Saturday, 6 November 2010

PRELIMINARY TASK (second time around :) )

Location:
We used one of the classrooms as a location. Although it wasn't the most relevant location to the script, we were more interested in learning the shooting process rather than the script. We also had a redhead and a  blonde (lighting), to support our shoooting. We didn't really know how to use them, so we improvised and set the lighting in a way that their would be the shadow of one of the actors in the background while we were doing the medium close up on the other actor. By doing this we connected them in a single shot even though there was only one person in the screen.
Actors:
We had used two of us from the group for the trial, this time we thought it would be more convenient for all of us to give our full attention to the shooting. For this reason we used two other friends to help us out by acting in our scene.
Shooting:
We were told that we could finish the whole shooting process in only 5 shots (2 close ups+2 over shoulders+1wide shot). Ofcourse, we couldn't manage that because of the classic corpsings (uncontrolable laughters that puts actors out of character), and the occasional camera confusions etc. But in the end we managed to get our five shots ready to go to the editing room.
Editing:
The editing was more complicated than what we had expected. There were some shots that we were rather proud of and some cuts which were hardly flawless, however in the end I think we pulled it off quite well.
Sound:
We were going to add some sound effects using the program Final Cut Pro, and we tried out different options. In the end we decided that the fake sound effects made our scene less realistic, so we ended up not using it. Although we did not use the program, we did spend loads of time on it to learn how it functions because it's certain we'll need it in the future.

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