Experimenting - Sound

Maisie(left) and I(right) working cooperatively playing around with Garage Band and looking for a suitable beat to play when Abbie fiddles with the radio. (Weird, funky song to be changed to a 'popular' song which to some extent is hard to find as we cannot use real songs that everyone generally knows for copyright reasons.)

Editing

Currently in the very early stages of editing via 'Final Cut Express' - so far so good. Extremely pleased with the quality of the filming, (due to the use of a HD Camera.) Plus no group disputes have yet occurred! Slowly progressing towards our first working copy before our next group meeting on what to do next. Me and Maisie are both working really hard and putting all our free time into this project. Still a long way to go before our finished product, decisions on what clips to use (as we shot the same scene quite a lot of times for safety in allowing us to have a wider variety of different angles, levels, proximity to choose from.) have been keeping us busy! Finding Final Cut Express relatively easy to use with the help of our class teachers although occasionally we don't have a clue what we're doing and just click random buttons till we find what we want! :)

Filming

The filming of our Opening Sequence generally went really well and I'm pleased with our progress so far. I would have liked to have more time, (perhaps started slightly earlier) and it probably would have been a good idea to film at the weekend rather than mid-week, as towards the end, both director (me), camera operator (Maisie) and actors (Shauna, Freya, me) were exhausted and gradually become quite agitated. But apart from that, I enjoyed it and view it as great experience. We haven't yet discovered any faults in our clips during editing resulting in the re-shooting of that particular scene so touch wood! I expected there to be minor complications such as family being in the places we needed to film in the house, people forgetting props or equipment - however, I was proven wrong! Overall, great success.

Preliminary Sequence

TASK:

To film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down opposite another character. They converse. Should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. Last a maximum of 2 minutes.

The above clip is of my groups Preliminary Sequence demonstrating some examples of successful camera work and exploration of angles, in the preparation of filming our Opening Sequence.

I would have liked to have more time to plan this exercise and include credits. Shooting and editing took 2 hours in total.