Shooting Schedule

Available filming time - tuesday pm , wednesday am , thursday am

Classroom scene - tuesday - lessons 5 & 6
Uploading footage - wednesday - lesson 1
corridor scene - wednesday - lesson 2
corridor scene - thursday - lesson 3
uploading footage - thursday - lesson 4
corridor scene - tuesday - lesson 5
uploading footage - tuesday - lesson 6
edititng footage shot so far - wednesday- lessons 1 & 2
Bedroom and Bathroom scene - thursday - lessons 3 & 4
tuesday uploading footage -tuesday - lessons 5 & 6
editing - wednesday - lessons 1 & 2
Recording sound - thursday - lesson 3
uploading sound thursday - lesson 4
General editing and checking - Any available lessons

Shot List

Scene where Melvin gets up was a high angle shot which we intend to last 7-8 seconds.
Melvin in bathroom is an over the shoulder shot which should last 7 seconds.
Classroom scene is hopefully an over the shoulder shot to last 30 seconds.
Corridor scene uses mid shots using 2 cameras lasting 20 seconds.
Girl scene starts with a long shot moving to a mid shot hopefully lasting 15 seconds.

Storyboard 2

Storyboard 1

This is the original storyboard that i drew up to aid in the
production of our two minute film.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

One thing in particular i learnt from our preliminary task was that if we spend more time planning it would be easier for us when we eventually came to filming our piece. For example, when we did the preliminary task we didn't do things like make a script which for this final piece we found to be vital if it was to be a success. A schedule was also devised so before we went into each lesson we knew what we had to do. This came about because when we did the preliminary task sometimes in lessons we didn't do alot because before hand we didn't know what we had to do that lesson. At the start of the preliminary task we only had one idea of what the footage was going to include. Also we produced a script and a camera angles plan to further aid our piece. This helped us because when we came to film it we knew exactly where the camera had to be so we could complete our filming quicker allowing more time for editing etc. Overall i think i have learnt most of all that a good preperation is key to a successful film.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

There are many things i have learnt about technologies while making this film. I learnt a lot more about the editing program adobe premier. In fact i had never heard of the program before i used it in this project. By using it during my editing process i learnt that many editing techniques are easily achieved. The main thing i learnt was how to add music to clips. I didn't know you could stretch the music so it plays over longer distances in your film. We used this particular technique to great effect in our two minute film. Another piece of equipment i learnt how to use was the sound recorder and microphone. We had to record a voiceover to go over the top of our film so i had to use the sound/voice recorder. I learnt how to record a clip and then replay it to see how it sounded and as we kept changing the script this function became an integral part of recording the piece. I do know how to use the internet!!! but i had never heard of a site called freeplayermusic which was the website where we got our music from. We had to choose music from that website as it is all copyright free which is good as its the only type of music we could use!. After hours of careful attention and after sifting through thousands of tracks we found one that was suitable for our piece. We then copied it onto a memory stick and put it onto the computer that the video was saved on. Also i had never transferred music from a website onto another computer via a memory stick so that was something new i learnt about technologies from doing this project. Another thing i learnt about technologies is to do with adobe premier. I learnt that you can add text to the top of a video. We initial tried that but then found it might be better if we added a voiceover instead. Nonetheless it was still a learning curve for me with regards to the functions on adobe premier. All this will help me in similar projects in the future.

How did you attract/address your audience?

As I stated in the last question our main audience for our film is teenagers. I think that by using things that are familiar to that age group the film doesn't seem alien to them and they can relate to it. Most schools will have kids who people deem to be a 'nerd'. So the people watching it either know a 'nerd' or perhaps are one so that comes into it aswell. The things we use that teenagers can relate to is, a typical girl rejecting a boy trying to talk to them that many boys will understand! This was also backed up by a questionaire we did to test audience feedback. People stated in the questionnaire that they would want to watch the rest of the film based on the opening so we know that we were sucessful in attracting our audience. They felt that they were attracted to our film by the sense of farcity in our film, with the speed camera for example. In our film we used many comedy genre techniques to attract our audience. We used unobtrussive editing in order to give it a normal day/event theme rather than a big flashy hollywood production feel. We also used costume , with the stereotypical 'nerdy' jumper, for comedic effect to try and attract comedy lovers to our film. On the camera angles side of things we mostly used standard mid shots. Although we did use one over the shoulder shot which was meant to show how the main character is alienated from the rest of the class. I think this worked because it showed that the teenagers that were on the shoulder side of the camera were talking and generally socialising but Melvin was on his own, not talking to anyone doing his work. That also added to the comedy of the film which was how we attracted our intended audience.