Looking back at your preliminary task, what

do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it

to the full product?

D u r i n g t h e m a k i n g o f

t h e fi l m I f e e l t h a t I

h a v e g a i n e d

ex p e r i e n c e i n u s i n g

t h e e q u i p m e n t , a n d

ex t e n d e d m y

k n o w l e d g e o f t h e

p ro c e s s o f fi l m

m a k i n g …

Editing…Editing the film was not a problem for me, I’ve used Sony Vegas to do the editing, I’ve used this program before in my own time allowing me to gain knowledge of how the program works. I used that knowledge to create a final edit of my film. After spending most of the time on the editing during the process of the film, I learnt to not over edit my clips. Putting lot’s of effects and speeding up or slowing down clips isn’t necessary sometimes as it may make the film look bad. The quality of the clips are most important…

I’ve only used Sony Vegas to edit my clips which is really simple toe use, but I wish to use more advanced editing software's for effects and colour correction to expand my editing skills.

…Editing continued

Using what I have, I experimented with the effects and transitions in Sony Vegas. After doing this I learnt more about what colour corrections and transitions are suitable for the clips.

Eff ects/transitionsSound

Editing the sound wasn’t easy. I cut

out certain parts of the music and

placed it in where I think is suitable,

this wasn’t easy as some parts won’t

‘blend’ in that well. I learnt to be

more aware of the sound that we are

using for our film. The choice of

sound is important as it increases the

tension or mood of the scene.

Using the CameraJust the editing wasn’t good enough to create a perfect product. The clips that we use, need to be good enough to edit, some of the clips we used was out of focus giving our film some negative points…

For filming we used my own camera (Nikon d3100), which makes filming much easier as I know how to use this more than the cameras that the school have. However I wasn’t the cameraman. Chris knapp is in charge of the camera for our film, since the camera is mine I can explain to him how it works.

Some of our clips were ‘wobbly’, this is not a mistake. As our film is a dream sequence we thought the use of having some wobbly shots would be effective.

FocusingSome of our clips were really blurry, we had to retake a few clips but we forgot to retake one clip in which we had to get rid of that shot as the old one was to blurry and we had no time left to redo it.

After filming I learnt that focusing is one of the key elements to filming…

A bad camera focus can make us lose marks…

ContinuityContinuity is key to keeping the audience hooked to our film. Unrealistic parts will cause the audience to stop watching. Our film uses quite a few over shoulder shots, we made sure not to cross the line during the filming of these clips.

I think our films continuity is quite successful as we didn’t cross the line or have any faults of our actors costumes.

Our group gained more thought on continuity after filming, we would focus on continuity for each shot we take.

Mise En SceneMe and my group thought about Mise En Scene carefully.

LocationWe chose to shoot our film in a woods, We chose this location because our film is set

in the 1750’s. Most areas are covered with modern buildings and roads, shooting in

the woods eliminates the view of these modern things. Our knowledge of the

scenery has progressed after filming, we would constantly think of what is being

shown and what isn't.

CostumeThe costume was difficult to decide on. We needed the costumes to have an old

look. Again we learnt to know what clothing should be shown and what shouldn’t…

LightingWe didn’t want to use any artificial lighting for our film as we thought it was unnecessary and we wanted to keep the film looking natural. After filming we learnt that patience is key when using natural lighting because it can differ everyday.