ReflectionOf

P-task

The criteria for the P-task was to create a video in school using a Match-on-action, Reverse shot type and the 180 degree rule along with dialogue.

Here we have used a Match-on-action to show one scene from two perspectives using the 180degree rule (school music corridor).

Here we have used reverse shot types to present a conversation whilst the audience views the actors from the previous speakers point of view, this makes the audience feel more engaged with the video (school staircase).

During the filming process of the P-task I learnt that there are many problems which could easily ruin our footage. Filming in school was troublesome as students would be walking past and sound levels would not be the same therefore our choice of location helped us avoid this problem to an extent.

Sound is a problem as the actors have to adjust their voice as to how far the camera is, also the corridors we chose to film in was usually empty during lesson times but this meant that the actors voices would echo if they spoke too loud. We used the echo of the music created from the lessons to our advantage and started our film off with non-diegetic sound.

Organising actors was a major problem as not all our members were free at the same times, this meant that we had limited time to film and edit. The actors also weren’t wearing the same clothes therefore we were not able to film as frequently as we would have liked due to the fact that this would create a continuity error.

We had to record nearly every scene more than once, this is partially because of minor mistakes by actors but we also recorded most scenes a few times so that we had a lot of footage for when we edited as not all the scenes would work together.

Framing proved to be more difficult that we had anticipated as our location was not always flat /at one level, we only had a problem with framing one or two times where our actors head is cut off but we decided to use these scenes as the actor was usually entering or exiting the shot.

I’ve learned a lot during the editing process of the P-task. First of all I have learnt how to use final cut pro, this software was used to edit our footage into one video and make the video more fluid.

Sound was adjustable on the editing software as we managed to keep our video constant at 18decibels. This was made easier due to the fact that our sound did not fluctuate that much during our filming process.

Organising our group for the editing process was not that difficult as our group attended after school to finish our video. Next time we have to be more organised during the filming process as that would give us more time for editing.

As our group had quite a lot of footage, we were able to go through and select the scene and sub-clips we thought best fitted together with any other scenes making our video more interesting. We also edited the colour of our selected footage to make the location seem more real as the camera gave off a slightly different colour than reality.

I have also learnt how to use final cut pro to crop out unwanted scenery which is easier than recording the scenes over again, luckily we did not need to crop any scenes.

Editing helped us make our video more interesting by doing simple things such as adding a fade to the beginning and ending of our video.