Work So Far (Research and Planning)

Week 1
During the first week I was introduced to the cameras and tripods and how to set them up was explained to the class. We also were told just what the course would cover and how we would manage to do everything required.

Week 2
In the second week the class learned about what the continuity task was and what was needed to complete it. We watched several continuity videos on Youtube and gave our opinions of them. in the next lesson we started to look at camera shot, angles and movement. After this we experimented with all the different types of shots we had learned about using both the cameras and tripods. Lastly during that week we were introduced to iMovie on the Macs had we learned how to upload video.

Week 3
We watched some more continuity tasks and this time discussed which shots were used and we were told what the 180 degree rule was as well as match on action and the 10s rule for editing sequences. We started on our own continuity task by drawing up the story board and shot list in order of what would be shot first.

Week 4
In week 4 we watched to films to understand different film language terms. these films were: Making a Video and The Language of Film. We then finished the storyboard and started filming the task itself. After we had filmed our clips we uploaded them onto iMovie and started editing. at the end of this week we started posting our blogs.

Week 5
We shot our continuity sequence this week and uploaded the shots we had filmed to iMovie ready for editing the next lesson.

Week 6
This week we shot the extra shot needed for the continuity sequence, edited our shots and compiled them into a short movie lasting about a minute. We used iMovie for this and finished within two hours of editing in the Mac room.

Week 7
During this week we did nothing because it was half term.

Week 8
When we came back after half term, a film producer, David Ball, came in to talk to us about the filming process in major films. He explained that everyone on the team during filming was as important as everyone else on the team.


Week 9




Week 10