Peliminary Task

In todays lesson, we put our peliminary task onto a disc and put it onto youtube. Here is the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YLrsoVoxkc&feature=player_profilepage

Questionnaires

In todays lesson, I gave out some of the questionnaires that I had put together as apart of my research into the target audience of my groups film opening. First, I got onto the computer and checked the questionnaire to see if it was good enough to give out to people. Once I had done that I printed off five copies and distributed them to members of my class. I then thought, that in order to get a good variation of results, we will need more people to do the questionnaire, so I decided to print off another five copies. Out of the ten copies that I had printed off, 6 were completed by members of my class. I will give the last four out to people outside of my media class so my results can vary more. Once all the questionnaires have been done, I will use the findings in order to determine what our target audience want from our film and how we can try are best to put these things in.

Editing Peliminary Task

In this lesson we edited our peliminary task. We edited our task using iMovie on a macbook. We found that we didn't need to do that much editing because we had recorded it quite well. All we needed to add was the title and end credits.

Filming The Peliminary task

Last lesson we filmed our peliminary task. Once we were given the cameras we then went out to find an area where we could film. We decided that the best place for us to film would be the school hall because there was a lot of space and we knew that it would be free for us to use. Once we got into the hall we started thinking about the senario we were going to create for the task. We decided to use the boxes that were already in the hall and pretend that one of the people in our group were making a delivery, which would incorporate the continuity shot through the door. Then another member will instigate a conversation between the other group member as he signs for the delivery. Which incorporates the reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. After we had finished we went back up to our class and decided to edit the task on another lesson.

Preparation For Peliminary Task

In this lesson we took some time out of preparing for our film opening and began preparation for the peliminary task that we have to do. Firstly our teacher breifed us on what we had to do for the task and the shots we had to include (e.g. continuty shot, a reverse shot and the 180 degree rule). He then showed some examples of previous preliminary tasks on youtube in order for us to get an idea of what it should entail. We then went to research what these shots were, below are the links from where we got the information from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_editing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_reverse_shot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_degree_rule

Character and Location preparation

In this lesson our group began to look at the things we need to orgainse in order to start filming our film opening. Firstly we decided to develop on the plot and talk about the characters that we will have in our film opening. We felt that it would look more proffesional and realistic to incorporate adults into our opening, rather than just have people of our age. This because we felt that our film would look more proffessional and realistic than if we just used younger people in the opening. Then some members of the group went and phoned up some people they knew that they felt would be suitable to be included in our opening. We then decided to prepare for the location that we would film our opening. As I said in my previous posts, our group had originally decided that St Giles Church would be a good location to film some of the scenes in the opening so we decided to phone St Giles church to see if it would be possible to first perform a risk assesment of the grounds in order to identify the risks involved in filming that area. Because no one was there to answer the phone, we left a message with the church leaving my details in case they phoned back.