In the last year i have been creating a short film with lads in the class. I learnt a lot about camera shots and what they represent and show the audience. I have also learnt about the equipment and how certain groups of people are represented in the media.
We also went on to watch a film called Shifty which was writen and directed by Eran Creevy. We learnt about the way digital technologies are used. We analysed and did research into british realism as a genre and used web 2.0 to do our research. Generaly web sites such as wikapeadia and google were used to research this. This was one of my strengths as i use web 2.0 everyday. One of my main weaknesses was definatly time management. we struggled to get much done to begin with and ended up doing most of our filming and editing in the last two weeks.
Once we had looked at Shifty and discussed how different the camera work and budgets etc. were to hollywood films we started to look at the film, London to Brighton which was another low budget british film directed and writen by Paul Andrew Williams. We did research on these films and learnt a great deal about each mostly looking at the way they were filmed and the quality of the filming etc.
Once we had done that we went on to do our bloggs which took some time as i was'nt completely sure on what to do. This was definatly a weakness of mine and i struggled to write enough posts and talk about globalisation and institutions etc. I did plenty of research on films that were similar to the film we were going to make and so this was a strength of mine. Another weakness of mine was getting a story board together. I should have done this in the earlier stages and so this was another reason time management needed to be improved.
We also went on to watch a film called Shifty which was writen and directed by Eran Creevy. We learnt about the way digital technologies are used. We analysed and did research into british realism as a genre and used web 2.0 to do our research. Generaly web sites such as wikapeadia and google were used to research this. This was one of my strengths as i use web 2.0 everyday. One of my main weaknesses was definatly time management. we struggled to get much done to begin with and ended up doing most of our filming and editing in the last two weeks.
Once we had looked at Shifty and discussed how different the camera work and budgets etc. were to hollywood films we started to look at the film, London to Brighton which was another low budget british film directed and writen by Paul Andrew Williams. We did research on these films and learnt a great deal about each mostly looking at the way they were filmed and the quality of the filming etc.
Once we had done that we went on to do our bloggs which took some time as i was'nt completely sure on what to do. This was definatly a weakness of mine and i struggled to write enough posts and talk about globalisation and institutions etc. I did plenty of research on films that were similar to the film we were going to make and so this was a strength of mine. Another weakness of mine was getting a story board together. I should have done this in the earlier stages and so this was another reason time management needed to be improved.
Whilst filming i learnt about what types of shots worked with others and not to break the 180 degree rule. I did however find the editing the harder part and was marked quite low as another member of the group did most of this. After last year i know what to improve on and will be making much more effort, alot earlier. I enjoyed filming and learnt alot about how digital filming is done. This went from a weakness to a strength. It also helped that i had many ideas and so this meant that not having a story board was'nt as bad as it could have been.
The editing i feel is my main weakness as i left it all to Ben in my group. This year i would like to change that and focus alot more on the editing so that it becomes a strength. I did however do voice recordings on the mac to be played whilst the film was being played. I found the mac much easier to use and when filming earlier on in the course, i used the mac and could edit alot easier.
I also learnt this year what things to avoid when filming so that it made things easier when editing. Taking such things as filming horizontaly instead of verticaly into consideration will help me when filming and editing in the future.
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