Bloopers from The Prisoner and Haematemesis

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Haematemesis!

Here's our final cut for Haematemesis on Vimeo!
https://vimeo.com/112495108

Vlog 1

Vlog 1 from Rhiann Quinn on Vimeo.

Editing Day One

The editing process has begun!
We've uploaded all of the clips to our induvidual media servers and we have started watching each one to see which ones are good and which ones are useless - albeit hilarious - bloopers. Elleah and I had a right laugh doing this as some of the unuseable clips were actually so funny that we've made our own bloopers reel!

Filming has been completed! :D

FILMING IS DONE!
We have successfully completed our filming! Josh and Sam worked excellently and acted brilliantly for our piece and Elleah and I are very pleased with the footage we shot.
We had a small issue with finding a room to actually shoot the scenes in as we'd tried to book the Sjovall Centre for Thursday night and unfortunately Thursday was the only day that we couldn't have it! We then tried to book Kepler as we thought it would be a perfect choice for a meeting as it's organised in a very formal 'board room like' fashion; unfortuantely that was also booked! Frantically, we tried to see if Fibonacci would be free but Lamb had claimed it for musical purposes (Elleah and I were getting a bit worried by this point). Thankfully one of the music rooms in Kielder was free for us to use and actually proved to be a perfectly suitable area to work in.
Filming was generally a pain-free process and we got everything shot in the space of around an hour. The boys worked efficiently and enabled us to get all the shots we needed; they even contributed new ideas that Elleah and I hadn't actually thought of previously!
Now we are ready to start editing together the footage :-)

Continuity project

Elleah and I have finished our storyboards and scripts and have now collected all of our props together for our piece. We're filming tonight in Kepler, a small meeting room in our school, and we just need to book the camera and we're all ready to go!

York Film Festival 🎥

We've been to the York Film Festival today and it's been so fun! We learnt a lot about camera work and watched a lot of short films which were amazing too!

New Project!!

We have been given our task for the next four weeks and it's largely centred around a very important principle in media: continuity. Even the pros sometimes skip on the basics here! So Mr Earl gave us the task of creating a small scene between two people, maybe with a small amount of dialogue, and abiding to the 180 rule, doing an action match and shot/reverse shot. Elleah and I decided to work together again and in one lesson we've managed to complete our script, get our actors - Sam Bryan and Josh Morgan - and arrange a location and shooting day so we are right on schedule for shooting the actual scenes next week. 

Evaluation of 'The Prisoner'

Our task over the past month or so was to create a small piece based on a pre-written script provided to us by Mr Earl. We had to create storyboards, production schedules, film, edit, log and upload in the space of roughly three weeks, a task that we found challenging yet extremely fulfilling and fun to do! 

What went well?

From the word go, I had a great feeling about this. Elleah and I have never exclusively worked together before but when we were planning, we bounced ideas back and forth and got through all of our paperwork quickly, effectively and with time to spare; we both realised that we made a good team and our creative similarities and differences actually meshed together well. We drew up our storyboard and labelled them with all the camera movements and effects we thought would be the most effective; we focused on setting the atmosphere with more basic stationary shots than trying to overload a bunch of moving shots into the mix, however we did include enough to add a bit of variety. 

We picked Sam Bryan and Kieran Gray to act in 'The Prisoner' for us and they were both excellent; both very talented actors and they were efficient and professional when filming. During filming, we got all of the shots done on schedule and actually some shots and input were given by our actors, meaning more creative ideas and lightbulb moments happened between us. One shot that I particularly remember being successful was when we filmed Kieran walking from a low angle with the sky behind him; I felt this shot created the ominous and foreboding atmosphere we wanted and connoted Kieran's character as being evil and malicious without even saying a word. 

Editing was generally a smooth process. Elleah and I logged all of the shots we were going to use and had a bit of a laugh watching the less successful ones! We found some fantastic sound effects on the school desktop that were perfect for Scene 1 (without music, we felt it was bare and a bit boring) and carried on the tension through the scene. We added effects such as ghosting and fade outs to scenes for maximum dramatic effect and we also cut and rearranged certain pieces of footage with ease. 

What went wrong?

Firstly during filming of Scene 2, we were originally lighting the room with a small lamp. However unfortunately the bulb blew halfway through filming, leaving us literally in the dark! This posed some lighting and continuity issues when we came to edit; this also happened when we filmed in two separate locations for scene 1. We couldn't find a small building anywhere near our scene 1 chosen location so we had to use somewhere else and edit the pieces together however, one of the pieces of filming was done on a sunny day, the other was done on a cloudy evening which again posed continuity and lighting issues when editing. Luckily - with a bit of help from Mr Earl - we changed the contrast of certain clips and pieces of footage so the footage was still usable and effective. 

Overall I would say that this was a very successful piece of work and I am very pleased with how it turned out. I'm looking forward to starting the next piece of work :-)