4/12/09

Today we worked with Sarah and Chris from suited and booted film company. We were introduced to our filming cameras and learnt about the different components to the camera and how they worked. We were then given a task where Sarah told us what to focus on when filming then we had free rain to shoot it how we wished. As the Camera operator in the group, I filmed three different shots of Abi and Jack outside the college. When we returned to college we playbacked the scenes that I had shot and talked through what worked well and what had gone wrong. We talked through this with Sarah and we all agreed that because of our chosen style of film, we didn't need as much camera movement as i had used

13/11/09

Today we went around Bath filming our locations as they will play a main part in our film. We came up with 8 different locations, being; Helting Close near Bath Spa, Railway Close Tunnel near the railway station, Walcot Street staircase- leading to Roman Road, Sydney Gardens riverside, The Royal Crescent, The Circus, Laura Place fountain and the new Southgate shopping centre. We decided on these 8 locations because they were the less obvious places to choose but still promoted Bath in a way which would make potential film makers want to produce their films in our city. I feel that the locations that we have chosen to shoot our film in should be successful as they show the beauty and the architecture of Bath, yet not using the most popular landmarks of the city.

6/11/09

Today I wasn't here but the class were introduced to suited and booted film company and the Bath film office. Sarah Strickland gave us our brief to work from.

We needed to make a 3 minute film advertising Bath, representing the theme gothic. They brainstormed ideas fitting the brief and came up with the idea of a lost woman searching for her love. As a group they decided for it to be a silent film with dialogue boxes and to be shot in colour but edited in black and white.

18/09/09

Today we created 3 short film clips of how we wanted to portray the weather. We had to use 3 different shots being; Close Up, Medium Shot and a Long Shot. We had to create a storyboard of our ideas incorporating the three different shots.The storyboard helped to clearly convey the narrative of what I wanted my clips to show and helped by outlining the challenges that we may face during production. After creating our storyboards we took our three design ideas and went off to capture the moving image that we had in mind. Our first shot was our Long Shot of which i feel we didn't capture the image that we had conveyed in our storyboard. I say this because I don't feel there was an actual focal point to the clip, whether it was the flowers or the birds. Our second shot of the leaves on the tree (our Close Up) lacked camera movement although, the subject of the image supplied the movement by the leaves blowing in the wind. This was my favourite shot out of the three as it felt calming to watch. Our third shot (the Medium Shot) also didn't work out as planned because in our storyboard we wanted to have the leaves blowing in the wind and in our actual clip we had a member of the crew throwing leaves in the air. However I do feel that if we h§§ad the weather that we needed then this concept would've worked well.