8 shot journey evaluation

Evaluation

My 8 shot journeys was about someone being late to college. Before we made out 8 shot journeys we had to make a storyboard. The storyboard for my 8 shot journeys contains 8 shots. Its shows the journey of the person being late for college and, them walking through the park to get there.  I have used a number of different shot types to show what the person was doing. For example i used a very long shot when she was coming down the stairs; I used this because it shows her whole body to show that she was rushing. I then used a close up when she had got to college to show that she was glad to be there. I have used many different shots so it doesn’t make the piece boring and keeps the person watching interested in what is going on. On my storyboard each frame has a piece of information with it which tells people what the person is doing , where the camera is positioned and what side the person enters and leaves from. This information is important to directors so they can just pick a story board up and they would know what to do without asking the person what is going on. I have also drawn the picture on my storyboard to look like what the scene does, this is also done for the director she they know where to shoot the frames.

Before shooting my 8 shot journey, we had to stripe the tape, we were using. We had to do this to make sure the tape was working and so it creates a continuous time code. While shooting my 8 shot journeys i used a tripod. There is a big benefit from using the tripods as it made the footage that i shot better quality, as it stopped the camera from shaking because if i had filmed it while holding the camera the footage would be moving. In our recording we had to record handles for each frame we shot. We had to do this because it would make it easier to edit when we had finished filming. On one of frames i recorded two shots of, as i thought the footage wasn’t close enough in the first shot. While recording i encounter one problem, which i managed to fix. This problem was when we had striped the tape we forgot to rewind the tape back, so while we were filming the tape went blank and we had to go back film it all again.

After filming we had to get ready to edit our filming. We had to enter information into a log in sheet. On this sheet we had to enter the time code that each frame started from and ended with. The sheet also included the shot size, location and short description of what was happening, a comment about the shot and what shots we were using. The information on this sheet made it easier for when we had to start editing. Time code is the time used to film each frame. This also makes it easier when coming to editing as you can just enter in the timing place the time of what you want to keep.

When editing out 8 shot journeys we used a programme called “final cut pro” on the apple Mac computers. From editing some of the frames it made it my final piece so it was in a sequence. While editing i was able to get rid of bits I didn’t need. For example i had her turn around at the end of one shot, which she wasn’t meant to do but i was able to edit it out. I was able to select the best pieces of each frame to put into my final cut. Before placing the frames onto a timeline it rimed the beginnings and ends of each shot, so i could get rid of the handles that i had put on. From editing my frames all of my 8 shots were in form and completed in a sequence. If i was to do it again i would change a few things, i would add longer handle as it did make it a bit harder when editing. I would also use a few more different shots so it makes it more exciting.