Matt's Preliminary Assesment Evaluation!

I think we took full use of the cameras ability, we wanted to make our recreation look as proffesional as possible, one way in which we did this was by using a tripod for each scene and camera level, this ensured there was no amature camera shaking, as it is impossible to keep a straight hand if holding the camera to take a shot. When making our peice, we spent lots of time making sure our shot was framed appropriately, making sure that each shot was as close to the original as possible, another way we did this was by making our storyboard as detailed as possible. When decided which 30-40 seconds to recreate, we decided to use a clip that showed a variety of shot types, this way we could show our full ability in our peice.
     I beleive that our editing definitely showed our use of continuity, as we took this into concideration strongly when creating our peice, making sure that we remembered both the 30 degree and the 180 degree rule. In the editing process we spent alot of time peicing our shots together precisely so our peice went together as smooth as possible.
    The character in our clip used no major props or make up, yet we still had decisions to make when decided what our actor was going to look like, we decided to go for a casual teenage boy look. When decided a house for our peice, we chose the perfect place to shoot, an old fashioned seventies style house, which I beleive gave more of a haunted ghostly effect than either mine or Ewans house, which would be much more modern and not have the same effect. When choosing our actor, we chose very appropriatly as our actor had past experience in acting, and we beleived this would be very rewarding for our peice.
     Looking back on our peice, I beleive that maybe we could of chose a more advanced clip, as maybe we were to conscious of picking something that was easy to film, If I was to ever do this again, I beleive I would choose something that could maybe show my ability more.
     

Film

This is our finished 40 seconds. We believe that we edited this as well as we could and are very impressed with what we have done

Makeup Test Shots

This was our attempt at makeup. (Some would say ill fated). We used Ewans 5 year old sister Ellie as our subject, because this best suited the kind of ghost girl vibe we were going for. We started by randomly throwing flour on her face, which we realized didn't really work at all, since it kept falling off, but eventually we managed to get enough on to look good. After this, we smeared tomato ketchup round her mouth, to give a blooded creepy image, which again we learnt didn't work that well. One thing we both agreed worked, was the use of eyeliner, to give that classic creepy eyes look. After the main makeup was on, We popped her head under the shower and soaked her hair, for a straggly drowned look. Obviously what we didn't realize is that putting her under the shower would wash off all the makeup we'd just spent time putting on, so after some crying, we reapplied the makeup with a new found confidence, and the result is above. Ta daa.

Day 23

This is our "Visual Composition" piece. In this piece we also made a story before hand for the first time. After editing our piece our mac crashed, which meant that we had to quickly re edit it, which meant that our piece is not edited to perfection

assessment Exercise Original

This is the original piece we have chose to do our 30-40 second clip on.

Continuity Shoot

Right, this was a practice shooting session, to get the hang of continuity. One major problem is we forgot to white balance and some shots are unfocused. But we did get a few things right, such as Matt leaving and some spot on sounds. Live and learn.

Cowboy Film.

This is our practice session shooting a mock gunfight. Wasnt a great success due to several technical issues, but we saved it thanks to some nifty sound effects.

Looking back on this piece we now realize that we had no continuity and that although edited, our film doesn't make much sense due to this fact. We prefer to look at this in a positive way and learn from this process and to make sure we focus on continuity more in our next piece.