‘The Package’
Our task was to produce a short film titled ‘The Package’
including tension and suspense, to give us practice with sound, camera and
editing. We came up with a short storyline and had to plan the shots and were
limited to the school grounds.
We started filming swiftly and we got half of it done by the
second day but then the SD card got misplaced by someone in our group so we
lost all our footage which set us back a lot. So we definitely learnt from that
mistake. But re-filming the shots we lost was easy, as we knew exactly where to
place the camera and what to do.
Once we had finished filming and downloaded our shots onto
the computer we noticed the other mistakes we made, as they were more obvious
on a bigger screen. For example in a few shots it was clear that the tripod wasn’t
set up straight, so the corridor looks like it’s slanted, but this highlighted
to us the importance of checking the spirit level before we recorded every
shot.
A positive of the task was that it gave us some editing
practice and we used techniques such as match on action and continuity editing.
Overall the task was very useful and we now won’t repeat the same mistakes we
made.
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