Preliminary Task

This video is the link to our Preliminary Task. 
Unfortunately, my partner didn't allow me to upload it on here, sorry to cause any inconvenience.

https://youtu.be/n7oT8sTKwD4

Pre-Production:

To keep organised and plan the task properly I thought to make a storyboard and also planning on where to film this clip.


This is the storyboard that I have drew/made for the Preliminary Task:





This is the planning which I've done for the props/costume and locations:

These 2 are the actors in the clip:

Cameraman:





















Production:
As I had made these plans and a storyboard on how my partner and I going are going to film this clip, it made it very easy for me to understand what we had to do. Where as on the other hand, my partner was distracted by other classmates so did not participate in this planning. At first I wanted her thoughts and ideas as this task for set for the pair of us and not only me. However, I couldn't persuade her enough to receive her attention which led me into doing all of the work. This caused a problem on the day of filming. As my partner had no idea with what she had to do I had to explain this whole process which wasted a lot of time meaning we couldn't filmed on the day we had to. This meant I had to disappoint the actor who had brought in his props to film as he was paying attention and also, this disappointed me as I had wasted my time bringing in my props and organising all of the SD cards, the camera setting and the tripod's length. To avoid this un-necessary tragedy to occur again, I had sent all of the planning I had done via Facebook Messenger. (29/10/14)
Today, we are going to film for the first time which I am very excited for as this is the first practical lesson. I gave the storyboard to my partner who is the cameraman so she knows which part to film when. I gave her an advice which was to count to 5 after pressing the record button so we are not missing any words or action and that it wouldn't matter as we can just edit the 5 seconds by cutting it. However, she failed to follow this advice so some of out clips were not even nor correct. This meant we had to film the scenes she had filmed incorrectly. Again, this wasted more time and was annoying as other classmates are already editing their clip. The whole process of filming took us 6 hours and finally have finished. In tomorrow's lesson, I am planning to edit the clips and try to finish when everyone else has. (31/10/15)

Post-Production:
Today is the first time to edit our footages that were filmed by my partner, Megan. We went through the footages and imported into a film editing/making software called "Movie Maker" by Microsoft Windows. This was my partner's first time to edit any kind of footage so she had no idea what a certain editing technique meant such as fading. Sooner she got bored and asked me to finish the rest of the editing. As I have some experiences in editing from my GCSE, I thought it would be quicker if i just finish it off so I did. However some of the ideas of using a "Match-On-Action" shots and were made by her. 
The editing I used were the music in the background which is non-diegetic sound.
Also I have used some simple cutting.
The last editing I have done is at the end when it cuts to a colour with a text "To be continued..."
(01/11/15)

Sound track

Finding nemo

In class we were put in groups of 5 and was given a script from the film Finding Nemo. We filmed it outside by the road which wasn’t the best idea because the sound of the engine from the cars running and the wind blocked out all of the volume of our voices and can hardly hear us. Also when we tried to edit the film, we found another sound error. We noticed the volume of the film changes depending on where the character is, the volume of our voices changed. As we filmed this with different types of shots, the close up shots would be louder (as the character would be closer to the camera and mic) than the part that was filmed in long shots, which would be quieter and the wind would cover up the mic (as the character would be further away from the camera and mic).

Overall we, as a group we found that by filming outdoors, we have to organise very well with the time of filming because of reasons such as the weather, surroundings and the location as they can have a massive effect on the film. We also found that it is actually a lot harder than we thought it would be. To avoid these errors, we thought by using an external microphone would help reducing the noise in the background and surroundings, only focusing on the characters so we can hear their conversation.