Wow! I'm really beginning to get excited for this project! This week we met three times before class to work on our project! I was away over reading break, as were several other group members, so we arranged to get together Sunday when we had recouped and regrouped and ready (if that's possible) to get back into school mode.
On Sunday afternoon, we came up with a goofy little skit and shot some scenes to edit of Krystal coming to school and then realizing once she got to class that it was cancelled. For the workshop we were supposed to capture a variety of shots so that we could play around with them in the in class iMovie tutorial to learn how to use the program before we edit! First we tried to get an overhead shot from a second floor window in Cornett of Krystal walking up to the building, including a panning shot of the field with Krystal walking towards the camera, then we attempted to get several long and medium shots of her walking up the stairs and walking up to the doors. We got a few close up shots of Krystal's face as she tried to open a set of doors, as well as an extreme close up of her hands as she tried to shake the doors open. We played around with getting a little bit of audio both on the camera, as well as on my phone in order to see how they both sounded. We attempted to get creative by trying a few more obscure shots, such as having Krystal walk up a flight of stairs while we shot from a flight/ two flights above her, her moving quickly with a blurred movement affect (this was accidental, but worked out I think), as well as trying to catch proper timing when using a phone for added affects (trying to not have two different times when looking at a phone's screen clock for inconsistent editing). We were trying to be conscious of camera movement --we didn't use a tripod, which was a mistake-- we didn't necessarily end up with a level plain when we tried to do panning shots, or we had different heights of bricks in the background or shakiness in our film from holding the camera by hand. Regardless of these flaws, we learned how to alter the white scale depending on the lights in the room/sun level outside which was good. Depending on where we film our interview with Chris this will be very important. We noticed when we went to his place (this will be discussed in the next post) that his work studio has overhead lights, which we are worried will make a humming sound on the camera, so we will have to see how that goes when we film B-roll on Tuesday!
We also worked on our treatment this week. We had never done this before and we found it was a little bit challenging to do before we met Chris because we were not sure how the film was going to fall into place so it was hard to map out in detail what was going to be taking place and what specific ideas would happen at what times, etc. What ended up being a good thing was that we didn't have to hand in our treatment at Thursday nights class like we were supposed to because after meeting with him there are clearly a few things that we will need to switch around!
(here is the link to the iMovie tutorial video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KHwiCTMyJE)
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