Finished preliminary task

Editing

  After we collected all of our footage as it managed to save properly this time we edited our preliminary task. To begin with we had over 2 and a half minutes worth of filming, and we managed to take it down to 1 minute 20. We deleted all of the footage that had any included mistakes or footage that we couldn't used and had re-filmed. After getting rid of all of the extra footage we went back and shortened a lot of the left over filming as at the beginning or end of some of the shots there was large gaps of silence or were slightly too long so we cropped it to if flowed better. We also got rid of the frame that was in our storyboards where we were gonna get a shot of the papers Paige had dropped before filming her picking them up.

Week 3

   
  This week our group started filming our preliminary task, on monday we had filmed half of our video but unfortunately our footage had been lost so we had to redo our filming and managed to complete all of the filming we needed.
   
  Whilst filming our preliminary task we all got the change to use the camera and film part of task. This gave us all a taste of what it will be like to film our actual AS task next year. Hannah was the first to use the camera and she filmed our establishing shot of the building to start off the video. Once we had set up the office we were using for the task the camera was given to paige as Hannah, Jasmine and I would all be in the scene. Paige filmed the match on match shot of me walking through the door into the office before changing the direction of the camera and facing it towards Jasmine and Hannah in a pan shot of the beginning of the argument, and an over the shoulder looking at me as Hannah asks for my opinion on the argument.

   After putting my hands up Jasmine then used the camera to film me walking out of the door pushing past Paige, as she walks through the door, effectively making her to drop the papers in her hands. Jasmine filmed a close up of the papers before showing Paige picking them up in a tilt. The camera was then passed on to me to finish the filming as i filmed the shot reverse shot of the argument and a wide/three person shot of paige laying the papers on the desk as Hannah and Jasmine came up with a solution to their problem which was where we ended our filming.

   Personally after seeing what we had filmed their was a lot that needed improving. Such as the length of the video as it was too long and their were a lot of shots that wed missed out that we could have used. But all in all i think the filming went very well especially for our first task, we worked well as a group allowing everyone to have a say and have some input into our preliminary task.
   Next lesson we will be going through all of our footage and editing out all of the irrelevant footage. We will also we going through it to check if we need to add any frames or re-film some of the footage that may have been left out.

Started filming

Week 2

This week we changed our week into notes as we had discussed it our preliminary discussion and turned those notes into storyboards. As a group we decided to change the ending from finishing the argument by someone leaving the room, to the co workers in the short video working things out after a phone call. We have now completed our story boards in full and we are ready to start filming next week. By having our storyboards we can see the clear structure we are going to follow to make it more straight forward when filming. We changed the ending to our preliminary task as we thought that it would make the video flow better and add a little humour to the end.

My Storyboards

Recorded discussion of our preliminary task

file:///Users/Student/Downloads/Media.m4a

This is the link to our discussion.

Notes For the Preliminary Task

Notes:

Story line:

                   This will be set at a workplace showing an argument between two co workers in an office. They are arguing about a work related problem that they both feel strongly about, soon after the discussion started it begins to get heated and turns into an argument. another one of there co workers walks into the room and get caught up in the argument so refuses to take sides so leaves pushing past the secretary making her drop all of her documents after she's picked them up, she walks into the office and tries to defuse the argument before it goes too far. One of the co workers still in the room has more valid points throughout the argument as the other can see she is not going to win the argument as her co worker has more authority that herself. So through anger walks out of the room slamming the door behind her. This is where the scene will finish.

Props:
Laptops, office equipment, chairs, tables and 'important' documents

Characters:
Eleanor- observer that walks into the room during the argument but walks back out so they cannot involve her in the their argument
Hannah and jasmine- are the two co workers arguing.
Paige- secretary that tries to defuse the argument before it goes too far.

My Group

My Group

The people i chose as my group members are: Hannah Bess, Jasmine Reagon-Welch and Paige Anderson. I chose these people because I know them fairly well so I can relate to them not just for the subject but from a personal level, we are all very hard working so I can guarantee that the jobs will be spread evenly.

Why I chose A level Media?

Why I chose A level media?

I chose A level media because I took the course in GCSE where in the other courses I chose I hadn't, also because I loved the freedom I had in the course as I could be as creative as I wanted. There are many reasons why I personally chose media one being the fact i wanted to understand more the media specifically music as it is something that i am very passionate about although i am also passionate about being able to use and cameras to show creative side. I also liked that fact that media included coursework which i find easier than i do exams as i can be more lenient and more creative with my work.