Film editing and outcome

So the filming did’t actually take that long considering i’ve only ever filmed once before in college. However what took the longest was all of the editing, especially as I am not very skilled at using the programmes for it at all! However I managed to get it all done at home which I think was a very good decision.

So the outcome…was far from perfect but I was please with what I had achieved considering my low level of skills for this area of work. My feedback, of course, was that it was too long by about 4 minutes! It also needs to be punchier and get the point across a little more. I agree with the majority of the feedback that I was given (there are a few other little feedback points which I haven’t written down) however i am very worried about being able to make this a very good piece of work. I am moderately confident in knowing ways in which I can improve it but I will need some technical help from the uni in adding these effects. I will definitely make changes to this project!

Storyboarding..

Once deciding on doing a film I began by drawing up a story board and some text that I wanted to include.

These are very rough and in hindsight I should have made them more detailed and included camera angles etc but I was on a tighter time schedule because I changed my proposal and company very last minute. However I was clear on what I wanted to film and what text I wanted to include into each scene.. which I have written down on another piece of paper. I started filming a scene with a uni friend however I was finding it very difficult to getting people to commit. Due to this pretty large problem I decided to book a train to go home for 3-4 days to film it all, knowing that it would get done.

Group Work

I began some of my contributing research by filming some human interaction secretly when I went back to Exeter for the weekend. I turned three of the videos into screen shots and analysed how the people interacted with each other in different scenarios..
This primary research in SCHUH, outside TESCO and in ZIZZI helped to get us really thinking about how people interacted and moved.

I also went onto recording overheard conversations so we could evaluate the visual and non visual side of interaction..

I wanted to find different ways of representing these non visual interactions visually.. So I began with trying to sense the emotion from each person and connecting a colour to the mood to make a type of colour-mood chart. I also picked up on the emotions from the other conversation and created a face collage to reflect this. This practical experimentation was what we needed to help us to visualise possible outcomes that might work well. I also feel that our group has been working really well together and I am enjoying it!