Film Development (fig 2.d)

Before we filmed we made these notes on how to use a camera:

· Book camera

· Also given a tape – my responsibility – kept to end of editing

· Put tape in camera – press eject button – put tape in right way round in – and close the mechanism with the button - Close the case

· Camera needs to be fully charged – press the green button and flick to camera – remove lens cap with switch

· Re wind tape by setting camera to play and rewind

· Red dot means recording make sure not recoding every thing

· Don’t rewind tape on as it will lose the time code – and will take forever to up load

· Recoding – press record – count down ten seconds – stop counting out loud at 4 and mouth it – after scene wait a couple of seconds to make sure it’s done

· Don’t zoom - move closer

· Rewind at the end

· Return camera by date agreed

We started doing work on the film by actually filming the shots we would need. The first thing we filmed was the musician, we set up the shots using a tripod and we used some extra lights to brighten the shots. We started by filming a long shot of our musician, this was our base shot that we would sync up with the song, we had the musician play the song all the way through for this shot. Next we rearranged the camera for a straight up close up, we then slightly adjusted the lights, then again filmed the entire song through. Next we filmed a side on shot of the musician face, again we adjusted the lights and again we filmed the entire song. The last two shot of the musician where close ups of his hands, one strumming and one playing the cords, for each of these we used the same lighting for each shot, as the musician was growing tied at this time we only shot a short section of the song around a verse as we can reuse the shots.

The next day we filmed the actor and the main body of the video. We started, as said in the schedule, meeting the actor at the drill hall, we arrived a little early to double check we were allowed the Bar we then set up the lights and met our actor, I was playing the other roll in the scene so we set up the establishing shot and filmed it, next we filmed a close up of the actors face, moving the lights to show his face, we then moved the light and shot the close ups of my face. We then moved to our next location which you can see in Fig 2.c, we started by shooting the long shot of our actor on the bench, before then shooting the two shots we would overlay to create the ghostly sequence, we had to do this twice as the first time we filmed I was the only person who set off when all the filming time, next we filmed the close up of the actors eyes before moving to the band stand and filming the actor move his head and a POV pan, these last two shots were not in the initial plans and where shot if we needed any other shots for the video. We didn’t set the lights up for this shot as we were outside and there was nowhere to plug them in.

Next we went to the stone bow and filmed the shots there, these didn’t turn out to well as people kept walking in front of the camera so we relocated to the cathedral and filmed there. These where all setup exactly the same as only the actor moves the camera stays still. Again we didn’t use the lights as we were outside. The next shots were also outside so we didn’t use the lights we, shot most of these shots from the other side of the road for safety, for each shot we set up the camera and then cued the actors. The last shots we filmed where inside so again we set the lights up, and filmed them we had the actor maintain the same position for all of the shots and we moved around him. The last thing we filmed was the final shot of the film with the actor lowering his head towards the camera, this corresponded with the last shot we had of the singer.

Next we started the editing the film these notes on how we made the film:

· Open final cut pro,

· Create a file with full name – save in to students file,

· Quit final cut pro (open from documents from now on)

· Plug camera in then go to file login capture,

· A window opens – press play go to capture now,

· Press the escape key – switch camera off – close the window – footage is in the untitled folder in the film tags – save the project,

· Import music – open the bridge application – go to computer – open music holding device – copy track and paste in to my folder –remove device and close bridge,

· Import the music through – file, input, files – choose the track - now in final cut,

· Take audio directly in right at the bottom about track 7-8 – then lock it so that the track can’t be damaged,

· Sync the lead singer – take the singer sections and paste them in to video one bar –when in sync take the audio off,

· Move the sections of film from the imported film and place them on the time line, make sure these are also synced up to the song if they need to be,

· After all shots are in place add the effects to the film

This is how we did our editing for our film there were a few notable changes from our initial plan:

We changed a few things from the initial plans, the main thing we changed was the sequences were we would have a lot of shots overlapping each other, as we couldn’t make it fit time it needed to and the layering of the film didn’t look to good, so we put each shot after each other and had them fade together. We also added some shots of the actor and musician at the end to keep the pace going and so it wasn’t just one long shot. We showed it to the teacher and he gave us a few simple changes of adding a few new shots to keep the pace going. We also added some more shots of the singer and actors to make the cuts faster and more like a real music video.