Short Film- Preliminary Excercise

The first task we did when starting media in september was to create a short film in groups of three, the film had to include 12 to 15 shots and a few pieces of dialogue. We strted by creating a storyboard so taht we knew what we were going to do. It was the first time taht any of us had used a camera for filming so before we started we had a quick playa round with the camera to get used to how it works and how we would go about creating the correct shots, i found that a panning shot was the hardest to achieve because you had to have a very steady hand and move at a constant speed. After filming we plugged the camera into a Mac PC to begin editing, we had alot of difficulties with this as we had erased some key shots because of rewinding the tape and watching some clips, although this did take alot away from our work i am glad we found this earlier on so that we can learn from our mistakes and progress furthur next time we are doing any sort of filming. I will post the video onto my blog as soon as it has been converted into the correct format by the ICT department.