Prelim Task - Somme Survivor

This is my first film - Somme Survivor

1) Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you? 


To film this task we were put into groups and my group was Me, Ben and Will. We were then given a genre and the genre we received documentary we were quite happy with this genre because we had a lot of ideas, which we could film about. We discussed what to film but after a long discussion we decided to film about the War. We chose this because of a recent television series Our World War this series gave us a lot of inspiration because they filmed in much the same way as we wanted to. 


2) How did you plan your sequence? What processes did you use? What theories did you try to take in to account?

To plan this sequence we covered a long process of storyboarding in order to get all shots in the correct places enabling the film to be filmed quickly and correctly meaning we did not have to re film many shots. We used post it notes to write out the story board saving us having to redo page after page of storyboard instead we could just move the post its around. We tried to keep an enigma code 


3) What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?


4) What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?


5) How successful was your sequence? Please identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently? What did others say about your production?



6) What have you learnt from completing this task? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework, do you think? 

Institution Task

Juno - Final edit

Juno - Final edit

For this task we were editing and filming our own footage which enabled us to become more farmillar with the cameras. By filming our own shots we realised the time it takes to film just one shot to try and get it as near to perfect as we could.

This was our first atttempt at creating our own storyboards by doing this we learnt how closely we need to watch in order to pick out the specific transitions and camera shots in oder to match the origional juno sequence.

In the group we had a slight weakness in keepig the camera still throuhout all of the shots because of this we learnt that where possible we should try and use a tripod to steady the shot. we also found weaknesses in our organisation during the filming as we ended up running around to find props insted of having them ready before we went to film.

We filmed all of the footage that we needed because we took multiple shots to ensure we filmed at least one good piece of footage for every scene which enabled us to pick and choose which shot we want for our final production.

From this task I learnt a lot about premiere because I could further adapt as t what effects are avalible. rom editing our own foootage I learnt that it is a lot better to film sots too long rather than too short, however by filming shots that are too short I learnt how to make the footage longer by slowing it down. By using the camera I learnt how to take a tracking shot and that it is very diffficult to keep the camera steady during this shot.

My Juno task is close to the origional however some of my shots are too short which spoils the match between the two. Some of my editing also didnt match up because the transitios from the origional were done using animation so we couldnt replicate this so we had to find an alternative method of using the transitions avalible on premiere. To improve the way the footage matched up we should have been more specific as to the way we filmed our shots.