Production Meeting: Synopsis & Planning

In our second production meeting, we began to produce ideas on what our film was actually going to be about. We began to write possible synopsis ideas using Pages on a Mac. Te following screenshot shows our first synopsis idea. Matthew also produced this video to create a visual version of ideas that we had come up with in this synopsis. Fellow classmates puts comments...

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Pre-Production: Working With Focus

Focus is something that we wanted to experiment with and use in our short film product. Focus can be used to create a depth of field and point of focus. We all decided to practice the technique. Matt and Katie filmed some footage exploring this camera visual technique and I created a video that includes notes and possible uses for this technique. Here is...

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Research: Camera Angles & Distances

We didn't want to walk into our project completely blind on how to choreograph and set our short film, so we looked back on some research that Katie had created that describes the different uses and advantages of different camera shot styles. She uploaded this research presentation to SlideShare. Camera angles from KatieeBeth...

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Assembling Equipment

In order to even attempt to film or create any sort of  movie image product, you need to have certain pieces of equipment and a knowledge of how to use them. These range from power sources to suitable lighting to sound equipment and more. I created a basic Powerpoint Presentation to show any equipment that is essential (or optional in some cases) to filming. This was...

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Project Practice: Creating A Scene

As a class, we were all assigned different roles and were set the challenge of creating a piece of footage that we would all later, in our groups, edit and render to post as a short film scene. Although I was not assigned an official role, I decided to personally focus on and take notes on continuity and how the actors were set out, which would be called choreography on...

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Production Meeting: Starting Off!

Today in Media Studies (4th October 2012), we began to take action on our projects by choosing our team mates/groups of which we would work with through this project. I am in a group with Matt Martyn and Katie Jones. Our first meeting consisted of thinking of a production company name for ourselves and discussing the possible future ideas we could use for our short film of the social realism genre. I created a presentation on Prezi to present a summary of the meeting we had. Please view in full screen in order to see details in the...

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