Media Theory - Question 1A - Research And Planning

Research and planning have been key to the production of my short film as they have helped me mould my short film into the ideal product that I wanted it to be. Through research I have managed to see a whole host of short films and from there I have been able to build on it and implement the ideas from those short films that I was fond of into my own project. The research also helped me create my poster and my article as I read loads of articles and looked at many posters in order to get a clear understanding as to what I should be producing if I wanted my own poster and my own article to look like it was professionally made. The planning phase of my project allowed me to gather my ideas that I collected from the research phase and implement them into the ongoing project. This was very helpful as I feel without the planning phase I wouldn’t have been able to implement all of my previously established ideas because I may have forgotten them along the way. I found using the internet and YouTube very helpful when it came to research and planning as it allowed me to watch thousands of videos that could possibly give me ideas relating to my own project.

Media Theory - Question 1A - Post-Production

After I had finished the production of my own short film and the article and the poster it then became apparent to me that I needed to refine my work in order to achieve the grade that I needed. I started to go back to my research and my planning in order to refresh my ideas that I had at the start. This also helped me to see if I had missed anything that I had previously wanted to implement in my video or my poster. I had to render out my video, in order to make it the best possible quality it could be I had to consult an online guide that helped me with getting the correct render settings. I opted to render it out as a draft first to make sure everything I wanted to be in the video was there and in order to ensure that the video looked as good as it possibly could. I also had to export the other two tasks. These were slightly easier to export and I managed to do it with ease.

Contact Sheet

Over my shooting of my short film I only took one image as it was all that I needed to use for my poster as my article features pictures taken directly from the short film. I chose for this particular image to be the main image that my tasks focused around as it is dark and mysterious and creates a lot of intrigue around my short film.

PRODUCTION LOG - Call Sheet

The call sheet is a document that is required to let the equipment company know how much equipment you and your production team require. This document is crucial not only to the equipment company or the production studio but to me as a director.
It helps me keep track of what equipment I will be needing,
How I will be using that equipment,
How long I will need that equipment for and so on. It helps because it lets me visualise the entire project as a whole and much like the production schedule it lets me put a deadline or a goal onto my work.

Call Sheet

This is the call sheet for me to use when looking at the organised dates I have set aside for shooting. The sheet looks like it contains very little information and it does but this is because my short film is an exceedingly small production in the sense that it is all shot in one month at one location and it only requires two people, me and my actor Arun. I will be taking 1 or 2 cameras out in order to get multiple shots or angles; this is still to be confirmed at a later date as I am not certain on that yet. The call sheet will help me to get an understanding of the schedule that I need to stick to. This post is similar to my schedule post but it goes more into detail than that post.

Alterations made along the way - Article

BEFORE 

Big empty space

 

AFTER

Empty space is filled with a small fact file about the film 

 

BEFORE 

Lacks a nice title

 

AFTER

Title placed and looking good against a white background

PRODUCTION LOG - Finding royalty-free music

In today's lesson I went on the hunt for decent royalty free music to use in my short film. I found a webstie called incompetech that has a whole library of royalty free music that users can download. I clicked a few selection boxes to filter throught the music they had on offer and found a song to use in my short film. I selected the boxes;

• Dark,
• Mysterious,
• Intense,
• Serious,
• and Unnerving.

I did this in order to get the song that I knnow feel is a perfect selection for my short film.

In the second half of todays lesson I started to toy around with the different effects and effect conrtols that come available to me in Adobe Premire Pro CS6. I applied an effect that put my video in black and white and in order to suit the music I had now selected I slowed the video down by setting it to 50% speed.