In today's lesson, my group finished our preliminary film and we all agreed that our second practice was much more successful than the first one. We included all the shots that were asked for in the brief that we were given.
I have learnt several things between my first and second practice films. One is to keep to the 180 degree rule so that the scene looks realistic and consistant. Another thing is to use a match cut - this is especially useful when trying to draw the audience's attention to a particular object. I also learnt that if you plan each shot carefully your less likely to go wrong and you will stick to the deadline that you were given. However, I'm aware that sometimes due to uncontrollable factors, like the weather, filiming could also be delayed so therefore back-up altenatives need to bee considered.
We followed the advice of one of our teachers who said that when we are filming a shot, for example when one of the characters walk in and switch off the light, because we wanted a close-up, we had to film him walking in and doing the same process twice. One was from far and one was up close. This made everything look continous.
One member of my group went back to the editing room at lunch time to put the shots together and done a really good job on it. We were all surprised by how well he had edited it and this gave us time to add sound to the film. There were so many to choose from and because we didn't realise this, we ended up using one beat throughout, but i think it gave the film a monotomous feel to it.
As our film is only a few minutes long, we obviously couldnt resemble a full-length film identically. However, we used several aspects to create tension in the film. We had a character looking confident and quite smug and the other laid-back and reserved. The first character who was cocky, thought he was getting the better end of the deal but was fatally wrong. In the meantime, the other character who was quiet actually ended up having the last laugh. I liked the twist at the end as, hopefully, no one saw it coming and if you look at the scene again, you will notice the remote is always on the table.
During filiming there was a bit more dialogue but during editing, it was evident that the more that dialogue was used the less the tension was on sceen - less dialogue = more tension.
Overall I was happy about the film and it's made the whole group confident in making our thriller.
I have learnt several things between my first and second practice films. One is to keep to the 180 degree rule so that the scene looks realistic and consistant. Another thing is to use a match cut - this is especially useful when trying to draw the audience's attention to a particular object. I also learnt that if you plan each shot carefully your less likely to go wrong and you will stick to the deadline that you were given. However, I'm aware that sometimes due to uncontrollable factors, like the weather, filiming could also be delayed so therefore back-up altenatives need to bee considered.
We followed the advice of one of our teachers who said that when we are filming a shot, for example when one of the characters walk in and switch off the light, because we wanted a close-up, we had to film him walking in and doing the same process twice. One was from far and one was up close. This made everything look continous.
One member of my group went back to the editing room at lunch time to put the shots together and done a really good job on it. We were all surprised by how well he had edited it and this gave us time to add sound to the film. There were so many to choose from and because we didn't realise this, we ended up using one beat throughout, but i think it gave the film a monotomous feel to it.
As our film is only a few minutes long, we obviously couldnt resemble a full-length film identically. However, we used several aspects to create tension in the film. We had a character looking confident and quite smug and the other laid-back and reserved. The first character who was cocky, thought he was getting the better end of the deal but was fatally wrong. In the meantime, the other character who was quiet actually ended up having the last laugh. I liked the twist at the end as, hopefully, no one saw it coming and if you look at the scene again, you will notice the remote is always on the table.
During filiming there was a bit more dialogue but during editing, it was evident that the more that dialogue was used the less the tension was on sceen - less dialogue = more tension.
Overall I was happy about the film and it's made the whole group confident in making our thriller.
No comments:
Post a Comment