Feedback On My Short Film

 

The first film in Aice Media was a great experience I was able to learn how important camera angles are for storytelling, and especially that audio is key!  The biggest problem we had in my groups film was the loss of audio. When filming in public locations it is important to understand that if the background sound outside does not seem so loud when filming, when you watch it will be the main audio in the clip.

 Finding the perfect location that fits the exact image I had in my brain was a very fulfilling experience while filming. Seeing how I could manipulate the camera to create the perfect scene that matches again what I have in mind. While the filming angles and connections of the scenes were well developed but without audio, they seem a bit lack luster. When it was time for the editing that was definitely the hardest part. A combination of the Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials as well as Google searches aided my group in the creation of our film. 

There were much troubleshooting issues that went on with the editing of our project, from how to upload our clips, how to create the credits section and the most important the audio issue. 

The Curse Of Shenandoah

 The first film in Aice Media was a great experience I was able to learn how important camera angles are for storytelling, and especially that audio is key! The biggest problem we had in my groups film was the loss of audio. While the filming angles and connections of the scenes were well developed but without audio, they seem a bit lack luster. What I enjoyed the most in this filming process was the scouting locations and filming around the school. Finding the perfect location that fits the exact image I had in my brain was a very fulfilling experience while filming. When it was time for the editing that was definitely the hardest part. A combination of the Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials as well as Google searches aided my group in the creation of our film. There was much troubleshooting issues that went on with the editing of our project, from how to upload our clips, how to create the credits section and most important the audio issue. 

My film group consisted of 4 other students in which we all had different tasks. These tasks were 

-Director

-Cameraperson

-Actor

-Editor

-Writer/Storyboards

-Audio

-Lighting

-Location Scout

-Props/Costumes

-Marketing

Out of these tasks I participated as an Actor, Editor, Lighting, and Location Scout. As an actor with one other member of my group we had to practice our dialogue and our movements for once we started filming. Being an editor consisted of working on Adobe Premiere Pro, placing the clips on Premiere Pro, adding them together and transitioning. Lighting also had to do with our editing process as we filmed in school, we could not control the lighting this actually aided us in creating a creative mindset, so we were able to adapt. Instead, we used the exposure on our I-Phone turning it down to make the scene darker as well as fixing the lighting of some scenes through Adobe's color system. As a location scout again by filming in school we chose different buildings and different hallways that we found to match the ambience we were looking for.

Storyboarding

 In class we learned about storyboarding, its use, and importance. Storyboarding in the filming process is the creation of the first visual script to your film. Sketched drawings of the shots you plan on using in your film including, the setting, characters, and props. Another huge part is the notes on how you plan to use the camera angles, lighting, framing and dialogue.

- A Storyboard should always include -

• Scene/Shot number
• Camera directions
• Dialogue
• Framing

- Techniques -

When it comes to camera movement symbols like arrows for example are used to demonstrate this movement. Whether it be, just moving across the frame, zooming in or tilting arrows are a great tool used by filmmakers to create their storyboard.

Use of color is another tool used in creating a storyboard, primarily red and blue. To separate the types of movements in the scene they can be differentiated with the use of blue ink used to show camera movement and red ink used to show character/object movement.

                                           

-Why use a Storyboard-

These storyboards serve as a crucial, physical visual of how your film is going to turn out before you actually take a camera and go film! If a filmmaker is not sure how a certain framing, movement, etc. will work then the storyboard is where they will find out. Giving time to figure out the perfect shots as well as saving time avoiding reshooting.