Evaluation.

Since starting our media course we have been carrying out a series of tasks as part of our continuity project. For the final task we had to put together a short film to show what we had learnt in terms of shots and techniques by making sure to include match on action, cut in, cut out, 180 degree rule and shot/reverse shot.

We had to make a story board with still shots of cuts so that we had a plan of what we were going to be filming. This helped our group a lot as we had made some errors in the still photos that we were then able to correct when filming. The filming went really well and we completed in a short amount of time, we all took turns at filming but it was only Zoe and Emily acting. When we thought it was 'a wrap' we took our camera and plugged it into the computer to transfer the film to the Adobe programme for editing. None of us had used the programme before so it was a bit of trial and error before we finally got the hang of it and uploaded our film shot by shot ready to edit. We then clicked and dragged the selected shots and made them shorter and cut them so that they looked smooth and professional using match on action techniques.

When it came to adding the cut in we realised that we had filmed a zoom in instead. This was quite a problem and took a lot of changing and re arranging to try and make it a cut in, we even had to use silent clips from other shots to fill in the zooming parts! Even with this the picture was not long enough for the audio so in the final thin part of the audio is cut but we don't mind as we have included everything that was originally asked for from the task. If we were to redo the task or had more time we would have re filmed the shot so that nothing was cut and it was more professional looking. After completing the editing we uploaded the video to YouTube and linked it to our blog. We learnt a lot of information about filming and editing as well as time control! We will certainly take our knowledge from this project and use it wisely on the next!

Post Production.

I think that the editing of our task went really well seeing as we have never done anything like it before! It was quite easy organising the shots and cutting them down so that it all flowed well. We had a bit of trouble when editing the cut in as we had actually done a zoom. but we managed to sort it all , there is still a little bit of audio missing but overall it looks good.

Preliminary Production Video.

Health And Safety Audit.

When filming we need to be aware of the following things; slamming fingers in the door so this means extra care and no mucking around, making sure there aren't sharp and dangerous objects in the filming area, hot drinks should not be drunk around electrical equipment in case of spillages or burns and put all cases for equipment out of the way so there is no tripping. Tripod legs should be made aware of. Yellow safety warning signs could be used to prevent tripping over tripod.
We need to take extra care and concern preventing injuries, creating a good and safe working environment. All of the above could result in serious injury and should be taken seriously.

Storyboard.

Here is my groups story board showing the main shots.