When we were starting our film, Hannah and I had a discussion of what our production name and our logo should be. It was me that suggested "Palendrome Productions" when it had come up in conversation earlier that day when I told Hannah that her name was a palendrome. After brainstorming some ideas for a coupkle of minutes we also decided on the logo of 2 "P's" with the second one backwards in reference to the title.
I created the two P's that you can see on the top of our blog on Photoshop using my brothers Mac and a tutorial on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pOkaC4eHsE) The rest of the text was simply laid out using the text tool. This created a JPEG image file. Blogger gives you the option to upload JPEG images as headers, so I clicked this link, uploaded the file and it placed the image for me and drew a border round it.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
What we did today!
Well actually I'm first going to tell you what we did yesterday first. Yesterday, we started off the lesson by creating the title's music that occurs at the start of the film. ( see link below!! ) We did this on Garageband on the Mac's. I found this program very useful and Hannah and I had a lot of different types of music to choose from. In the end we chose an energetic, high beat piece that we had created ourselves as we found this matched the mood and the genre of the film. We also decided to go in at lunch as we had run out of time in the lesson to finally tidy up all of the editing and add in some subtitle's to the conversation scene in our film.
However today, as a class, we decided which 5 areas we would be analysing our films on. After much debate, we decided on Continuity and Editing, Fullfilling the Brief, Camerawork, Mise-en-Scene and Sound. We then watched each other films and gave each film either a "poor", a "good" or an "excellent" for each area. Here are the results we got from each group:
Ciaran,Milly and Sophie:
Camerawork: Excellent
Fullfilling Brief: Excellent
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Harry and Chris:
Camerawork: Excellent
Fullfilling Brief: Excellent
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Jake, Daniel and Emma:
Camerawork: Good
Fullfilling Brief: Good
Continuity: Good
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Rachel, Roisin, Gemma and Jade:
Camerawork: Good
Fullfilling Brief: Excellent
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Matt and Will
Camerawork: Good
Fullfilling Brief: Good
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Looking over this feedback, it seemed that most of the groups did like our film. The one area that seemed to be marked the lowest was Sound. This is most probably because the only sound in our film is the music at the start. Though we used subtitles to go over the conversation scene, this seemed to not appeal to most of the groups and this is maybe something we should think about when we do our proper task.
However today, as a class, we decided which 5 areas we would be analysing our films on. After much debate, we decided on Continuity and Editing, Fullfilling the Brief, Camerawork, Mise-en-Scene and Sound. We then watched each other films and gave each film either a "poor", a "good" or an "excellent" for each area. Here are the results we got from each group:
Ciaran,Milly and Sophie:
Camerawork: Excellent
Fullfilling Brief: Excellent
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Harry and Chris:
Camerawork: Excellent
Fullfilling Brief: Excellent
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Jake, Daniel and Emma:
Camerawork: Good
Fullfilling Brief: Good
Continuity: Good
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Rachel, Roisin, Gemma and Jade:
Camerawork: Good
Fullfilling Brief: Excellent
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Matt and Will
Camerawork: Good
Fullfilling Brief: Good
Continuity: Excellent
Mise-en-Scene: Good
Sound: Good
Looking over this feedback, it seemed that most of the groups did like our film. The one area that seemed to be marked the lowest was Sound. This is most probably because the only sound in our film is the music at the start. Though we used subtitles to go over the conversation scene, this seemed to not appeal to most of the groups and this is maybe something we should think about when we do our proper task.
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
About our film.
I've realised we havent actually explained what our film is about or the reasons/motivations behind it, so here's a brief explanation.
Its a preliminary task for our AS work in media. The aim is to create fluid continuity throughout, and show development and understanding of the task. We were asked to create a film showing a person opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down and having a conversation with somebody else. It should also include 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot.
The short film we have created is very simply about a woman delivering an envelope to a man. The circumstances behind it are very much ambiguous so every audience member will think somthing different of it, based on thier own representations.
The ideas we first came up with were based around more of an action film but it changed as we filmed, and found flaws and difficulties in shots and settings. The silence and the black and white idea came about when we did our pre-preliminary task. We found it looked smarter and made the whole piece something a little different.
I hope this clarifies things and we both hope you like the final product.
Its a preliminary task for our AS work in media. The aim is to create fluid continuity throughout, and show development and understanding of the task. We were asked to create a film showing a person opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down and having a conversation with somebody else. It should also include 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot.
The short film we have created is very simply about a woman delivering an envelope to a man. The circumstances behind it are very much ambiguous so every audience member will think somthing different of it, based on thier own representations.
The ideas we first came up with were based around more of an action film but it changed as we filmed, and found flaws and difficulties in shots and settings. The silence and the black and white idea came about when we did our pre-preliminary task. We found it looked smarter and made the whole piece something a little different.
I hope this clarifies things and we both hope you like the final product.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
We'd appreciate your input.
We've been working on our editing today and the film is coming along well, soon to be posted; if you have any comments or questions about the film please dont hesitate to write. Music is to be hopefully be completed tomorrow
Our First Post!
We know this is quite a late first post yet me and Hannah had difficulties getting into our blog after making it,(Password issues!). Well, we finished the main bulk of our filming last week which me and Hannah both thought went rather well. We did have a hard time getting a "Dolly" to do some moving shots in our film (especially getting one that worked properly) yet in the end we were quite pleased with the results.
At the end of the week, on Wednesday's and Thursday's lesson I was without Hannah as she had other commitments with the American exchange program she is a part of. I therefore spent my time alone uploading our footage onto the Mac's at school and started to edit our footage. I managed to roughly edit all of the footage we chose to go in our film on the first lesson on Wednesday and on Thursday I managed to make a Palendrome Productuions Logo and the Productions film clip with help of Davide Hodgeson-Lorente with whom we did our practise Preliminary task. he also is an Actor in the end section of our film.
In Today's lesson however, Hannah was back and we spent most of the lesson making sure she liked all of the editing I had done in the previous lessons and that she approved of the companies logo that Davide and I had created. She was in the end, very posotive and approved with the logo. Hannah then spent the rest of the lesson experimenting on Garageband in the hope of creating a piece of music that we could include in our film while I tried to tidy up our storyboards which you can see at the the top of the blog.
We now have tomorrow's lesson to finish our film and then on Thursday we will present it to the class!
Ruaraidh
At the end of the week, on Wednesday's and Thursday's lesson I was without Hannah as she had other commitments with the American exchange program she is a part of. I therefore spent my time alone uploading our footage onto the Mac's at school and started to edit our footage. I managed to roughly edit all of the footage we chose to go in our film on the first lesson on Wednesday and on Thursday I managed to make a Palendrome Productuions Logo and the Productions film clip with help of Davide Hodgeson-Lorente with whom we did our practise Preliminary task. he also is an Actor in the end section of our film.
In Today's lesson however, Hannah was back and we spent most of the lesson making sure she liked all of the editing I had done in the previous lessons and that she approved of the companies logo that Davide and I had created. She was in the end, very posotive and approved with the logo. Hannah then spent the rest of the lesson experimenting on Garageband in the hope of creating a piece of music that we could include in our film while I tried to tidy up our storyboards which you can see at the the top of the blog.
We now have tomorrow's lesson to finish our film and then on Thursday we will present it to the class!
Ruaraidh
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