Keeping a note...
For Single Camera Technique I was asked to create a short film from 5-10 minutes. The first stage of making this single camera film was pre-production I feel this stage went really well, I was in a group with Brittany and Sophie, we worked together with most things but when it came to pre-production we had to organise the paperwork and allocate different paper work for each of us, so each of us was responsible for getting certain pieces of paperwork done for certain dates. I was gave the responsibility of the call sheets, organising all the times, locations and dates etc, the location recce was another piece of paper work I was responsible for, this included writing where the location to shoot would be and going to the location to see if it is a suited place to film. I was also responsible for holding an Agenda meeting this included taking notes of the production to work out what will be feasible and what wouldn’t.
There were a few problems when it came to shooting out film as for personnel we need quite a few people to cover the character roles as people were already allocated roles from other productions or helping in other productions. There were 4 other people asked by Sophie to be in our film. Just incase for some reason someone couldn’t make it. These were people outside of college who all arranged to help out, but unfortunately they had other important arrangements so they ended up letting us down. As a result of this we had to then sit down, work out and compromise with someone else in another group production, this was hard but because of the amount of time we had to work together and compromise with what we had.
After the production stage we then had to edit our short film, this was the post-production stage. The editing stage took longer than we all expected. We found some parts difficult with getting the timing correct and lined up with the speech, and also the reactions to each other when doing the four point garbage matte as we needed one person to show up on the screen twice but look two different people. The only reason why this took longer than expected was because no-one in our group had ever done garbage matte before so getting use to this took a while with lining up the two shots. The other problem that occurred was when we got to editing a scene that we had shot, it was a lot harder than we originally thought because we only had one angle for each shot, so we couldn’t change shots and make them close up or mid shots etc to hide any occurring imperfections with some master shots,
One of the scenes we shot when watching it back we found that it was extremely windy so the microphone was picking up all the non diagetic sound that we didn’t want as the wind was overlapping the dialogue making it hard for us to hear the character speaking. Because of this we had to re-record the audio in the radio studio so we could take out the old sound and replace it using the new re-recorded sound, we also put some of the wind sound back in so it didn’t sound so lost when listening to it. With re-recording a sound clip this added even more time onto the editing because we had to match up the audio to the lip syncing, and then lowering the volume of the wind. This made all the dialogue clear and to the same decibel as the wind. Unfortunately we ran out of time to be able to edit everything because of the problems, with the shoot that occurred so we couldn’t get everything done that we wanted too. As a result of this we hoped that we can continue the edit and then re-submit it. The things we wanted to add were a soundtrack to enhance the film more, giving it emotion. The other thing we wanted to add a title to the film so it didn’t rush straight into a scene, we also need to fix the sound levels and finish animating the four point garbage matte as there are times were Agne’s (The twin) body collides with the other character making the edit visible and obvious.
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