Possible Alternatives

We could have chosen to do a magazine article, a newspaper article(print), a website or even a radio clip, but instead we thought it would be best to do a video clip.
I personally didn't want to do a magazine because i did that last year and i want to try something different. A newspaper article we thought to be a fairly restricted part of the media, as it would of had to be a story and pretty much just writing. A radio clip we thought again to be very restricted, due to the fact it is only auditory. It is also hard to put together something that is just auditory. A website could have worked quite well, but again we believed to be very restricted in comparison to a video clip/short piece of film.
We have decided to do a video clip because it was the most open what we thought to be the type of media most suitable to what we want to do. The school have also provided us with video cameras for us to film with, which are very simple but effective to use. The school also has the correct editing programs for us to put together a decent piece of film.

Planning - team members

We started off by choosing a team leader. We decided to choose James he naturally leads and helps structure everything together. We also chose James to do the camera work, as he seemed to be a lot better at doing it than everyone else.
We decided on Tim being the one who does the editing, as he is the best at using editing programs.
I will help with the editing and the camera work, and will also be doing all of the artistic stuff and coming up with lots of ideas.

Planning - problems encountered with preliminary exercise

After we finished the preliminary task, we went through the video properly to find any mistakes, and what we could make better for the proper filming.

The first issue we came across was that at the very start of the filming, where we had the actor pausing in a ready position, we didn’t cut out about 3 seconds of him standing there doing nothing. Next time we do the editing I will be very aware of any unneeded film as it stops it flowing as well.

Another problem we encountered was that we had tried to cut out some of the sound throughout the beginning, which had blanked out the knocking of the door, which was actually quite important and had ‘ruffled’ the sound in part of it. When we do this properly we will make sure there will be no unneeded sound while we are filming, rather than trying to cut it out in the editing.

There was also a major problem; at the beginning of the dialogue, I look at the camera, which makes it seem rather off putting when watching it and was a problem we only noticed after watching it through. This has helped me realise to not look at the camera at any stage, even if I am not sure whether it has started filming yet or not.

I have found this exercise very helpful and has made me very aware now of problems we can encounter when doing the proper filming and I am sure we will make no where near the kind of mistakes we made in this exercise.

The link to the preliminary task video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/funkylemon234?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/gaymVs9IcY8