26th sept 08

Over the past week we have finished editing our film, but on Thursday, we found out that we hadn't got our storyboard pictures, so we had to redo them. We decided to redo our film as well, because we thought that we could improve it. We had to get someone from another group to act in our film as Lucy, one of our group members was absent.
We went to a different spot to film this time, as we could get some better camera angles, and we had easier access to tables and chairs. I decided that i wanted to act in the film, and that the cameraman would be Chris, from my group.
First of all we took the still shots for our storyboard. We then used those pictures to make the film.
First, we positioned the camera to film the door from the outside, facing towards the door. I walked in to the shot and and opened the door. Chris then took the camera to the other side of the door and i stayed in the same position. He set the camera up at an angle so that you could see me coming through the door, and the table. He then filmed me going through the doorway and closing the door, walking up to the table and sitting down opposite the other character.
Chris then setup the camera for an over the shoulder shot, with the camera looking at me from the other actors shoulder. We filmed one line of dialogue in this shot.
The camera was then setup to show both of us at the table from the side facing each other, keeping to the 180 rule. We filmed one line of dialogue in this shot.
Then in the final shot, we filmed from us both from a side view, but at a medium shot distance this time. In this shot, we shook hands over the table.
We then uploaded our film onto the mac so that we could edit it. Me and Chris stayed behind after school so that we could finish editing our film before Friday when we were going to burn them onto DVDs.
I edited the part where i walk through the door, and the part where i sit down on the chair so that they were very smooth. I done this by cutting small segments off of the ends of the clips, until it was perfect. Chris then added the titles and credits to the film, and also the music. He done that by clicking on the edit button, selecting what type of titles he wanted, and then added text into the box and clicked on the 'add' button.
On Friday, we quickly loaded up our finished film and burned it onto a DVD. Also we were told all about what was going to happen and what we were going to see on our trip to London.

22th sept 08

On friday, we edited our short films. I learned how to add different effects to video clips like transition effects like fading, how to add music to clips, and how to add titles and credits to the start and end of films.
Today we added the finishing touches to our short films. We added credits to the end stating who done what and who acted in it etc. Once we had done that we added some music to play during the opening titles, then the music fades out and the video clip plays, then the music fades back in and plays through the end credits.

11th sept 08

Today i learnt about some of the key concepts of Media. these concepts were Media language, Media text and Media audience.
We also loaded our still shots onto the computer so that we could edit them. once we had uploaded the photos, we put them into a slideshow so that we could view them.

8th sept 08

Today we learnt about the 180 rule. we took the cameras out to take pictures to put on a story board, and we positioned the camera using the 180 rule. i drew a rough copy of the story board and what we wanted each shot to look like. In the storyboard it showed two people walking side by side along a road. using the 180 rule,we took some still shots using the drawings from the rough story board as guidelines.