Brief two seems like it would be a slightly tricky task but there is a lot to choose from when doing a film trailer. The range of genre's means that there are a lot of different options with this brief which would be interesting to research.
The smaller tasks are my favourite out of all of the possible briefs as I like to be artistic with drawing and creating images so the magazine front cover and poster would be great for me to do.
I have researched on YouTube.com and found some different genre's of films. Personally my favourite films are action and superhero films, however, for this task I don't believe that these genres would be the best to do because the special effects used would be very hard to re-create. Instead, I think that genre's such as horror and comedy would be the best for this task.
HORROR
However, I think there are some horror films that would be too difficult to do because of the equipment used in the film and also the special effects used, such as This One.
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Comedies or romantic comedies are probably the easiest type of film trailer to produce in terms of the use of CGI or special effects as there are normally none/very little. However, these films do require a high standard of acting and a very good script.
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Monday, 29 September 2014
Research - Brief 1
Brief one seems like an approachable and interesting task. I like the idea of doing a promo video as I believe that I could find a number of people willing to be in this video and who look like a professional band. I also love music so this would be a fun challenge for me and my group to create our own music promo video. I also believe that unlike some of the other tasks, this task would be completable with the equipment and settings that we have.
I have researched on YouTube.com and found some music video's that are semi-professional and would be similar to the work that we would be able to produce.
Video 1
These Video's are of a local band called 'Guardians'. The video's were filmed by a semi-professional film maker and were filmed around the area. This will be the same area that we are able to film in which makes them good examples for us to look at.
This is another video that is slightly more difficult but is also doable and would I think that it would be very interesting to create a video similar to this.
Video 3
The smaller tasks also seem interesting such as a magazine advertisement for the digipak. I think this would also be a fun task to create something that we see so much of every single day - an advertisement.
Video 1
These Video's are of a local band called 'Guardians'. The video's were filmed by a semi-professional film maker and were filmed around the area. This will be the same area that we are able to film in which makes them good examples for us to look at.
This is another video that is slightly more difficult but is also doable and would I think that it would be very interesting to create a video similar to this.
Video 3
My suggestions
After looking at the 14 briefs, I have narrowed it down to three briefs to three that I would be interested in researching further into. These three are;
Brief 1: A promotion package for the release of an album.
Brief 2: A promotion package for a new film.
Brief 6: A selection of materials related to an original children's TV drama.
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Video
Things we did well:
- We used our time efficiently and we able to finish our video in the time given.
- We were all able to take on different roles and help each other when needed.
- Everybody in our group had a equal voice when it came to decisions, however, the director was able to efficiently make decisions.
- All come together at the same time to make our video.
Things I would change:
- More planning and research will be needed for the main task.
- Make sure that we look at multiple places to film and choose the most appropriate.
- Film in more than one place to make our video seem more authentic.
- Record some dialogue to put over the top of our video.
- As we filmed on 2 separate days, the costume of the main character differed. This did not affect our video too much but I would make sure next time that the costumes remained consistant to avoid continuity errors.
- We would ensure that the actors/actresses got more rehearsal time.
Editing
We edited our shots together using an i-Mac program called i-Movie. This program was very easy to learn how to use and allowed us to put our shots together professionally. Not only did it allow us to cut our shots down to size and run them after each other, it also allowed us to put effects any of the shots and add music or sound effects to the background for any length of time. The editing was a group effort as we all sat around one computer to watch and give our opinions. I began the editing with opinions from the rest of my group on which looked better so we could all make decisions together. Then I took a back seat for the rest of the editing and gave my opinions when needed.
Monday, 22 September 2014
Filming
Since we only had a very short amount of time to complete this task, our filming had to be done quickly but as professional as possible. It took a few practice shots to get used to using the camera but we quickly figured everything out. We filmed most shots about two or three times to ensure that we had the whole shot without any mistakes and, when it came to editing, we would be able to choose the best of the shots to use in our finished clip. On our storyboard we had 12 shots. However, this was a maximum of what we could do and we only ended up doing 8 so we could do the 8 shots better and spend more time on those.
We decided on the best location even though we only had a limited space to use. This space was inside and not busy so we would not get people walking through our shots. We also chose an area with a door as one of our shots needed a closing and opening door or lift.
We needed two props; a jacket and a bandage. We used an old white tea towel as a bandage and I provided a jacket to be used.
We decided on the best location even though we only had a limited space to use. This space was inside and not busy so we would not get people walking through our shots. We also chose an area with a door as one of our shots needed a closing and opening door or lift.
We needed two props; a jacket and a bandage. We used an old white tea towel as a bandage and I provided a jacket to be used.
Storyboard
I was chosen to draw the storyboard onto our template as I enjoy being artistic. We first got up the real trailer from the internet and decided which scenes were doable and could be completed within the time scale and with the amount of people in our group. We decided on "Lucy" because this film focused on one main character and so we did not need to call in any extra people to be actors. We chose the first 12 shots which lasted about 30 seconds, cutting out one short shot which had lots of people in it. Also, the set did not seem to difficult to recreate which was key as we did not have much choice of set for this particular task.
Real lucy trailer HERE
Real lucy trailer HERE
Roles within our group
We chose to recreate part of the film trailer "Lucy". For this we needed a main actress and then some smaller acting roles. All of our group had different roles in order to make our trailer well. My first role was to be the actress but after trying a few shots I realised this role wasn't right for me and out group made a decision to put somebody else in that position. My role then changed and I became the cameraman. We also had someone in charge of costume/props (such as the bandage and jacket) and some artistic minds to watch the real trailer as we were creating ours to ensure that we used the correct camera angles. The director in our group was not one specific person, but instead we all had our own input as this was a very quick task and we could not be sure that our whole group would be present every day.
Friday, 19 September 2014
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