Today I got into the group that I had been put into, with Mark and Jack to which Jack discussed with me what they did in the previous lesson (as I was away) the two had decided on an idea that we as a group would work on. I must admit the idea they have come up with I really like and I am looking forward to planning it. The idea that the two came up with was about a person (I'm not quite sure about age or gender) and they were really into wizardry, the person was obsessing over Harry Potter and was going through a book and trying to perform spells, though nothing happened and the person eventually gave up. As this person leaves the room all of the spells that he/she tried then begin to come into effect. This has a comical effect (in my opinion) and I really think that this idea would play out well.
Once I had caught up on the previous lesson we begun writing the shot list for the short that we had in mind. We came up with the person reading a Harry Potter book of which would be put down and a "Wizardry for Dummies" book would be picked up as they then try and do the spells, we also decided on some spells that would be used and the planning for the shot list is well under way.
Hopefully next lesson we will have the shot list completed and uploaded and begin story boarding of which I am looking forward to. I think that trying to work out shot duration will be difficult but it will be done!
17th October
I was late to lesson this morning as I had a dentist appointment and in that time Jack discussed the shotlist through with Mark (as he was away on the 16th) when I turned up the shotlist had been finished and I am happy with the shot choices and planning. We all then went on to do the storyboard and this is where we planned out each shot that we had write, along the way we elaborated more and things got in more detail, we also adjusted the last shot and added in one more, this was really handy and the shotlist will be updated to match the storyboard though we did stick to it but with some improvements to make it all flow and the continuity would be right.
I am going to draw up the images in the storyboard then regroup with Jack and Mark tomorrow to make sure they are happy with it and suggest any improvements or adjustments as I will be drawing out all the shots that we all decided on.
18th October
We contiuned with the storyboards as I had taken then home to draw up, we went through then and added in more details and arrow directions. After we had finished the storyboards, Jack and I went location scouting and did a location recce in the college library, we filled out the form and got it signed by the librarian. We knew this was the place that we wanted to shoot out and therefore we also filled out and got the location release signed. This was for us to shoot on Monday the 21st October. We agreed on this date and the librarian was happy we were going to shoot during 13:45 and 4:00 on that date. Having done this we also printed off the talent release forms as we knew who we wanted for the short. Handing out the forms we made sure they would both have them filled in and done by Monday. Finally we wrote a scrap list of props that we would need for Monday.
Next lesson we plan to shoot, even though we haven't done the props/costumes list we have a quick note of everything we need and it just needs to be wrote up. Hopefully being able to film we will get it all done and I look forward to doing this.
21st October
So today was filming day! It went so well, we filmed everything within the time allocated and we got multiple shots and takes just in case, we followed the storyboard and it really helped us along the way when we were shooting. There was a little bit of trouble when recording as we found that having a mirror was difficult to hang in the area that we hand, so instead of the mirror we decided we would remove the wand box as this was easier to do. Still following the storyboard minus the use of the mirror we found this to work really well. I think that not using the mirror was handy and it didn't mess up anything too much, in fact I think it was easier to make the wand box disappear. I really am pleased with how the filming went. We got back to class and uploaded the files onto the mac.
Next lesson hopefully we will have the props and costumes list wrote up and on my blog neatly, also having a short script of some dialogue that was used. Though we aren't using the dialogue that was recorded when we were shooting, we are going to re-record the voices and the ambient sounds t later add on in post-production, hopefully these things will be done in the next couple of days.
22nd October
Finishing off last pieces we made a props and costumes list. This list was simple as we didn't have many props or costumes, only a few which were the main essentials and these were simple to note down. After doing that we double checked we had everything else, of which we did. Having time left over we used this to watch our shooting that we did yesterday, this was really good as we got an understanding of everything to see if we could piece it all together. We then decided we would start editing just to get a rough idea of what things we can do. When editing we realised that there is a mis-match with one of the shots as we see the wand go onto the page at a left angle but when we cut to the extrme close-up the wand is in the opposite direction, therefore we are going to need to reshoot this. This will having to be done with all of the shots consisting of tracking down the spells page but it should be simple as it is a simple shot. After editing a little we left it so we could prepare for what to do next lesson.
Next lesson we plan to reshoot the shot that went wrong and hopefully fix that and then continue to edit, this will be a good lesson to get as much done as possible so that when I go on holiday for two weeks I would have started the editing and then I won't be too far behind when I return and I can then see the final process they did with the editing. I look forward to next lesson and hopefully we get those two things done.
23rd October
As we finished our rough edit we were quite pleased with how it all turned out. Watching it through a few times we pre-planned what we need to reshoot and we are ready to regroup in F block today as we are all free and we are going to reshoot our last shoot as we are going to do it with a jib to make it more stable. This should work well but I think the only difficulity will be trying to get the jib in the small area that we have, not only that but having to set up the entire set again will be difficult- the books are the only ones we need to do as the box will be easy to place. Hopefully this will be quick and simple. Not only that but we can reshoot the tracking down the spell spage with the wand in the right direction.
After half term I hope for the group to edit everything together and do the dialogue recording so that when I return I can see the final piece. I look forward to coming back after half term as I really think that our shooting has gone well and this short could work. I think having got the editing pretty much finished we are well set and planned for what we have left to do. I look forward to coming back after my holiday.
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