For our preliminary task, we had to ensure that our short included a shot/reverse shot scene between two people and several lines of dialogue - ensuring we did not break the 180 degree rule.
Due to time constraints on shooting (we had about 40 minutes), we chose to set our dialogue scenes inside an unused DT classroom. As with our Wilderness Woods short ‘PLAY’, we shot on the Canon 700D, with a 50mm f1.8 lens and the Rode VideoMic Pro. Ideally, we would have used a tripod also as some of our shots came out shaky when they could have been static. We also had to attempt to stabilise our final shot inside Premiere Pro using the ‘Warp Stabilizer’ tool, which reduced a significant amount of shake yet did not quite leave us with what we wanted.
The largest issue we had with production was probably not bringing the standard 18-55mm kit lens with us also, as we couldn’t get the long shot of the front of the classroom that we wanted, even after standing outside! We also could have benefitted potentially from a multi-camera setup of the conversation, so we could intercut them with greater precision as dialogue would be spoken at the same time on both of them.
The music we chose fitted well with the timing of our cuts preceding the conversation, and our second choice further reinforced the ‘thug life’ attitude we were trying to put across, and through our editing session we successfully applied a colour grade to our short too - with a change in colour temperature as Elliot embraces the ‘thug life’.
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ReplyDeleteSome lovely shots like the fan in the foreground shot and I like the slapstick section at the end. You have noted the weaknesses of the film so well done
ReplyDeletesorry boys, ignore the comment about editing process, that was the other filming task and you have done it very well
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