'29 January 2016'
My Group
Lyle
Cai
Cai
The Extension Task...
2 Write up how you planned it...
Before we started anything to do with production, we as a group (Lyle and Cai) got together at our work station and produced some notes and sketches on a storyboard template to give us a feel of what we want out of this exercise. Before any of that we had to make a decision based upon what the topic of the silent film was going to be. For example the "loosing of your phone" or "deadline day". Deadline day was the idea we stuck by.
This exercise was done over the course of two days (Thursday and Friday). As you have probably gathered I am the one and only actor in this. Shooting took up two days and by having this duration I thought to myself, having to shoot again on Friday meant it would be sensible for me to wear the same clothes as I did Thursday. Say if I didn't do this the audience minds would be left confused.
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- Positives and possible improvements...
The use of a present tense narration talking to the character was humorous, as well as th use of keyboard language. However at the end, the character could have tried messing about with the printer or a close up saying not working.
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- Decided Shot Types
Of course when mocking up ideas for our storyboard, we also considered the kind of shots that would be needed. As an idea for the aftermath of the video I thought I would comment how effective the shots were.
As follows...
The use of wide shots was very effective in allowing audiences to easily see what your character was doing. It also gave a rather humorous tone in emphasising the characters attempts to be hopeless. I particularly like the opening shot where the right side of the frame has the wall giving more visual interest. However, there could have maybe been some close ups of you reacting to the computers not working.
Having the shot with me just staring at the computer does not so clearly convey the the printer cannot work.
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3 | Write up your editing techniques used (screenshots) |