UPLOADING PROMBLEMS CONTINUE...

We have got problems uploading (again)however this time it’s that we the group can all watch the recorded scenes on the capture window in Final Cut Express(FCE) but however once you click on the capture to actually upload the work to the Mac it causes a problem this is
1. You can only capture two second of the clip at a time and the actually record amount of film which we did is nineteen minutes of recording so the whole process is long and very time consuming.
2. This is contrasting to the first time we tried to upload work to the Macs and we had a huge seven minute clip and digesting that into each shots which is also a long process
So alot of time has been wasted on the whole upload side of the trailer and the deadline is getting closer and closer.

So the action we might have to take is
· Record the scene again.
· Change the tape due to fault.
· Take each two second clip and join them togetour.

Photgraphs of filming part 2.........................

This photographs shows the group of girls talking about "Flimclub"

This photgraph shows sam and suhail fixing the camera to get different angles.

This photograph shows the Cu of Flimclub poster made by Hina

This photograph shows Suhail and me talking about what angle is needed for the shot

and finally this show shows the M-E-S of the classroom.We took a few photographs to evident our group’s Second part of our filming and each group member role in the trailer. so on Wednesday the 25th of November as a group we decided to complete the remaining part of the trailer inside college. So we have the following scenes
1. The corridor scene(Photo is above)=so we completed the variety of shot so we had a Close up of the poster and furthermore a group of girls talking about the film club. Also we had a few tracking shot and a track of the popular boy going up to the group of girls.
2. The classroom scene =we had Sam as our teacher so he did his introduction to the coursework and welcomed the excited junior filmmakers. So we had Sam in a variety of position so we could choose the best place for him to stand.

Final part of Filming

Yesterday our group did some filming, the location of the shots were in the media classroom and the corridor outside it.
The Classroom Scene=
For this scene we had to have a full classroom of student fillers which would make the whole atmosphere of the classroom, so the group had brought alot of volunteer to just play student. Furthermore Sam did his part of the film club teacher and introduced the whole film club and the coursework. The group did this scene in four different ways which were
1. Close up of teacher face.
2. Medium shot of teacher.
3. Wide Shot of the teacher.
4. A variety of different point where the teacher is going to stand.
Further we shot some close up of some students so the group has a variety of cuts to add to the trailer.
The Corridor Scene=
So for this scene we firstly did close up of the actual poster so we have a variety of shots, then moving on we had a group of girls looking and talking about the film clip and then the next shot is when the popular boy come up to the girls and ask them about “if they are going”and “is the popular girl going”.

Final part of Filming/Meeting

Today after college our group are going to try and completed the rest of filming for our trailer. This includes all the college scenes and some outside establishing shots of the college building. The Remainder of the filming is going to be
1. The Mac Room.
2. The Other media room (1CN04).
3. The Entrance/Quad.
4. The staircase.

Furthermore we have a teacher for the classroom scene which is Sam, so the group has came up with an initial script but however I personally believe as Sam is a teacher it would look more realistic and natural to have him improvise the script and pretended he giving normal students a coursework. Also Sam role in the trailer is going to be the teacher of the film club, so he is going to give the whole club a project on “The world at your doorstep”. So this is the initial part of our trailer. Also today is the annual meeting so we are going to talk about the actual constructing of the movie trailer and how we all going to make time to help with the editing of the actual trailer. So the meeting should be taking place after our filming has stop (approximately around 4-5pm)

Finally if all the Filming is not completed i can completed the remaining shot of the popular boy(ME)uploading the work due to it only a few shots and the toilet scene if need be.

