Saturday 17 December 2011

Equipment


The Crane



Over the shoulder camera



The Dolly


We had a lesson where we focused on putting all of the cameras together and learnt how to use each of the apparatus. We had a look at the crane, the dolly and the over the shoulder camera. This lesson was vey useful because it enabled us to go out and use the cameras straight away. This was also a helpful lesson because it meant that we could start filming our opening sequences whenever we wanted.   

Monday 12 December 2011

Book of Eli



We were asked to re-create an opening act from the film 'The book of Eli'. We were given this task having not seen the actual film, this gave us a good idea to work from what was written down from a script for us to re-create, we did this in groups where we spread the roles of acting, filming and editing between us. As you can see, I had one of the acting roles. This task was helpful as it allowed us to explore the creative way from looking at a script.

Friday 9 December 2011

Target Audience Survey






As my target audience is a similar age to me, I decided to post a survey on my Facebook page in order to get some feedback from a reasonable number of people. The questions asked are published above. After a couple of hours of letting people answer my survey, the most common results that I obtained where, that they were mainly male withing the ages of 18-20 and the two most common favourite film genres were drama and comedy.
From these results, I was able to go away and think about what sort of genre I was going to base my film on, I had the choice between action/drama and comedy and in the end I decided to go for an actioned/drama based genre.