This here is our Final Film for me and Alex's Preliminary Task. It has taken us a lot of hard work to make this short film however we have done extremely well in my opinion making our first proper film using more advanced softwares and packages.
In my post about my "Storyboard" for this Preliminary Task, I was explaining about how different the final outcome might be for our final film, and this to many extents is very true. Me and Alex had a rough idea about what our short film was going to be about, which was a representation of two flatmates who are rapidly in dept and are struggling to come up with a solution to the problem (which for some reason means we end up going to Nandos!). We also had a rough idea of how we were going to film the scenes too. However comparing our Storyboards to our finished film we both could clearly see that there had been many changes made for the finished film both of which were planned but also accidental.
When filming our footage, we were using a Canon 650D DSLR to record the footage whilst also having a RODE VideoMic Pro to improve sound quality, as well as a Tripod for extra support. It had taken us several attempts to get the right camera angles and shots as well as following some of the basic rules of filming such as the 180 degree rule. Our deleted scenes footage will be shown towards the bottom of this post!
Once we had recorded our footage, both me and Alex would take it in turns to edit our film together in different sections using Adobe Premiere Pro on the Apple Macs at school. Sometimes one of us would work on just the sound effects and volume whilst the other would work on editing the footage and vice versa. We were both very uneasy with Premiere at first however we soon both got the hang of it
A Screenshot of our Progress on Adobe Premiere Pro
There are many positives which we can both make of this film, however there are also some major flaws with it as well. Throughout the filming we were obviously using only one camera, so we could not be filming all of our footage at once, we had to do it in stages. We had to therefore be careful as to how we would position ourselves every time we would start a new sequence. A mistake can be seen when I am resting my arm against my head as in two different shots within the same sequence, I am using both my left and then my right rather than only using my left.
Head rested on Left Arm
Then the Right
Then back to the Left
This had therefore made the sequence look a bit obvious for the jumpy editing we had to do. This is a major flaw to this film however and it is not very obvious unless you pay close attention.
The best parts of creating this film was the actual filming itself as we both loved experimenting with different Camera angles and shots whilst shooting, although we both also loved the editing part as there a lot of interesting effects which we were able to make using Premiere. Like with any film however, the worst parts are always the beginning as we were both struggling at first as to what our film could be about. Also the long periods of rendering can become a nightmare after a while!
Overall this was a really fun and interesting first attempt of short film and me and Alex are both extremely excited to be starting our Main Task which will be more improved with better footage, effects, audio, and of course the story itself.
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