Today Matt and I showed Sonia and Jack what we had done and they critiqued it. We carried on editing and found that there was some creative difference between four people. But we came to a middle ground and edited more. We also found that some of the establishing shots of Jack and Matt after Sarah and Luke have folded had a leg of the light stand in the corner of the picture. This was not picked up when filming as a dark picture n a dark room couldn’t pick it up. This made us remember to keep an eye on framing each time we shot.
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Tuesday 26th January 2010
Today we got hold of the hand held recording device and learnt how to use it (a simple mp3 recording style with a button to record and a button to stop. It looked like a taser in which you spoke into the spikes). It took a while to get used to saying the lines in a narration type way. In the end we got a few takes and chose the best one. Returned the recording device and started to split the narration. We split it in order to control the speed to lines were said as well as match them to the pictures we wanted.
We split them in these places (signified by ‘//’)
“Flush. // Straight. // Full House. // Pair…// These have been running through my head for the past forty eight hours. // I knew the possibility of getting them; // 500/1, // 250/1, // 700/1… // For me… // I got nothing.”
This allowed us to have more freedom with what we did with the narration. We started placing these sound clips and carried on editing.
Monday 25th January 2010
With Jack and Sonia away on a school trip, Matt and I were left to start editing. We managed to upload the footage we had already shot onto iMovie, and sort through the footage (separating what was good and what was bad/outtakes, and labelling the different clips so it was easier to find them. This was a technique suggested in the editing master class. We knew we wanted a narration over the top of the beginning of the clip and therefore tried to record it. We originally wanted to use the recording studio in music, but it was fully booked due to Music coursework taking place. We then arranged with the head of music to use a hand held recording device (something neither Matt nor I knew existed) the following day. We went back to editing and sorting through the material.
Friday 22nd January 2010
Editing. We attempted to upload the footage we had shot onto the Macs to start editing. However, due to us using a camera other than the hand held ones hired out by the media department, we had trouble. We first tried to upload using one of the hand helds, but discovered that it wouldn’t capture onto Final Cut Pro (the software we wanted to use to edit our film due to it having more effects and abilities than iMovie). We then had to get the original camera in to see if the footage would capture onto the software with that camera. However, the footage wouldn’t capture either. It came down to finding out that Final Cut Pro hadn't been set up on the machine properly therefore we would have to use iMovie. This lead to us having to change some of the editing ideas we had including some ‘ghosting’/layering techniques in the Angel and Devil scene learnt in the editing master class.
Friday, 19 February 2010
Thursday 21st January 2010
During the lesson today (period 2) we filmed the card tricks we play to use in the Title sequence. We filmed it in the joining doors between Drama and Music. Although the area didn’t have a black background, we were able to make the room dark enough to light it properly, and then framed the shots to get as little of the white walls in as possible. We did have trouble controlling the extraneous sound levels as we were just outside a working Music studio, however we were able to block out most of the noise. We did get interrupted many times with people walking through the doors (a side effect of our location), but it did not disturb the filming process enough for us not to get the shots we want.
After school, we were filming in the drama studio with the full cast. A main problem was, with a larger cast of friends, everyone wanted to talk, thus we took a long time. The character Leo was also cut as the actor playing him was, at the last minute, unfortunately not available to film. As Leo is a minor character we were able to cut him with minimum disruption. If fact, during filming we found that this was for the best as we could only fit five people comfortably around the table we used (compared to the six that there would have been). As we had to film everyone, the process of lighting and shooting everything took even longer than just with Matt and Jack. However, everything went according to plan. We did film a tracking shot around the table, which proved challenging as we still had to light the shots and thus had the cameraman’s shadow falling across the table at points. We had to film this shot in steady cam style as we could not find a dolly or a trolley to make a make shift tracking system. Running around the table also proved to be dizzying and disorientating and probably created a wobbly shot.
Wednesday 20th January 2010
Today we filmed the dialogue between Dave and Gary. It was the first time we used the specialist equipment so was a big learning curve. We had to think about the lighting, the audio boom, the camera angles as well as the actors performance. We only had Sonia, Jack, Matt and I there instead of the whole cast because we planned to use close ups or tighter therefore did not need the others in shot. We learnt that moving the lights and equipment to get a good shot took a long time therefore it took a long time to film the shots we need.
We used a shot list to help us make sure we got everything we needed;
- Extreme close up of Dave’s eyes
- Pained shot of Dave (at different Dutch tilt levels)
- Gary close up – ‘trouble? Wanna back out?’
- Close up Dave – ‘Course not’
- Establishing wide shot of Gary, Dave and Dealer at the table
- Dave pushing the chips into play
During filming we did find that the line ‘Course not’ did not work as it seemed like a more immediate response, whereas we wanted a pause for thought from Dave. Therefore, we decided to change the line to ‘No way’.
Monday, 8 February 2010
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