Story Board

    These pictures are my groups storyboard. The storyboard is something that is designed to give a rough idea of how finished product is going to look. We were tought somevery important aspects of storyboarding and the filming process, things such as timing, positioning of character and transitions. These individual drawing will be important when we begin to make our anamatic presentation.

Evaluation of the Continuity Task

Evaluation of the Continuity Task

How has the continuity task aided your understanding of the film process?

 This continuity task has taught me a lot of things about making a film first hand. Going out and filming the footage ourselves and in my own case playing small role in the continuity task helped me to learn various things about the practical side to filming, for instance it is very important that you do not break the 180 degree rule. I truly believe that the problems my fellow group mates and I had encountered when filming our continuity task will defiantly benefit us in making the the opening title sequence!

 What problems did we come across during the continuity task and how did we overcome them?

 When we began to filming process of the continuity task no one in my group had used the video recording equipment, but soon after familiarising ourselves with it, it became like second nature. The same problem cropped up when we were in the editing stage of process of making the final product of the continuity task; the problem was the fact that none of us knew how to use any of the editing software, however our teacher Mr Michie and Mr Ford quickly pointed us in the right direction, which was a great help. The ending of the final product it would be fair to say was not executed to the best of abilities, the shots did not flow perfectly due to a timing issue. However I am sure that this will not be a problem in the actual Thriller project.

 What did you do well on in your continuity task?

 On a whole I do believe that the continuity task went rather well considering this was my groups first attempt at filming and first attempt at editing our own footage. In the actual filming process we managed to use a wide variety of camera angles, we also we able to not break the 180 degree rule (however, this took careful concentration because it is easy to do it without thinking, which will get you in a bit of a pickle). Even though we made one or two wrong decisions I one hundred percent believe that we have learnt through trial and improvement from our mistakes.

Continuity Task

Continuity Task Locations

The locations that we have decided to use in our continuity task take place outside and inside of the Chikara centre at school.

The first location takes place just outside the front of the Chikara Centre at school.

The second location takes place inside the Chikara centre

Practice

We thought it would best if we practice some of the shots that we plan to use in our continuity task before we begin filming it. We began to draw up the storyboard and we struggled to visualise the camera angles and distances and what type of shots to use, so we decided to take some photos of Finley and me acting it out, taking these photos gave us something to copy from when we were drawing up our storyboard. 

This is a practice photo of a high angled shot looking up at Finley from my perspective.
(This shows him to have superiority over me)

This photo is an over the shoulder shot that is looking down at me (low angle shot) from Finley's perspective. Making me seem inferior.

Preliminary Task

When we are making our continuity task we have to provide a shot list and follow a list of certain technical requirements to follow when we are filming and editing.

These are the technical requirements that we need to stick to:

• You must include a shot reverse shot.
• You need to include more than one location. 
• You need to include a shot reverse shot.
• You must include some non-diegetic score.
• You need to include some interaction between characters.
• You must edit so that continuity is apparent and meaning is clear.
• You MUST not break the 180 degree rule. 

The locations that we are using are the Chikara Centre and the drama studio.

The two characters that we are using are Finley and I.

This is our groups shot list:

• Over the shoulder shot of 'Person A' entering the Chikara centre. 
• Close up of them opening the door. 
• Close up of 'Person A' looking around the building for 'Person B'.
• they then walk up and and opens the second door.
• Cuts to Drama Studio.
• Establishing shot of 'Person B' writing.
• Close up of 'Person B' face.
• 'Person A' then walk towards 'Person B'.
• Shot reverse shot of 'Person A' asking "where is my pencil case?" and then 'Person B' replies "please Finley, I really need it"
• Shot of 'Person A' going to hit 'Person B'
• The screen cuts to black just before he punches.
• 'Person A' exits through the same door. 

This is what our storyboard looks like:

Strengths and Weaknesses of Editing

Strengths and Weaknesses of Editing

This is a picture of my notes from class, where I learnt for the first time how to edit. We used Adobe Premiere Pro. Our (Melissa and I) task was to watch a clip of a previous students thriller coursework and then try and recreate it as close to the original as we could. We had to recreate the clip from the raw files and insert non diegetic sound and music, we also had to put the titles into the clip as well. 

Around 3/4 of the way through the lesson our original saved file of our editing work was accidentally deleted, as a result of this the only thing we could do was to start the whole process all over again, which was very frustrating. On a whole I found the editing task to be relatively straight forward but not too easy. I found this whole exercise thoroughly enjoyable. This lesson was very important in my media work, because I now know the basics of editing.

Attempt at Storyboarding

Attempt at Storyboarding

These are pictures of Melissa Kerrison and my first attempt at storyboarding. The title that we were given to use was "Terror in the night" we found this a fun and interesting task, however the title was a little cliche.

In the storyboard we had to draw a picture of what is happening, list the type of shot for that scene and how long that shot lasts for and also we had to list down any sound or dialogue. In this storyboard there are eight shots in total.  

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

These two pictures are notes on storyboarding that we were taught by our teachers. My teacher showed us all a video clip of a director that used storyboarding to plan out what is going to take place in the finished product. From this I have learnt that it is very important to use storyboards to get a general idea of what is going to take place, storyboarding gives you an overall idea of research, planning, visualisations, timings, ideas of tone, camera angles and most importantly it allows you to go back over and review the ideas and make alterations to individual scenes.


This is the story board that we made for our continuity task.