my Prezi for the evaluation of the preliminary task.

http://prezi.com/a08eowwynca5/tiffs-preliminary-media-evaluation/

Wednesday 19th October (session 1 and 4)

We had both of these lessons to create a Prezi for the evaluation of our preliminary task. However, we had a bit of a delay this is because in  the first lesson we couldn't do anything because we couldn't access our school email addresses which we needed to create our Prezi. We went to see the technicians and they sorted them out so we were then able to create our Prezi in our next lesson.

Tuesday 18th October (session 4)

Today we watched all the preliminary tasks in the class so we could give feedback and evaluate the films. We had to evaluate if the product included at least one shot reverse shot and how effective it was,  does the product demonstrate match on action and how p the timing was and also whether it broke the 180 degree rule. We also had to evaluate the cinematography, titles, suitability and the strengths and weaknesses of the film.

Monday 17th October (after school)

Me and Brogan Adams decided to stay after college to finish editing our clip and burn to a disc ready for the class viewing on Tuesday 18th October.

Storyboard for film

This is the storyboard for our preliminary task.

Wednesday 12th October (session 4)

In this lesson we edited some more of our clips, cut out the clips that we didn’t need and we then put them all in the right order. We then had to render it all. We had to speed some of the clips up and faded some of the colours so the clips looked right together; this is because the HD camera was brighter than the other camera that was used. We then realized that we had broken the 180 degree rule because they filmed from the left-side of one character and the right-side of the other character. We then had to research how t flip this, so we weren’t breaking the rule and found that we had to use the ‘flop’ technique on Final Cut Express. We were able to the flip the clip around we saved us from having to re-film it.

Wednesday 12th October (session 1)

We continued to sort out the clips that we needed and then went on to edit and re-order them. We then had to render all the clips which took a while.

Tuesday 11th October (session 4)

Jamie Oliver came into this lesson and we had a tutorial on how to use iMovie, Final Cut Express and iDVD together. After this, we then looked at the clips that Brogan and Maisie had uploaded the lesson before and sorted out them out to what we needed and what we didn't.

Wednesday 5th October (session 1 and 4)

I was ill on this day, which meant i wasn't in college. This meant that Brogan Adams and Maisie Hesketh had to change their roles around. So Brogan and Maisie had to do all the directing and the co-ordination. We also had to change our personnel, instead of Brogan they used Laura Beswick and they used Callum Bowyer and not Mr Owen but they kept the location the same.

Tuesday 4th October (session 4)

Due to staff availability at college, we were unable to film our preliminary task so we had to re-schedule our filming to Wednesday 5th October. However, instead we had a tutorial from Jamie Oliver of how to use final cut express and how to use both of the video cameras. Once we had the tutorial, we had a little time to play around with the cameras and the programme.

Wednesday 28th September (session 4)

In this lesson we discussed more ideas for our storyboard and we made a rough copy between us then decided to each do an individual copy at home. We also discussed the plan of production, listing jobs and responsibilities, times and dates for filming and the location.

THE PLAN

Location:

 inside college (new hall)
 a teachers office (we chose to use somewhere which showed authority)
 desk and chair must be in the office


Personnel:

 Brogan Adams (subject to change)
 Mr Owen (subject to change)

Equipment:

 desk and chairs
 notebook and pen
 office equipment
 box of tissues


Roles and Responsibilities:

 camera work- Maisie Hesketh

 director- Tiffany Pickford (help from Brogan Adams and Maisie Hesketh                    

 props/costumes- Brogan Adams

 location-all

 equipment-all

 organisation- Maisie Hesketh                                   

 time management- Brogan Adams

 co-ordination- Tiffany Pickford

Dates and Times:

Tuesday 4th October session 4

Wednesday 28th September (session 1)

This lesson Me,Brogan Adams and Maisie Hesketh discussed what we were going to do for our task and create the storyboard. (this will be uploaded once completed)

Tuesday 27th September (session 4)

This lesson we started our preliminary task. We had to research the three techniques that we should include in our film. We had to find a definition of all three, find an example and find a film example.
I have already posted this on my blog, as you can see.

The three techniques are: MATCH ON ACTION.                                       
                                         SHOT/REVERSE SHOT.
                                         180 DEGREE RULE.

Definitions and examples of: match on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180 degree rule

Match on action: A match on action is when there is an action about to happen, then there is a cut and after the cut the action is in the same place as it was before the cut.
 Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHh12_JHjTg&feature=
 Film example (3mins22secs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijxwE3jm2M&feature=related


Shot-reverse-shot: A shot-reverse-shot is when you are looking at one character shown through another characters point of view. This is then reversed so the character you were looking at first shows us the other character through their point of view. This can be shown through an over the shoulder shot, or a point of view.
 Example (11secs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLkUHZ1qips
 Film example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fklPp2RSAco&feature=related


The 180 degree rule: The 180 degree rule is that the characters in the scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.
 Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mF4S6CfX8&feature=related
 Film example (38secs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnO-TidMY8g&feature=related

The preliminary task.

As our preliminary task in the AS course, we have been asked to film and edit a short sequence.  The sequence should show a character opening a door, entering the room, then walking across it. The character must then sit opposite another character and exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. The sequence should demonstrate match on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180 degree rule.