Summary of Film Idea

I am in a group with George Blackwell and Lawrence Kingdon, the idea that we have come up with is a sportsman gets an injury of some sort and is then forced to relearn everything over again, the opening will be of him and how he got injured, and will be with him on his road to recovery.

The film will have a happy-ish ending as the oppening set it up as things cannot possibly get worse for the main person.

Production Processes

Pre-Production:

• Storyboard
• Script
• Idea
• Shot List
• Pitch
• Synopsis
• Production Schedule
• Location

Production:

• Crew
• Shooting
• Lighting
• Camera
• Tape Logging
• Location
• Sound
• Capturing

Post-Production:

• Editing
• Special Effects
• Mastering
• Music
• Titles
• Sound
• Capturing

Preliminary Exercise

This is the Preliminary Exercise that i completed with Paige Weir, Millie Hicks and Rob Kenny, i feel that we worked well together and completed the task to the best of our ability, we decided between us who would do what, i was one of the people that was being filmed, once all of the filming was done we worked together to get the editing done, i feel we did all of this well.

When it came to the filming we ensured that the shots were steady, in focus and that they followed the 180 degree rule, along with the rule of thirds. We also ensured that the eye line was correct to make it clear where the people are situated. When it came to editing we realised that we had a jump cut, we fixed it by getting an off cut and adding it in, if we had more time we would simply film another shot.

The pace of the video was good as it wasn't too fast or too slow, and we successfully used shot reverse shot in the conversation between me a Millie, along with shot reverse shot we used match on action.

The overall sound of the exercise was OK but could be better as it isn't very clear and at points it is quiet, making it hard to hear the conversation.

The location of the exercise was chose as we felt it needed a corporate feel as i was being fired for work, the lighting of the exercise was high-key which made it look natural.

Summary of Key Points

We watched documentary called "Watching: Beginnings". With many directors talking about what the start of a film should be like.

Ken Loach-"The most precious moment of the whole film"

Danny Boyle-"An obligation to announce as much ambition as possible"

John Schlesignger-"A good sharp shock"

J.J.Beneix-"Make them wait"-"don't give the instant gratification"

Le Conte-"Setting the tone"

Peter Bogdanovic-"get the audience on your wavelength"

David Fincher 'Se7en'-"title sequence is prefiguring the events in the film: titles become part of the story"

Assessment notes

Millie, Page, Robert, Ryan

Good clean cuts
Well framed
Good use of timing between the different shots
You didn’t cross the line
You used a range of shots
The volume on the sound just needs increasing