28th August Filming with my two borthers

On this date, I shot the scene with my two brothers down in my local brook.

This I thought went very well. There were a couple of times where there was wind interference and background noise but other than that it went very well. During that time we decided to film actual practise shots, with the two actors holding the scripts and saying their lines. Also, when there was a shot of just one of the actors, we decided it would help them by the other actor walk beside them, holding the script infront of them, out of angle. This helps because the actor actually has to look at the other actor because its conversational scene.

For editing, this also went very well. There were times where I had to increase the volume so I can hear their lines. For the music, I chose a particular track and cut some of it out because I thought it sounded a bit too dramatic for the scene, so I chose the best part of the track.

My next day of filming will be tomorrow afternoon. This will be the last scene I shoot

Editing

While shooting the film. I am also editing what I shot

Editing is going very well sofar. I have learned more skills on changing the colour on the clip of the film because I looked back on the previous clips and the colours were different. So for continuity reasons, I changed these colours to make them similar to the previous ones. I did this by using Colour Change on the Video Effects icon. How to make this work was that I clicked on the Video Effects icon and found Colour Change and dragged this icon onto the clip. There are many different dials you can use to change colour. I chose the dial to add orange tinge. This came out successfully after using this.

 I also added the music to the film. Its working well sofar, but there may be changes to the music at one point but its working sofar

Filming the short drama. Now titled 'It Takes Time'

Recently I have been very busy filming the short drama I was intending on doing.

2nd of August

This is the date I started filming. The day went very well. But the thing I needed to improve was to keep focused. I filmed the first scene and the beginning of another. I found that I'm not going to shoot this film in order because scenes change from the bedroom, down the road near my house and the brook et. So we all figured that I shoot all the bedroom scenes together. Here are some photos of the shoot:

5th August

This is the second day of shooting. This I thought went much better because we all kept focused more. I needed to re shoot some angles because my younger brother had a hair cut, which means bad continuity. So the re filming went well and we finished another scene.

8th August

This day, I filmed a scene with my younger brother, cooking food in the kitchen for his mother. This went very well. A lot of the scene I did in one take. I filmed this with may different angles. I'm afraid I forgot to take photos of this shoot.


9th August

Third day of shooting. This is when I shot the last scene. Went very successfully. The last angle, I had to track very smoothly. Since I didn't have a dolly, we thought of an alternative. We tipped a shelving unit to its side, near the actor I wanted to film, so I can smoothly move the camera. To help this, we put a tea towel underneath for the smooth track.

Sorry for the late update

The equipment for my films are now collected and ready for use. Had connection problems to the computer but now it is sorted.

Recently, I have used the camera to shoot my younger brother's sports day event at his school, which was a success. Nearly finished the editing.

I have also filmed My younger brother's play and slide shows of the student's works. This was challenging because I constantly help the camera. This has got a few shakes, but hey that's the beauty of editing.

I have now finished the script of my drama and now doing amendments and preparing for filming.

For my horror, ideas are coming into place but concentration is needed on my drama first.

My new fun video and other plans for projets

Recently, I have made another video for fun. This time, it's a small tribute to the horror movie icons I love. The link to the video is down below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezDjMZM6vrE

I am also writing a script on Drama film I'm planning on making. The story is about a young boy taking care of his mother, who suffers agoraphobia and paranoia. Treatment and theropy have not worked, so the young boy tries to help her himself.

I haven't come up with an idea for my Horror film yet. I'm concentrating on my Drama. Then I'll move to the next one. 

My Location Scout for my summer project

One day, my older brother came home from walking our dog and said to me, he went to a large, abandoned quarry with many run down where houses. He said it would be perfect for a film location and wanted to take me there at one point.

I recently went down there and I have to say that there are possibilities that I can film down there. I have to go with my brother's opinion, it's fantastic. I now have to start thinking of what to film there.

Here are some images of the location I took with my camera:

 

My Showreel of Videos and Other Works

This a short drama film that I made with a team. The story is about a self centred man, called Dan, meeting a tramp around the same age as him, at a quiet area in the town. The tramp's name is Joe and all he wants is someone to talk to. Dan refuses at first, so Joe makes him listen to his story of why and what it's like to be homeless. Please watch if you want to know the outcome :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSYmoPfYnJQ
This is the link to my latest horror film I made. Starring my little brother and his friend. See what you think.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uDFa_LEMH4&feature=g-upl

This link goes to a video I edited for fun. It is a collection of horror films that I've seen and I'm a huge fan of. I edited it by collecting the film trailers and edited them to suit the video I wanted. I cut out the sound of the films and put in a heavey metal soundtrack over them. Enjoy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySH7p18Tee8&feature=g-upl

This is a link to an company ident I created for my films. I used After Effects to create this. It was very challenging but I had alot of help through this. I feel I need to learn After Effects more. Hopefully you'll like it :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buTL4IgzMhE&feature=g-upl

This is a link to a video I edited for Argos because they were fundraising for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity. I had footage of the Argos staff, doing activities to raise money. For example a buffet, nurf gun practising and playing on the Nintendo Wii on Wii Dance etc.

http://vimeo.com/41548742

This is the link to the final edited video of the music videos we shot for Argos for their charity.






This is one of my film logos I created on Photoshop.




This is my DVD cover I created of one of my films I made. This was also done on Photoshop.