12th - 13th November

In todays lesson, we uploaded all our clips from the HD video camera to the  iMac upstairs in the editing suite. My group and i realised that there are a few flaws present in the clips that we filmed on Saturday that just went (10th november). With the help of the review from my Media studies teacher, we established that there were too many long shots and medium shots. For example the first clip we filmed while the main character is walking excitedly with his Olympic Ticket, there are two trees in the way in the middle of the screen which gives the audience the impression that theres some emphasis to those trees when all in fact theres no importance in the trees being there at all, its just that the road was curved and we couldn't film the scene without getting the trees in the way as it is, without stepping out on to the busy road and putting our lives at risk.

Also, with the feedback we recieved, we were told to use more close up shots of the main characters behaviour in order to add to the comdey aspect of our film. The fact that in all main comedies have various close up shots of their facial expression while they are doing something mischievous for example in Mr Bean there are countless close up shots that empaphises this.

 



 

We also discussed that we need to use different angles to discuss different perspectives of the character. This is so that the audience can understand who and what the character is about. Also, if we was to continue filming in the current way we are filming now then it would be difficult for the audience to understand what is even happening within the short film, so have a variety of angles would mean that it would make it easier for the audience to understand and relate back to the comedy aspect that is taking place within the short film. While filming on Saturday, we also realised that there was a few holes in our previous planning.

 

As we met up on Saturday we made ways to Pudding Mill Lane in order to film the very last scene which will be using for our credits of the Olympic sight however as we arrived there we soon discovered that the long pathway in which people would take to get a view of the Olympic Stadium was now closed for renovation; this was a major let down for us because we wasted valuable time making our journey there and to end up finding out that we could not get access to this place. So in todays lesson we decided that we would need to change this scene as it would be difficult for us to do it. We decided to use another scene instead which we could use for our very last scene of the credits rolling.

 

Also, we established another issue of the scene with the taxi driver as our driver backed out last minute. This left us in a bit of a pickle as we were thinking about what to do for a while but we could not come up with another 'plan B' driver so we decided to change this scene and get the main character to use some sort of 'Barclays bike' in order to keep simplicity. We decided to keep the previous pre production doccuments intact as we could use this for effective evaluation.