice and hope all goes well.

Storyboard

 This is the progress of my groups storyboard and the final results.

This was my groups first attempt at doing a storyboard, we realised though as we were doing it that this method of being detailed took way too long and as wasn't really efficient, because of this we decided to change it to a much simpler method. 

We also had to change a single aspect of the film which was the cigarette, the teacher taught us that smoking isn't cool and he'd get into trouble, so we switched it to something else.

This is my groups actual storyboard.

The Storyboard was a joint effort between Alex and Arnold.

I can't say anything about the storyboard since I didn't really do any of it, I attempted to do one of the boxes but my group members eyes had to be bleached after seeing it so I just gave the reigns to Arnold and Alex, all credits to them.