7 WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT FILM MAKING

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT FILM MAKING 

I have created an Emaze to show what I have learned through out the process of this course. Click Here to view it.

FILMING:PREZI

I have created a Prezi to display the steps my group and I took when filming one of our scenes. 


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CONSTRUCTION AND FILMING: WHAT HAVE I LEARNT

Killing scene- when filming this scene due to the area we were using we has to work at speed as the rooms was needed for a teachers meeting this placed pressure on us. Despite of this we managed to work quickly and used the natural light to our full advantage as it shone of the hair of the girl and created a reflection of the girls face on the surface of the piano this added extra effect. 
News scene- In order to create a realistic set for our news/forensic scientist scene  I ordered police tape, forensic suits, face masks and foot covers. This made it look realistic and believable and it will help the audience relate the more realistic that it looks. When filming this sense all went well and we managed to do it in only one shot, it was only until we began to edit that we realised that the wild sound of the wind had drowned out the sound of our news reported speaking.
Van scene- this scene involved lots of preparation before even beginning to film as the set has to look realistic and lived in. I used a old OS map and news articles to decorate the set. We then did various shots of the van, one full pan and other close up shots. 
Morning/ Kitchen scene- before filming this scene as a group we discussed it would be much more realistic if we used a real lived in kitchen rather than creating one at school. Furthermore, we lit the house with bright filming lights as we were using a laptop screen meaning the lighting behind had to be extremely bright for the laptop screen to be visible. During this scene we used many different shot types, for example, low angle shot when Winter is picking up her post and  over the shoulder shot when she is looking through her post. Winter is dressed in short night wear to make the girl relatable and vulnerable as she is showing skin. 

FILMING: CREATING THE SET

In order to create a reilistic set for our news/forensic scientist scene  I ordered police tape, forensic suits, face masks and foot covers. This made it look realistic and believable and it will help the audience relate the more realistic that it looks. I have learnt that it is extremely important to have realistic props to create a life like set.

Again the importance of crops rubbed off on me as I took responsibility in our group to create props for one of the scenes in our film opening that we were filming this week. 
Firstly I made a map of the local area of where our film is set, I did this by cutting a OS map and then using old string and photos of the young girl that is being stalked in our film. These are going to be the mise-en-scene of the van that the stalker is living in. 

I used Flipagram to present this information.