Lighting and Track back

This week I have learnt some lighting and camera skills and things that we have to plan beforehand such as: floor planning- where actors stand, lights setting... etc. For example:

Theme: Interviewing someone

Place: Waverley Theatre

Theme: Track back of someone

Place: Graveyard 

The following is what we have done during the same, and I have added some text to explain what had happened.

Suppose to film...

We were supposed to film today, but our actor didn't up for it which screwed up our plan. Initially, we planned to film it before the easter holiday! Therefore, we can have time to improve if anything goes wrong. But everyone is going back home for the easter and the bank holiday- means 2weeks off. Now, we plan to film on the 03.05.2011


Initial plan:
"Hey tomorrow we can pick up the equipement between 4-4:30 so could some people come and help collect everything about 4-4:15ish and then maybe we could go set up and have a few practice runs at filming while we have the light and everything?
On Wednesday the flat is free from 1:30 so we can go and film when our seminar finishes.
Cheers!" 

End up:

"Ugggggghhh, I've been really screwed over, Lucy can't film tomorrow in the day either. I'm thinking we quickly try find a new actress or we are gonna be way behind our schedule. I'm really sorry guys, I thought she'd be more reliable but I guess not :("

Our Presentation and the first seminar with Phil

P.S. Editing effect video:

This is whatI want to create at the start. E.g. Introducing the actors.

There will be stop frame in our film and this is the style that I am looking for.

Fade in and fade out transaction. 

We were the first group presented, nervous! But Phil was happy about what we have done.

Moving Image… start today

This will be my last project of my year 1. It is about interpret a script- adapt into your own version. I am in a group of five which are:

Producer: Helen
Director: Natasha
Camera and Lighting: Chris
Sound design: Ajay
Editing:  Amanda (Me)

My role is consisting of raw camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics and special effects. Editors are skilled storytellers, charged with cutting hours and hours of shot together to create a cohesive story.

We have been given the script called “DOG”. The script is about a man who eats dog food due to having no food in his cupboards.

Brainstorming:
1. Depression, alcoholic

2. Brake in, eats food, crazy person, mental problem, mourning the loss of…

In the seminar, we discussed the script together and we thought the story is more about depression- a man trying to cope and mourn the loss of his dog.

Therefore, we decided the film is focusing on the girl rather than the story of a dog. We have started adapt the script to be a story about a girl using alcohol as a means of coping with the loss of a loved one or family member.

The initial idea that we got is the girl is attached to an object of sentimental value leaving the audience to guess who it belonged to, at the end she appears to have passed out on the sofa clinging to the sentimental object and a letter connected with it. We have replaced dog food for alcohol, sick instead of poo, passes out at the end instead of turing into a dog.

Also, this week I have learnt how to use celtex to edit the script which I found it quite useful, and our team are pretty organize we recorded what we discussed in the seminar. Therefore, everybody knows what stage we are at.

Example of our works: