Potential iDent

I wanted to use something simple but affective and i think i have found it, i will go on to get feedback on the ident from my classmates and if the feedback is positive i will keep it, if not i shall make some changes, however i plan to stick to the idea.

Peer Assessment of Draft version

We had a lesson were classmates got to give feedback on eachothers magazine/film production. From the feedback given by my classmates i believe i recieved a mid/low level 3 which i am reasonaly pleased with, however i am aiming for a 4. My classmates notified me that they liked my idea and the shots i have put together and that it has a lot of potential, so i was happy with that. I still need to add opening credits into the film opening and i also need to introduce some soundtrack/music to go in the film. I havent given any thought about a title for my film yet and will do over the next 24 hours. I have madea draft piece of music, however i wont use it on my piece because i know i can do better. Over the next 2 weeks i will be staying after school to do editing, creating music and improving my film opening.

First Draft Media

That was my First draft media, i have already filmed more and i have more to edit and to add onto my project. I am pleased with how it is going editing wise, however filming has been a little issue because the car i used in my production was infact broken into whilst filming so that took time to fix and look normal again, and also some of the actors have been busy and not been able to be filmed. I am learning a lot through this process.

'On location'

1. This is where i would shoot the scene where the character in the scene opens the boot of a car with a body and a spade in and he picks up the spade and flings it over his shoulder, then i will freeze frame the picture of a close up of the characters face including the spade in the picture.
I choose this location because its small, and the lighting is perfect for the scene. i will shoot the scene in the dark, but the parking lot lights will add the gloomy look because only some of the lights work so it will make the scene look really good. fig 1.

2. I thought i should add picture of the car into this location post because this car fits into location 1. (see fig 1.) I choose to use one of the characters Black Clio because i believe that the black/darkness interacts well with the story plot/scene. I would of liked a black Land Rover but i could not find one i can use so i decided to use a black car i could get hold off. fig 2.

3. This is the inside location of the office. i will have to work hard to transfer this room into a gangster office set but it is do able. i love this location becuse as you can see from the picture the lighting it perfect to make it dark and gloomy/smokey. I believe i can make this scene look really good.
This location is actually my brothers flat where i am doing most of my filming. fig 3.

4. This is a shot of outside of my brothers flat (office and parking lot scene) i got a shot of this location because i may use a camera angle from across the road of a view of a character entering of leaving the 'office'. fig 4.

Editing + Music

Last lesson we were told to edit our scenes from the 'practical practice No.2'. We had encounted problems with the editing as told in previous blog, i managed to fixthe problem when i went to the Mac room, i then edited the clips and added Text (Title + Credits). We were then told to add music into the clips but were told we cannot use copyrighted music for the obvious reason that its copyright protected, so we went onto 'Garage Band' to create our own music. I found Garage band very limited but it was easy to work and with enough time and effort im sure i could produce something i would like.

Because we filmed our scenes over two days, there was a obvious change of clothing, so for future reference either try film all in one day (short films) or Remember what items of clothing you were wearing to then bring in next time.

I was happy with the final filming piece, however we still need to add our final garage band product to the short film.

Practical Practice No.2

My second practical practice, i worked with Jack kemp, Ben davies and Sam maddison. We was asked to film a conversation using a variety of shots but including over shoulder shots. However my group always like to go the little further and did a chase around school to then lead to a conversation. I thought this pracitcal practice went better than the first one. In the editing lesson we had camera problems and still had to shoot some more shots so we are behind on the editing, so we could not all edit together. Luke, jack and sam did some editing while in a 'study' but apparently have messed up the audio, so tomorrow i will go to the Mac room and try importing/sorting it out.

1st Practical practice

For my first practical practice, i worked along with (Ben davies, Jack kemp and Luke rimmer), i feel the first time of shooting went reasonably well. We filmed different shots of a football and called it 'The Ball job' (coming soon), in our 2nd practical lesson we got the opportunity to edit our shot's, i feel if we had put more time and effort into the editing we could of learnt more and enjoyed it more, in saying all that it was our first try so we as a team was reasonably happy. We used iMovie and i found it quite difficult, infact i found working on a Mac overall quite difficult, at home i use a program called 'Sony Vegas movie studio 9.0' and have gotten fimilar with it, in future i will ask the teacher if i can edit my work on that, hopefully i will be allowed.

What i would do different? i would try put my view across the next team i work with, im not bragging but i like to aim to do the best always, and putting my view across can't hurt.

my current state of mind about media is that i enjoy Practical a lot more than Theory, i find theory to be very very confusing.