Strengths and Weakness of the group

Strengths:

• The whole group is dedicated to their roles so for example Hina has produced additional posters design for our trailer to add a more realistic and authentic feel to the whole trailer. Furthermore also Suhail has taken a key part in the camera department by having a few unconventional scenes like running through the tree following the popular boy, so this adds speed to the shot.
• The group are coming up with ideas throughout the whole production so the creative skills from the group are always trying to improve the trailer on a daily rate. For example we all wanted to add more shots to our trailer and the group want to include just the best and more eye catching shot to attract the viewer.
• The group was excellent on a first filming session, so the group worked well even through bad weather condition and everybody was on time and ready to give the best so I commend the group for their attitude.
  Weaknesses:
• The group was been working hard but I want to highlight that the organising need slight improving in accordance to the work is not in one place. so to improve we need to collect all the work have keep it in one place so the accessibility to the work is more quicker and faster
• Another problem I would like to comment on is the cast. The problem we had with cast is that many of them have slight or tight schedule so they can only record for a set amount of time, so this was a problem because we had to reshot some shots and the cast was not to happy.

Here are some pictures of our group filming

These photograph are evidence of our production has started and we need to finish

Problem with the uploading our work

We had filmed a main scene in the park and wanted to upload our work to Final Cut Express (FCE) furthermore we encounter a few problems during this process these are
1. We captured all of our video into a SEVEN MINUTE CLIP when we uploaded our work to FCE
This was our first problem because the clip is a whole seven minutes long so the long process of finding each individual shot and labelling it up and the dock would waste valuable time.
2. From this experience we need to re-upload the work to FCE and capture each shot by pressing ESC on the keyboard while capturing each individual shot.
By re-uploading our work on FCE we would have each individual shot labelled up and the process of putting each clip in the order according to our step outline would be alot easier and faster.

Start of the Fliming

As a group, we booked out our camera equipment on Friday 13th November to start filming our trailer starting from Saturday 14th November. We filmed the main scene which is in the cannon hill park and starting to complete each shot from the step outline, also adding more shots due to they might be needed in the near future.
We had a variety of shots and angles for example

· Low angle of the Group walking around in the park.
· High angle of the girl being dragged to focus on her Legs mainly
· Cu of the girl faces to show her expression.
· Panning to establish the setting which is in the park
· Ls to show the main boy running to find the girl
· Tracking the main boy as his running to show urgency and speed of the clip.

Each person in our group had a specific role in the production these were
Raza-The main Boy (protagonist)
Uzma –The main Girl (protagonist)
Suhail-The camera
Hina & Sameria-They both had the script and screenplay (Co-producers) and giving screen directions

Finally the group took photographs to further prove our filming took place.

Filming

On Saturday morning our group are hopefully going to record all the park scene in Cannon hill park, Furthermore during next week try to get the remainder of filming done which would only be leaving the Inside college shots eg.

1. Uploading of the work
2. The teacher giving deadlines
3. the inside class shots
4. Popular guy being questioned by people over the murder
5. The beating up scene in the toilet where the popular boy spots the distinctive laces

So we have enough time to edit the video.due to this is a lengthy process

so filming=14th-15th park scenes.

the rest from the week starting Tuesday the 17th November.

Adding Shots

Due to the shortage of shot which the group have discussed and needs further amendments. The following shot has been added to the trailer.

The Park

1. Establishing shots for the whole setting in the park.
2. CU of the wildlife so you add it to the documentary style filming.
3. MS of the whole group having discussion about the whole project.
4. Start of the Documentary-Slight introduction if needed.

Uploading the work

1. Cu of switching the computer on.
2. Ms of the computer screen.
3. Ws -MS of the popular boy taking to his Friends in the classroom
4. The popular boy proving his innocence.
5. Cu of the boys hand shaking showing fear and anxiety.
6. A newspaper prop so everybody is talking about it in school and makes the popular boy behave differently

Step Outline For Our Trailer

Step outline for our Trailer
1. WS.
2. CU.
3. MS TO CU.
4. MS.(Spherical movement)
5. OVS.
6. WS
7. MS TO CU
8. MS( Track in and out)
9. CU TO MS
10. CU
11. MONTAGE (The speed is going be fast for these individual shots)
i. WS
ii. MS
iii. CU

12. MS
13. CU of computer screen
14. CU
15. Montage (Each clip is off another person-police,parents etc questioning the boy)
i. MS
ii. MS
iii. MS

16. MS
17. CU