1st-6th December - Film Week 2

1st December

Joey, Nathaniel and myself came into Ravensbourne to plan as best as we could for the next day of filming. We first finalised our grid of obstacles, before continuing on to working on the storyboard. I need to develop my skills in storyboarding and planning, as I have found out from this project. Once we had completely finished the story on our storyboard, we created a shot plan for the next day of shooting, which we were also going to use as a log sheet for our file names.

2nd December

This was the day we filmed, before coming in to university for class. Things started going badly straight away, with everyone running at least somewhat late. By the time we had everyone together at last and we were ready to shoot, we were three hours through our six hour shooting schedule. This is when we began to panic, and our shoot almost completely fell apart in my opinion. Through this panic, we ended up with quite a few more problems. The first being our sound recordings where completely useless, as we hadn't set up the sound recorder correctly. Our sound recordings ended up being too quiet to be used. The next problem was our lighting, we didn't have enough time to sort out the lighting properly, nor did we think about this in the planning stage, so we did not think about hiring out any extra lighting/spot lighting. After this we forgot to film the scenes all the way through, creating cuts throughout whilst filming, this caused our editing to become really difficult. During this shoot, I gave my opinion on some of the shots, but I was predominantly acting for this.
After we had finally finished, with a very close call, we went to uni. When we were here we began to edit things together, this is when we discovered we really needed to work on planning and filming properly.

4th December

During this class, we focused on finishing the edit. My job through the editing was to try and fix some of the sound, because we had to use the camera audio, and to try and make the images look a little nicer with some colour correction.

6th December

For this crit, we received a lot of feedback. Most of the feedback we had already worked out from our experiences with filming and editing, but it was really welcomed and helpful.