'Gimme Some Dirt!' Analyse.

Me, Tom and Jack made a short conversation scene called Gimme Some Dirt!

The production process of this short scene went very well. For this we did not plan what we were going to do before we began filming, instead we just went out with an open mind and instead of creating a scene with two people, we decided that we would make a scene with one person talking to a flower. We were meant to shot the whole scene with three separate shots that would be edited together to create our sequence, but we shot more than three angles of the conversation which could have been a mistake but did not look to bad in the final edit. For this scene we used the external microphone which was used to pick up the voices much better. This was effective but next time we will spend more time placing the microphone in correct places to ensure that the voices were being properly picked up in all scenes. We started of with the establishing shot which was a shot of me sitting down at table. We did not use the master shot to much in the final edit because the audio was slightly muffled. The next shot was the over the shoulder behind my head shot. This is to show the flower talking. The following shot is the opposite of that shot where the camera is behind the flower. Showing Jack bring over the watering can. The next shot is the shot were I pour the water over the flower. For this we used slow motion in the editing process and added a slow, romantic type song. The audio fitted the visuals because we used slow motion and the song is relatively slow.

For the rest of the scenes we used either a over the shoulder from my side or from the flowers side. This would have looked more tidy if we had shot the entire scene in 3 shots. Because this was a conversation scene there is not a big variety of shot types we could use.

'The Cupboard' short film analyse.

Me and Tom created a short thriller scene called 'The Cupboard'.

The production process of our film went relatively well, we started off by composing a brief storyboard to get an idea of what we would want to film and how we would go about constructing the scenes.  Once we created a storyboard we started filming our first scene in our set location. Our first scene was a shot of myself walking up the stairs a Tom walking behind me filming a low angle shot of my feet. This shot would have been more effective if we had used the tripod to keep the camera more steady. Because we didn't use the  tripod the shot was slightly shaky in some places. We shot cut scenes to go between this scene to break up the scene to not make it to long. Our next shot was a close up shot of me opening the door and then walking through it. I thought this shot was good because it was a very steady and focuses on only one thing. 

For our next shot we trying using a tracking shot that was also a over the shoulder shot. This shot would have better again if we had used a tripod to keep the camera more steady. Because we did not the shot was very shaky. We only shot this scene once so in the editing stage we could not fix the scene that much. In our film we used many P.O.V. shots with made the film seem more dramatic. A main P.O.V shot was from my point of perspective being dragged by Tom. In the editing process we added effects to that shot to make the shot look like I was dizzy and confused. We using effects like gaussian and motion blur to do this. 

The final scene was shot in the cupboard hence the title of the film 'The Cupboard'. This scene only consisted of P.O.V shots cutting between both me and Toms perspective. The first shot is of Tom going to take the box off of my head. Then it jump cuts to my perspective inside the box and the box coming off my head. In the shot when the box comes off my head I look towards Tom who has the box infront of his face then there is a fade to finish the film.  

We used a variety of different shot types like low angle shots and close up shots. But we mainly used close up shots which I think was a mistake because it makes the film look messy in places. In the future we will use the tripod in more scenes to make the film look better and more professional. I also think that when we film next that we will film more scenes than we need so while in the editing process we can chop and change scenes instead of going back out to film which can create problems.

In conclusion I think that our short film could have been much improved by using equipment like the tripod in more scenes to make the shot look more tidy. I also learnt that framing for a film is very important and we should take more time to carefully plan our each scene.

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