Progression from my preliminary task to my BSR opening
Above is my preliminary task. Thinking back to this task , I can recall what went well and what went wrong.
The match on action was much easier to film than anticipated. I filmed the actor walking into the room twice. Once from one side of the door and the second from inside the room on the other side of the door. This was then edited to make it look like you could see the actor walking into a room , it shows a shot from behind , the actor making her way through the door and then once into the room. This was a good example of continuity editing as it was clear with no transitions or not jumpy editing present.
During production there were very few problems , but there was still some things that could of made filming and editing much easier. In a more technical approach , the tripod wasn't always at the right height for filming as we wanted to originally include a birds eye view shot , but this was difficult to do so , so we cut this out. The lighting of the drama studio was often too lowkey and dark in certain angles , so we had to make the lighting more brighter but this often took away the mood of the setting, but we overcame this by using the studio lighting rather than artificial room lighting.
The biggest problem was the 180 degree rule breaking, during editing we had realized the rule had been broken.We tried to re-film but the person who played the interviewer was not able to re-film due to their own schedule, so the 180 degree was therefore broken, so If I had the chance to re-film I would shoot the 180 degree rule again. In my opinion, breaking this rule may have theoretically given me a disadvantage but in real life film industries, not all plans work out , and I have made a good job of editing regardless and did the best I could in my situation , so although this may have been a problem I had faced, I had learn alot from it and it has given me an insight on how filming and editing problems can easily occur but can just as easily be concealed.
The biggest problem was the 180 degree rule breaking, during editing we had realized the rule had been broken.We tried to re-film but the person who played the interviewer was not able to re-film due to their own schedule, so the 180 degree was therefore broken, so If I had the chance to re-film I would shoot the 180 degree rule again. In my opinion, breaking this rule may have theoretically given me a disadvantage but in real life film industries, not all plans work out , and I have made a good job of editing regardless and did the best I could in my situation , so although this may have been a problem I had faced, I had learn alot from it and it has given me an insight on how filming and editing problems can easily occur but can just as easily be concealed.
Post-production was personally my favorite part of creating 'The encounter' as I enjoy editing, but if I was to edit again , I would of used more of the footage I had.I was very adamant on making my work short and to the point but I could of edited in more shots to add to the story line.
I would rather re-film these parts because I felt like the parts I didn't use were not put in because they could of been made better, for example , the interviewer was meant to throw her chair , but the chair was out of shot too quickly which was too hard to edit smoothly for continuity without looking like the camera was out of place, so if I had the chance to work on this again , I would re-film this and also re edit it.
One of my overall strengths of my work , is my creativity.My theme and my ideas were much different than the others in my class which made my work stand out more.I was creative with my props ,such as creating the newspaper article myself, using fake blood and making an outfit for Sally.
Another strength I had was with my digital technology because the cameras were very efficient to use and the iMacs had iMovie already installed so editing was sleek.Logistically I needed different lighting than the average natural and artificial and low-key type, so it was my idea to use the studio lights for colour ,such as red, to give our finished work an edge and set a much darker mood. This made my location a strength as it was easy to work with and had all the necessary equipment such as the blocks and curtains and studio lights.
I would rather re-film these parts because I felt like the parts I didn't use were not put in because they could of been made better, for example , the interviewer was meant to throw her chair , but the chair was out of shot too quickly which was too hard to edit smoothly for continuity without looking like the camera was out of place, so if I had the chance to work on this again , I would re-film this and also re edit it.
One of my overall strengths of my work , is my creativity.My theme and my ideas were much different than the others in my class which made my work stand out more.I was creative with my props ,such as creating the newspaper article myself, using fake blood and making an outfit for Sally.
Another strength I had was with my digital technology because the cameras were very efficient to use and the iMacs had iMovie already installed so editing was sleek.Logistically I needed different lighting than the average natural and artificial and low-key type, so it was my idea to use the studio lights for colour ,such as red, to give our finished work an edge and set a much darker mood. This made my location a strength as it was easy to work with and had all the necessary equipment such as the blocks and curtains and studio lights.
Comparing my work to my british social realism opening , alot has changed and improved in terms of my filming and editing.I
have developed my camera skills drastically in comparison to my preliminary
task. In my preliminary task I had not managed to do my match on action as
accurately as I had wanted, but my opening sequence had not only successful match on action , but I
also had shown much more impressive camera angles and movements. The planning
for my bsr opening was much
more thorough also. The shooting script was more detailed compared to a
storyboard so my footage was much fluid like planned. I also feel like this production was much more creative because we got to develop our own desires instead of following the scene we was told to create in the preliminary task.
