As a task we had to film a scene from a feature length film. We started by creating storyboards following a brief and a script. The script was short because it only had two lines and the brief was describing the scene, characters and showing the stage directions but did not say what shots to include. Another thing that made the task harder was that we didn't know the name of the real film so we could not see how the scene was directed or filmed. When we actually got to filming, we based it off of Charlie's story board. Charlie acted as a director, I was the camera man and Liam and Ollie were actors. However everyone decided on which shots looked best. The editing was done by myself and then refined by Ollie with the addition of music and sounds. When we were actually filming, we didn't follow the storyboard exactly because we realised that some shots were not possible or didn't look very good so we changed them while filming. It was very easy to film because we had planned most of it, however we needed to decide on locations just before starting to film. Some shots we used were based off of the shot types and angles that we had studied from the blog post before. Comparing the video to the original scene, we focused more on creating the scene than adding suspense to the chase scene. Also, we didn't really create a chase scene at the end unlike the original scene. The original scene used some dolly shots, however we were unable to do that so we used handheld shots and panning shots. We took care with our camera movement to make it as smooth as possible and shorter shots but in the original it seems that they have used shaky, longer shots. We made the choices we did because we felt that it was important to set the scene and introduce the characters, but we didn't really focus on the chasing scene which we should have done. The original clip focuses a lot on the chasing scene, however we hardly included one. I would add a longer chasing scene if we were to re-film it. To improve the original I would smooth the shots out so they weren't shaky or all over the place and i would make the shots a lot shorter. And as for ours, I would make the chasing scene longer. I liked the fact that we managed to do what we did on a very low budget. They used a lot of long shots in the original for running, however we used a lot of close up and mid shots. The meaning we used is the same as the original. The main character is being hunted down by a gang and eventually gets chased by one of their members. The member punches the character in our film but slashes him with a knife in the original. This could mean the gang member was trying to kill the character but we was only trying to harm him in our film. The setting of the original scene is firstly set indoors and he gets the papers out of a locker instead of his pocket. Ours isn't set like that however, it is all outdoors but theirs starts indoors and then they go outdoors. In my opinion this doesn't make any difference because they are still very similar settings (schools and colleges). The mood of the films change at the same time. For example, the mood changes in the original when he finds the papers and it's the same with ours. Comments are closed.
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Will TownsendA keen videographer and photographer. Currently studying Level 3 Creative Media Production at SGS WISE Campus, Bristol. Archives
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