Editing and filming evaluation (AS Media)

The filming of the preliminary exercise went as planned, we had booked the room and we all met at the specified time with the proper equipment and props that we needed for filming the preliminary exercises, aside from not being able to track down a clock for use in the scene, we rectified this by filming a few seconds of a clock after the exercise which we mixed in with the rest of the footage during the editing. We also failed to obtain a poster of anti bullying content for use in the exercise hence why we had to use a black and white print out of one instead of one in full colour.

When we started to capture the shots that we needed we realised that the layout of the room was going to make it rather more difficult to get the shots that we had planned to get, we still managed to achieve the shots by moving the desk forward a small amount and placing the camera behind it, which doesn't not come across as a problem in the final product.

We also had an issue with our actor who kept swinging on his chair without meaning to which resulted in us having to shoot a few shots a few more times than we thought, but we managed to get the shots we needed in the end.
We also realised that when we filmed our actor entering the room from outside that her bag was already inside the room which she picked up at the end of the sequence when she attempted to leave, this is quite a big error in our continuity but not worthy of a re shoot of the whole sequence, it is just something that we will remember and take the experience to our main exercise.

Unfortunately due to absence I was not able to be a part of the final editing process which was a shame because that was the initial role I was assigned to do and one I very much enjoy doing, this meant that the other members of the group had to edit the final product, this gave them the opportunity to do something that they initially weren’t assigned as a role which gives for a good learning experience considering I have a decent amount of previous editing experience and the rest of the group may not have had the chance to edit much film in the past, this is good experience that the whole group can bring forward to the main exercise.

First skills audit G321 foundation production

We have now finished all of our preliminary paperwork and research for our short film sequence and are now ready to start filming.

The pre production process went very well without any major problems occurring , we all worked well and efficiently together to ensure that we stuck to our production schedule as well as possible, overall I was more than happy with how the preliminary paperwork came together.

Ihave worked in groups on similar tasks before so there were aspects of the exercise that I hadn’t had the chance to experience before, for example on this piece of work I had the chance to draw up the diagrams of our locations for filming which is something I enjoyed doing very much.

The genre of our short sequence we decided was going to be a drama set in a school/college setting purely on the basis that setting the scene in a school considering we would most likely be filming in college would help us achieve a much more realistic piece of film, for example one of my initial ideas for the short sequence was to create a crime drama and possibly film in the college canteen (masquerading as a cafe/restaurant) I then came to realise that this would most likely give for an unrealistic final product because the canteen doesn't resemble a normal cafe it is clearly either a college or place of work, and this is when I started to think more towards just setting the scene in a school.

With regards to the research on the genre and target audience for our short film I looked mainly at dramas and soap operas, for example i looked mainly at BBCs Waterloo Road and the children’s drama Grange Hill, the soap I looked at was Hollyoaks, these programmes would be the style that we would try to emulate the most because they have the same target audience as planned for our product which is 15 to 17 year olds, but waterloo roads content also seeks to appeal to an older audience because you are also shown the story from the teachers perspective so you get both sides of the story in effect.

I am fairly confident that filming will go ahead without any major issues occurring with regards to our own technical abilities at least, I feel that the pre production work went as well as can be expected so we are as prepared as we can be for the filming.