Planning & Filming

I created a storyboard that gave me a clear outline of what I wanted to create during the filming stage, including camera angles and proximity. After I had decided on what I wanted to create, I used a handheld camera and tri pod to film the scenes. I varied in camera angles to empathise something and their importance. In the conversation between Danielle and George I kept to the rule of 180 degrees turn that is common in all TV shows and Movies; switching to focus on the current speaker.

IMOVIE & Editing

To split a clip, you have to highlight the part that you want to split and click on ‘clip’ at the top of the screen before selecting ‘split clip’ to separate the bigger clip into two smaller parts. This allows you to mute parts of a clip, edit it and change the brightness, speed etc.

If the diegetic sound is too quiet then voice can be enchanced by clicking on audio adjustments on the clip. Through this, you can edit the sound to your liking. Audio adjustment allows a person to reduce background noise and/or increase/decrease a particular sound.

The equalizer allows you to change certain aspects of the sound (music, voice, background etc) whilst the clip itself can be changed through fade in’s and fade out’s. These fade outs will mostly be used in low action clips as it reflects a calm or melancholy atmosphere.

To edit a clip’s visual aspect, you need to click on the video adjustments, allowing you to change the visuals to suit your style of genre. If a clip is too dark you can adjust the brightness to make the clips more visible and the objects within them. This prevents viewers from becoming bored as they will find it difficult seeing facial expressions and body language through dark clips.

The atmosphere in the clip can also be manipulated by clicking on ‘clip adjustment’ and then ‘video effect’. Once in video effects, you can change The style of clip to reflect a certain mood or to conform to the stereotypical views of a particular genre. Also, effects can be used to hint or foreshadow something. The effect ‘dream’ hints that the person is dreaming whilst ‘serpia’ reflects a more sci-fy feel.