Preliminary Task

Pre-Production

Before we started to film the Preliminary task myself and Matt created a shot list whilst working with josh and Phil who created the story board, with these two documents in place we scouted our location which was a room in the sixth form media block that lead straight of a well-lit corridor this helped to lighten the work load as no more artificial light was needed.

This is our shot List for the task this shows every shot in the task and gives a brief description on what the shot includes.

Shot Number	Shot Type	Notes
1	Establishing Shot	Point of view shot down corridor
2	Low angle head shot	Shot of the good guy
3	Close Up	Close up of guys hand on the door handle
4	Long shot	of good guy entering room
5	Over Shoulder shot	From good guys perspective
6	2 Shot	Good Guy Walking towards the Ghost
7	High Angle Mid Shot	of Ghost
8	Low angle Reverse shot	of good guy
9 &10	Shot Reverse Shot	Exchange of dialogue
11	Mid shot	Computers turning off
12	Mid Low angle	Looking at good guy
13	Mid shot	Computers turning off
14	Mid shot Point of view	Looking at ghost fading out

This is our Storyboard this shows the shots in a visual way helping the camera man and director coordinate the shots.

Production

When we started filming josh was cast as one of the actors and Phil as well as altering the light angle on actors creating light and dark areas cast another student in to play the role of the ghost, matt took the role of camera man filming all the shots and I took the role of director coordinating shots with the use of slates to make the editing stage easier as each shot is numbered and accounts the number of takes taken,I also ensured the camera man was happy with the shot before filming. During Filming some alterations were made to the direction of shots and the shot size these decisions were made due to the look and feel of the original shots they did not fulfil the look and feel wanted to set the scene.

 During the filming the sound quality was not as good as expected when we uploaded the footage to the computer, to prevent this problem next time we will record the sound separately using an external boom microphone instead of the cameras internal microphone this will prevent poor quality sound.

The light in the footage is not to a high standard and does not light the actors face evenly in every shot this is because we only used the artificial lights in the room this creates uneven shadows as the light only comes from above the actor, this can be resolved next time with the use of more artificial lights in the form of LED 56 par cans this will allow us to create any colour in the spectrum of light allowing us to create a variety of moods lighting the actor from various angles.

Post Production

During the editing stage all four of us played a part in the editing we took it in turns to edit a section of the clip, we then discussed possible improvements to each other’s work whilst following the shot list and storyboard to the letter, after editing of the shots was complete and effects were added we then had to find a suitable sound track we spent a lot of time finding the right tack try and help tell the story, we also added sound effects to help illustrate what was happening in the shot.

This screen shot shows the editing process and the audio mixing needed to balance the dialogue and diagetic sound against the non diagetic sound.

When the clip was finished we rendered the clip to a high standard to give the clip a more professional feel and to allow the audience to view the clip the way it was shot to allow them to feel involved in the narrative.

This screen shot shows the rendering screen showing how we rendered the clip.

This is the our finished clip.