Evaluation of 8 Shot Journey

Evaluation

For the 8 shot journey we had to make a simple but creative short film that was made up of 8 shot’s, we also had to keep it in mainly one setting or different settings that where similar to one another. Our character had to end up at a destination and not to be just walking around anywhere. Their also had to be a range of shots, that where of different sizes and of different angles.

Looking at the filming of my 8 shot journey I felt that it was fairly good as I didn’t have to do many takes, part of this was because I used people who were in the shot that weren’t meant to be as foreground and had my character as middle ground. I however found that it was hard to get the right space for my camera to stand properly also there was some technical problems with the lift as it took very long to come and other people where in the lift when filming so I had to make sure that no-one but my actor was in shot.

For this project I had two people helping me with different roles the first was Luke Hindle, he was my actor I felt he was very good just needed to concentrate a bit more, his role was to follow my instructions of what I told him to do on camera. The second role was of mark Clowe, he was my location manager his role was to make sure people didn’t do anything silly in front of the camera and to set up the camera for me and say whether the shot matched the story board.

After shooting the 8 shot journeys I went to edit it, the software I used was final cut pro, this is fairly easy software to use it is very basic but also very advanced than your normal editing software’s. the only hard and long bit was actually putting it onto the computer as it took a long while to log the shot’s and get the right places however the log sheet did help to make it a little bit faster. The actual editing of the production was easy as most of the shot’s were filmed in order however I had to replace the second shot as the one that I thought was ok was actually to fast so I had to get a bogus shot that I didn’t want to use and put it in the other shots place. I also found that the sequence of scenes didn’t flow alto so I had to put in fades to make it look like time had past. Over all I found this project to go very well and I am happy with my overall finished version one thing I may have changed was the actor and making sure that I made flow better so I didn’t have to put in the fades.