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Tuesday, 16 March 2010

James C - Possible Sound Effects

Here are some of the sound effects that we could use when we come to make our final piece. They could be used in conjunction with continuity editing to heighten the sense of verisimilitude within the opening:

Letter coming through letter box:
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=32362

Grandfather Clock:
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=32937

Ambient Noise:
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=22335

White Noise:
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=28024

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Group - Evaluation of shoot 2

Our second shoot was on Friday 5th, and we went to James' house to get some scenes of our other character. We left school early so that we could make the best use of the daylight that we needed, and started filming at about 1:30.

The shoot went very well, and we managed to get the majority of the shots that we needed to get. We did however encounter some difficulties during the shoot, one of these was that there was always the usual household 'clutter' in the background of our shots. These unnecessary objects in the background were ruining our rule of thirds, and so we removed any thing that we did not feel was required in the shot.

Another problem that we found was that the layout of the furniture in the house was not how we needed it. This meant that we had to carefully move some of the objects (lights and tables for example) so that the location would lend its self to our shoot better.

I think that we had learnt from our previous shoot, because we did not have so many problems about were to place the tripod, or about working in confined spaces. We had also learnt about how light the room needs to be in order to get the best shots possible, and this came in very handy during the shoot.

I think that other than these problems all went very well on the day, however i think that we will need to go back to this location to get the final shots, and redo any ones that are not quite right.

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Group - Evaluation of the Shoot 1

We went on our first shoot on wednesday 3rd march to Jamies house.

Overall the shoot went well and we managed to get the shots that we initially need and have left enough time to shoot any extra shots needed.

Some problems we found whilst shooting is continuity and having to be constantly aware of the positioning of the shot and props making sure the continuity was not obscure. Furthermore we had to make sure that there was nothing in the back ground that would be out of place for our story.

We also found that working in a confined space was sometimes tricky especially with the tripod but managed to overcome these with some careful manouvering.

I think that we have learned from this experience shooting indoors and will be able to to take with us to our next shoot.