Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Our film is based around football hooliganism, we thought of this idea as we are very familiar with films such as 'Green Street 'and 'Football Factory', which we can get ideas from and relate too. It took us a fair amount of time to think about an idea for a film and we took a long hard think about the storyline for our film. However, eventually we came to a final decision as a group.
The group consists of myself who is a football hooligan, William Turner who is also a football Hooligan, Lyle Petts, who is an undercover police officer, and the narrator, and finally Conor O'Sullivan is the camera man.
We have not decided on names for our characters yet although i have decided on my characters name which is Stan Smith.
Our film is based around Lyle Petts, who is an undercover police officer, who is trying to get inside of the minds of football hooligans. The Arsenal firm are well known around the world for there riot acts and unsocial behaviour towards other football fans. Every police officer in the world has tried and failed to bring them down and now its Lyle's characters turn. Instead of being hasty and arresting them straight away, if the police officer gathers more infomation then he can send them down for longer. Eventually the under cover police officer finds out he has another side to him and forgets why he started the assignment in the first place and finds it hard to get out of the football hooligan world.
I am confident this opening to a film will be successful if we work hard as a team and listen to eachothers thoughts.
The group consists of myself who is a football hooligan, William Turner who is also a football Hooligan, Lyle Petts, who is an undercover police officer, and the narrator, and finally Conor O'Sullivan is the camera man.
We have not decided on names for our characters yet although i have decided on my characters name which is Stan Smith.
Our film is based around Lyle Petts, who is an undercover police officer, who is trying to get inside of the minds of football hooligans. The Arsenal firm are well known around the world for there riot acts and unsocial behaviour towards other football fans. Every police officer in the world has tried and failed to bring them down and now its Lyle's characters turn. Instead of being hasty and arresting them straight away, if the police officer gathers more infomation then he can send them down for longer. Eventually the under cover police officer finds out he has another side to him and forgets why he started the assignment in the first place and finds it hard to get out of the football hooligan world.
I am confident this opening to a film will be successful if we work hard as a team and listen to eachothers thoughts.
Monday, 9 November 2009
Preliminary Exercise Evaluation
The preliminary task was to create a video of somebody walking to a door, opening it, then walking across the room and then exchanging around five sentences of dialogue. I worked with Alice Haydock and Lyle Petts. Alice was on the camera, and myself and Lyle were exchanging dialogue. We chose Alice to be the camera man as she felt in herself she had good camera skills, whereas myself and Lyle felt confident to feature in the video.
Camera Work
We used many shots such as long shot, medium long shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, shot reverse shot, and reaction shot. The shots we took were steady because we used a tri-pod, they were also in focus. With our shots included the rule of thirds except maybe one shot.
The camera was also at a good height, we tried to make Lyle look more powerful in the way that when i was speaking i would slouch down slightly and look up to him. We also followed the 180o degree rule, this was the main thing we took into consideration whilst filming. i feel that Myself and Lyle were also visible the whole way through as we did not use zoom we just done the shots straight.
I also feel we got the eyeline match very good which is another positive. However i do feel there was one shot where muyself and Lyle's faces are barely in the screen. It was not like this when we filmed it but as we edited it the shot would not stay original and it kept cutting the edge off. We did not solve this problem in the end.
Editing
Our match on action i feel is perfect, it all flows, it does not look awkward and i will be looking for the same sort of match on action for my final piece. There are not any jump cuts, although there was one but we got around it by putting a clip of myself in between so you do not notice it.
I also feel that our shot reverse shot was excecuted very well, also the pace of the shots i feel are well timed, this is vital as you do not want some fast shots and some slow as it would not fit in together correctly.
The transitions are also invisivle, you do not want fancy transitions as it would make the video look childish.
On the whole i do not think that i would want to change any edits as i feel this was done in a good manner.
Sound/Mise en scene
The dialogue was clear and appropriate as we filmed in a classroom with only us three in there so there was not any interuptions.
The lightening i felt was good however it could have been better. Also when we originally filmed it we realised at the end that the blinds were up behind Lyle so you could not see him. Therefore we had to film all of our shots again. The setting was also appropriate.
I felt the team worked fairly hard, however i do think more effort could have been put in and i will think about this when it comes down to the main project. I also felt i contributed alot to the team with featuring in the film, contributing ideas for the dialogue and also helping Alice with the camera when she felt she had done something wrong.
Camera Work
We used many shots such as long shot, medium long shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, shot reverse shot, and reaction shot. The shots we took were steady because we used a tri-pod, they were also in focus. With our shots included the rule of thirds except maybe one shot.
The camera was also at a good height, we tried to make Lyle look more powerful in the way that when i was speaking i would slouch down slightly and look up to him. We also followed the 180o degree rule, this was the main thing we took into consideration whilst filming. i feel that Myself and Lyle were also visible the whole way through as we did not use zoom we just done the shots straight.
I also feel we got the eyeline match very good which is another positive. However i do feel there was one shot where muyself and Lyle's faces are barely in the screen. It was not like this when we filmed it but as we edited it the shot would not stay original and it kept cutting the edge off. We did not solve this problem in the end.
Editing
Our match on action i feel is perfect, it all flows, it does not look awkward and i will be looking for the same sort of match on action for my final piece. There are not any jump cuts, although there was one but we got around it by putting a clip of myself in between so you do not notice it.
I also feel that our shot reverse shot was excecuted very well, also the pace of the shots i feel are well timed, this is vital as you do not want some fast shots and some slow as it would not fit in together correctly.
The transitions are also invisivle, you do not want fancy transitions as it would make the video look childish.
On the whole i do not think that i would want to change any edits as i feel this was done in a good manner.
Sound/Mise en scene
The dialogue was clear and appropriate as we filmed in a classroom with only us three in there so there was not any interuptions.
The lightening i felt was good however it could have been better. Also when we originally filmed it we realised at the end that the blinds were up behind Lyle so you could not see him. Therefore we had to film all of our shots again. The setting was also appropriate.
I felt the team worked fairly hard, however i do think more effort could have been put in and i will think about this when it comes down to the main project. I also felt i contributed alot to the team with featuring in the film, contributing ideas for the dialogue and also helping Alice with the camera when she felt she had done something wrong.
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