Garage Band

For our 2nd piece we were not alloud to use a copyright theme tune therefore we used a programme (Garage Band) to create our own piece. It has a variety of instrument solo's from guitars to piano's to electronic sounds.
I worked with Josh Cat and Maz on garage band. Unfortunately we could not find any decent sounds for our piece. Using garage band will help in the future so we can easily create music.

Magazine Covers

We paired up to create a magazine cover and contents. Using a picture of somebody around the school taken from a mid-shot angle. We have to take 3 Colours, 3 Fonts and not too much writing into accountantcy while creating the cover for a magazine thats called 'Lutto's Latest'. I worked with Josh on this practical as we are similar and like the same things and colours.
After designing our cover and contents we went out to take a picture for the front cover. We went out to take a picture but were unsuccessful as we could not find anyone fit to have the picture of them taken.

Notes From Lessons

Character Roles
The Hero
The Villian
The Donor
The Dispatcher
The False Hero
The Helper
The Princess
Her Father


Sound
Dialogue Music/Soundtrack
Diagetic (Any sound that a character can hear on screen)
Non Diagetic (Any sound that a character can't hear on screen)

Mise-en-scene
All the visual details a film maker can include on screen

2nd practical

We and Josh decided to pair up with Cat and Maz to see if we could work with both genders. Together we worked well to produce a piece where Maz dumped Wez in a cafe scene.
The scene was suppose to be in the coffee shop but it was closed so we had to improvise and filmed it in one of the D.T rooms.

We used a variety of shots sticking to the 180 degree rule.
In the edits we mainly used fade in/outs we also tried to create a backing track but it didn't work well.
Overall i think it was a good team effort and i thought it was a change from having an all boy group. The film went smoothly but the edits was quite difficult.

1st practical practice

For our first practical we had to make a short clip with a variety of camera shots. i belived our group worked together well as we were all boys (4 boys). In group was Me, Jamie, Josh and Ben. We filmed many different shots involving 3 of us, a moped and a pigeon. Me and Josh then departed from Jamie and Ben so we could make seperate edits on imovie. On imovie Me and Josh cut down the scenes took out any outakes and used effects like fade in and fade out to make the clip run smoother. I liked our editing as it also had a backing track of 'thunderbirds are go' by Busted the reason this song went well with our clip was because the moped was moving so it went with the title "thunderbirds are go" as the title states something on the go. While filming Jamie did most of the camera shots while ben was the main character. We did a variety of shots in our piece such as.. point of view, mid-shot,close-up,extreme close-up,long shot,tracking shot,high angle shot etc..
Overall i think our film ran very smoothly and we all took part in the filming weather it was acting or filming.. I think we could improve the shots as we didnt do a high enough "high angle shot" and we also had to re-film the tracking shot many of times as we kept jerking the camera while moving it. Also i think our editing went well because the film ran smoothly and wasn't boring.. Ours was unique in a way that we had no sounds from filming we only had the sound track.