Sunday, 10 March 2013

Prelimary Task - The Briefcase

The Task - Before we could do an actural opening for the main video we had to complete the prelimary task. This was to film someone walking across the room, opening a door, sitting down opposite another person and exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. I worked with Dom and Curtis on this task

Our Idea - For our video we had the idea of someone with a briefcase and they had to deliver it to their boss, making the briefcase the main prop. I played the person with the briefcase, Curtis played the boss and Dom was our camera man. In the video I was typing on the computer and then I picked up the briefcase walked to the room to meet the boss and then I would pass on the briefcase.

Filming Problems - We had a few problems along the way but we then fixed the problems as we went along. Our furst problem was the setting for our room at the time of the shooting we had only room to use but we wanted to look like a different room, however on another day of recording we found an empty room which was not being used. Another problem was the avaliabitly for the rooms often the room we would want would be in use, but we fixed it by spliting up our days to the avaliabilty of the rooms. The final problem we had was on the last day of filming when our camera man (Dom) wasn't in but we used a tried pod, however that problem got worse and we had trouble choosing the way the room should be set but after disscussing it we finally made a decision and finished shooting the rest of the task.

Editing - The editor for our task video was Curtis as he had the most experince with editing software outside of sixth form. Most of the editing was easy we all agreeded on the font style, the effects and the way it was to be edited and we all decided as a group what we wanted to keep and what to throw away.

Editing Problems - We had a few problems with editing but we solved quick and done it as a group. One problem was that at one point in the video the light in the room was too bright than the other videos, we over came this by making the video darker to match the others. Another problem was a filming error where we had blinds shut then open but we fixed it by moving the clip around to match it up with the video. Finally our last problem was audio which in one clip you could here a door shut and again in another clip here it again and it didn't sound smooth, we over came this by looking at the clips and seeing what we could use for audio till it sounded smooth.

Conclusion - If we were to this task over again to make it better than we would:
  • Check for room avaliablity before we shoot the video
  • Shoot when everyone is there
  • Decided how we want the room set before we record
  • To not change the lighting in case it effects the clips
  • Make sure that we don't change anything in a scene from the previous scene

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