Practical Production: One minute Film

'PENalty'- (Takkl Productions,2016) 

The Production Process:

Pre Production:

• We had four lessons to plan , film and edit our one minute film clip , in pre production we decided what the basis of our film would be about which we opted for a thriller spoof about people who steal pens . 

• we made a storyboard which depicted what our film clip was based upon and the actions we would take in order to film the vision we had. 

• We decided who would do each role in the production , Katie played the pen theif, i played the victim where my pen was stolen and Aaron was the camera man and filmed what we produced and Tom cameoed in the clip also him and Kasper scouted for locations. 

• We also wrote a small script for the dialogue we used in our small film clip. 

• We then pitched our idea in order to receive the cameras to film.

Production:

• During the production of our clip , we had to quickly become adapted to using the camera as it was our first time, we had a tripod which allowed us to do panning shots which gave them a smoother edge in comparison to hand held shots which we used when following the victim running. 

• Whilst filming we encountered issues with lighting, when we stepped outside into the light it was harsh and the camera would not focus to concentrate the shot and make it clearer as it added a white edge and it was difficult to see  this affected some of our most comedic shots to complete our thriller spoof. 

• Also time hindered our filming schedule, which meant we couldn't film in all the locations we first planned.

• furthermore we went slightly over our one minute time.

Post Production:

• In our post production process we edited the footage we had filmed and put them together on the macs using final cut pro.

• It was the first time all of us had used this software before therefore it took us time to get used to how it worked, after this we imported our footage and began editing it so we used the useful parts that we needed.

• We then took audio of clips that we wanted to put music on top of which had our voices on that was not part of the film.

• We then put filters over scenes in order to make an atmosphere.

• Once we were satisfied with our one minute clip we uploaded it onto YouTube.

My Reflection:

• I believe that our 'one minute extract from a film' was extremely successful considering it was our first time planning, filming and editing.

• Also we have learnt straightaway we can improve for next time. E.G. making sure the camera lighting makes the shots visible.