Preliminary Task

Preliminary task 
As an assignment where we had to film a short story about fear. We had a group discussion and we decided our story line. We then did some story boarding designing our story scene by scene so that when it came to acting and recording it we would know what we were doing.

Story boarding
When I was story boarding with my group I learnt that sketching is good and that it doesn't have to be neat and tidy. It just has to be understandable. We also had to put what shot type, what props we wanted to use and the type of effect we wanted to give. This gave us a real insight to what it would be like to record considering the amount of time we had to record.

Recording
Even though we had fun recording our short film when we had finished and were playing the scenes over again the next day we realised we didn't have enough camera angles; as a result we had to re-film the whole thing again. However as we had gained experience filming we knew what to do and it was quicker and easier to film. During the recording we had our props and we knew our lines off by heart. When we were recording we used different types of shots such as high angle, over the shoulder, mid shot and others.

Editing 
After we had finished recording we had to edit it on a programme called final cut. We had to click on all the clips we didn't want or select part of clips we didn't need and high light it in red so it wouldn't appear in the finished cut of the film. I then put the scenes we recorded into order to make sense and to give certain effects. We also shortened it to create more effect.

This is the link to my Preliminary task:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN15U1yYrTQ&safe=active