Unlike most of the students we used our own equipment and editing software at home which benefited us alot because we could edit and film when ever we liked.
The editing software we shall use to create the film will be:
Sony Vegas Pro 8
The camera we shall be using will be: Sanyo TH1
We also have the chance to use a fisheye lense:
Opteka Super fisheye Lense
But not many films use the fish eye lens but it could come in handy sometimes for examople really close shots.
Me and josh had many ideas for a ident for example we wanted to use adobe after effects to create one which looks professional but neither of us were very experienced on the program and it was very time consuming which was was frustrating at this time so we decided to just make one using the editing program we used to make the film which was Sony Vegas pro 8. We really liked the dream works ident where the boy is fishing on the moon and then their logo appears. So inspired by this we decided to film a time lapse of the moon. But we had to wait for the perfect day to get a full moon to create the proper effect we wanted. This day came to me when i was out riding a outdoor skate park till fairly late and i noticed that there was a full moon, so i figured it would be the best opportunity to film. So i set the tripod up and there you have it a ident! We then took this clip and added text on to it which was " M.J Productions" we choose this name because it was fairly short and kind of had a ring to it. We then placed the text under the moon and made it the same colour as the moon to make it almost look like the text is supposed to be there, like the dream works text.
All of our filming will take place at Josh's house this is beacause Josh's house has a nice big front garden and also a big house. This means that we can get a lot of shot of the front of the house which will look good. The scenes which will be shot indoor wil be in the main living room of josh's house because this is the mostly lit room with a big window at the front providing the light for the whole room.
Most people gave us a level 3 for our draft which we were pleased with because we knew we could make the draft alot better than it was already. Things what people iked in the draft was the filming which show the relationship between the charaters which we tried to make look like amatuer filming by putting a filter on the clips when on the editing software. They thought our patential problems was the lighting in the clips beacause some of them were very dark and also some shots were handheld which they thought should of been with a tripod.
Myself i was not to pleased with the first draft but hope the final products develops alot from this idea when we next film we shall consider the audiences thoughts and try to acomplish them.
The opening of this short film gave us alot of insperation on what to do. I particuarly liked the opening of the film how the title sequence is presented and the establishing shots after it really creates a feel.
I like to get out of the house most of the time to ride my bike. I enjoy travelling to new places and meeting new people. I like entering into competitions also.