Thirty second film!

So, for our introduction and warm up with the cameras, the exam board set us a thirty second exercise which we must do. We don't get marked for the piece itself but if we don't complete it, we get marked down! It had to consist of a person opening a door and coming through it, having a small bit of dialogue with a person already in the room.
To get us started, Mr V showed us a small clip of our task, which the exam board did and explained the concept of crossing the line. This is where, when filming, you must draw an imaginary (straight) line where you have place your camera down where you want your shot, then you must not put your camera anywhere on the other side of the line. Like in bench ball, where you can't cross over to the other persons side.
Then we had to do a story board...



Following the story board, we chose our groups. I went with Jerome and James. We set off filming... and hit the editing on the mac's........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlpxlO3vi4

I found this exercise really useful because I thought directors just read the play, then literally ordered whatever came into their heads to be set up for the filming (sounds really daft now) So the story boards were really useful in seeing how it is really done. Also the filming was really fun. The counting to ten before action I found was really absurd but made complete sense! Using the Macs to edit was really weird because I always thought things were taken in one shot, and never knew you could join two shots together in the middle of a scene! Also I’ve never edited so it made it quite fun to learn all the controls!

Command j = fast forward
Command k =?
Command l = rewind
Command 8 = put video from the camera to the computer
Space bar = play!


Jeromes film clip ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYmdxRhVpbw&feature=related

James's film clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9EnIPC2xgQ&feature=related