Planning edit work shop and Evaluation (single)

Introduction to edit work shop

In this blog i will describe all the planning work and describe step by step what I did and I also show my shot list and storyboard so it gives better understanding. We were asked to create an video which had specific camera techniques.

Shooting list

The shot list shows all the camera shots and helps us know what to do on the day and we also plan which bits we are going to have music and we write the script if there is dialogue in the video.

storyboard 

These are storyboards which we done so gives us an rough idea what to do in the production stage and it also helps us remember what shots to record. There are to techniques we had to use, that was match on action and shot reverse shot. we used match on action for example in the storyboard we see the police drop the files but then we have another shot of it falling on the desk, we also used shot reverse shot when the police officer and criminal where talking together.

We used various camera shots, we used an establishing shot because we wanted to show the scenery and setting this helps the audience understand where the video is taking place. Another shot we used was a long shot of the police officer as we wanted to show the person coming in and long shot helps us show the action, we also used mid show to show the upper body and we wanted to show the action  as the police officer drops the file. Another camera shot we used is close up to show something in detail for example we used a close up to show the file dropping. We used over the shoulder shot to show what the reaction of the actor.

Mise en scene was a big part as we had to dress the actors right so it made sense for example in the video you would see the criminal we made the actor wear a hoodie to connote that his the criminal and we also done the establishing shot of the police station to make the audience know where its taking place. We used both artificial and natural lighting because we thought it may make it more realistic, we also turned a school office into a interview room as we thought that it was more realistic because there was a desk. we also used one prop which was the knife as we wanted to add humor to the video because usually in a police station the criminal does not carry any weapons.

Music

The music i have chosen to use is from a program called The Bill , The Bill is a police program so the theme song would be relevant to my video as the video i have done is about police interrogation.

Production logo, Titles and Credits

This is our production logo we have chosen we called it ABI studio, ABI is the first letter of our names for example A stands for Asad, B  stands for Bleu and I stands for Ismail. Asad and Bleu are the people who i worked with for this project and we all decided on this production logo we specifically liked the color scheme we used and we thought we would be unique as we made an image of a boy sitting on a bird.

Titles

This is the title of our video we have chosen this theme color because that matches our logo and credits, we wanted dark colors because we wanted to keep it original and we liked the color scheme as a group and we also wanted it to match the logo and credits.

This is the credits, we choose this as in most video's this design is used and we wanted it to be traditional and we liked the color scheme and in the credits we have listed who done what and who it was created by.

Evaluation 

This is an evaluation on what we did for the edit workshop we were asked to create a video which had which didn’t break the 180 degree rule and had to have specific camera technique for example we had to have match on action and a shot reverse shot we also had to use the rule of thirds.

In the first version of the film of the video we broke the 180 degree rule twice, as we were editing we decided to re-record specific scene’s as we wanted the video to be perfect. We used the rule of thirds successfully as we tried are best to do so. In the video we have used match of action as we see the police officer drop the files then we have another shot of it falling on the table.

During the production we had struggles when to record because we all had different lessons which meant we had to record during media or after school, however we able to keep on track as we finished the pre- production work early which meant we had more time and during production we lacked space in the room so meant that the camera man didn’t have enough space to get the best footage, so I would defiantly think about the location space.

During the post- production we faced many challenges for example we found out that some shots were not long enough and some shot won't cleared to well, I also had problems with the sound as every time I edited the video clip the sound would go which meant me losing all the sound this meant that I had to start again because there was sound on the original video’s. If I did edit again I would make sure that during production we film longer as I learned that you can never record enough.

Overall the strengths were we good with time and we worked will in a team and we were able to see the faults and solve them, in our team we all gave opinion and we always respected each other thoughts. I think i would like working in this group as i think we worked fast and quick.

Overall as a team we have many weaknesses for example we need to make sure next time that we record in a place where there is more than enough space and I recommend that you see your work in after you done it because we made a mistake not seeing are footage before editing, we could have saved a lot of time.

Overall I think making the video long adds more meaning to the video, I would also record in a room which is not as crowded and there needs to be space for the camera man to record specific shot. Overall as team we worked well and we had good communication skills,