To Do List:

PLANNING:

1. Working as a group on a Rough Edit
2. Shooting additional footage
3. Undertaking weekly reflections

DONE WORK:

1. Production Schedule
2. Finishing off the EDL

PART A:

1. Transfer ALL required footage to an external hard-drive
2. Finishing EDL
3. Use filters, titles and effects to finalize visual elements

DONE WORK:

1. Ensure a backup footage
2. Convert footage
3. Import, organize footage using Final Cut
4. Assemble your sequence

Term 3: Reflection/ Evaluation

Reflection/ Evaluation:

1. Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the filming of your project

2. Describe any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project

3. Are you satisfied with your film process so far? How could you improve this?

4. Have you managed your time effectively?

5. If you could start again what would you do differently?

ALL OF THIS WORK MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY

1. We have encountered few problems and hiccups during the post-production and during film. We have caused a disturbance with our CM group making this difficult for us to work as a team. This has made some members of the group uneasy about this awkward situation, but we are trying to sort this matter out.
This disturbance hasn’t disturbed the process of filming, but has disturbed the interruption of making decisions together as a group and figuring out the problems with our film.
This has only been happening for a few weeks and everyone in the group has been doing their own editing and no one has really made any communication about what scenes or wither we want to redo some sequences. But again the communication isn’t that brilliant through out the group.

2. The skills and the techniques that I’ve learnt are different from the way the camera is being used in film and how to film a movie, with the different techniques of angles, shots and planning. The pre-production stage was very interesting in knowing how he ‘real’ world plans each movie in depth to how they sort everything out before they start film. I suppose I’ve learnt a lot from not really sticking to how the result in your head is going to be when you start shooting because there can be a few alterations through a crew/team, even though it’s your story that’s being made.

3. I am proud of what we’ve done in the filming process so far. We have done most things as we discussed through pre-production, but there was a few pot holes through shooting as these were problems that couldn’t be solved through the shooting such as the weather, people in the of shooting and the lighting. But overall the filming process that we have achieved conducted through out the day.
We can’t improve on the problems we had because they are natural incidences that couldn’t be solved and we can’t control the weather or the problems with the people in the way, but we had some slight issues with the lighting. The way we’ve could’ve solved it was to try out few shots with using different lighting, but as we had a limited amount of time through out the day we didn’t take the time to do that. As we know now, if we could fix this problem then we would re-shoot the takes and find the solution to the problem.

4. I believe we have managed our time very effectively, considering one of teammates couldn’t make it to both shooting days due to other commitments. Our time management was very productive due to early shooting before our fellow classmates because we were excited to start the filming and we couldn’t decide what day we should start shooting. This decision for us to start early made us ahead of our classmates, having more time to re-shoot takes and having more time and letting our teacher see what needed improving through out our film.

5. As I mentioned this last term, if I had the choose in starting this over again I would differently change the story to someone else’s story so we wouldn’t be able to do mine. Other than that in the way we were filming I believe that we should’ve slowed our shooting process done because we were all over the place and we didn’t everything so fast. For the scenes I would have changed the family scenes e.g. kitchen and end. Also the scenes with Letty and Susie in it and finally the plot were Susie gets beat in up; I would have changed the beating up scene from the park to a different location. This would have made the idea to the film different from the concept of using the inspiration of the film.

Shots List

• KITCHEN:
o Eye level- running into the house
o Low to High- to Shelby (medium) to Me
o Low to Eye level- running away

• PARK:
o Bird’s eye view- running to park
o Low level- swinging
o Low level- Shelby behind me
o High- beating
o High- bloody face
o Eye level- beating up guys running away

• HOUSE:
o Eye level- mum phoning the police
o High level- dad comforting mother

• GARDEN:
o High level- Susie lying on the trampoline
o Eye level- girl walking into the house

• INSIDE THE HOUSE:
o Medium angle- wondering the house.
o The girl is wondering the house. No one is the house because they’re at her funeral.
o High angle- sees Letty on the sofa
o Eye level- Susie walking over to Letty
o Eye level/ medium- conversation between Letty and Susie
o Eye level- family comes inside the house from the front
o High angle- family walks to the dinning table
o Eye level- Susie walks over to them
o Medium- family talking

• OUTSIDE:
o High angle- Letty and Susie seating on the steps talking
o Eye level- Sister walking outside
• Sister is patting the dog, looks up to see Susie with Letty runs inside the house

• SUSIE'S ROOM:
o Stay's the Same

• FEW YEARS LATER
o Eye level- mother preparing dinner
o High angle- sister is setting the table up
o Eye level- family seating around the table
o Mother looks around the table and says, “Everything will be alright”
o Outside
o Eye level- Susie and Letty talking about how everything will be all right and walks off.

Reflection

In the past few lessons that we had, we haven't been doing much because Mr. Andrews had told us to redo some scenes. This is putting us back because we cannot edit or do anything to change it because of those scenes that we need to redo. We have done all of the lists that we need to do for planning our film. We have created a script, created a shot list for the film and we have talked about what we need to change once we arrive to our film day. Right now we aren't doing anything towards our film. This is a great disadvantage towards our time during the lesson.

To be honest, right now everyone is over CM because we are sick of waiting to film! I am so over this... in a way it's getting boring!

Term 2: Reflection/Evaluation

1. I had a little bit of trouble doing my film treatment because I had to shorten words down but still explain it, not in a detailed description though. I had to do the treatment quite a few times to see if it was right or not, checking for errors and using present tense speech (bit hard to write because I’m not use to it)

2. Didn’t really plan or research that much before doing my treatment because I already had my story in my head and I wrote it down, but I mainly got the idea from watching ‘The Lovely Bones’ but I changed things differently to make it into a short story

3. Doing the activities on learning about different angles and shots help me imagine what kind of angles/shots I wanted to
introduce in my storyboards so I could get a better understanding of how I wanted my scenes to look like. The template was good in the knowing what detail I wanted to put into the storyboards. On the side of the storyboard there was sections saying: shot type, camera positing, action/dialog/ detail and notes. This actually made me on task with what I was suppose to be doing with my storyboards. It was really easy for me to start off with drawing the images then writing what I wanted the scenes to be scene like.

4. I thought I would have trouble with drawing the storyboards but in matter a fact I was surprised with the final results. I had trouble with how many storyboards to draw, like the main parts or the small parts. I learnt that doing all of the shots are important because then you get lost and no one knows what going on when you start filming.

5. Write the story first because it helps you create you film treatment then use the treatment to incorporated that into the storyboards. Better in pencil to draw the storyboard, rather than taking photos because then you have to put the arrows in and that takes a while. Draw the arrows while you finish drawing it because then you’ll forget to put in the arrows in storyboard.

1. Yes I am happy with the final results because when we were in the group, we talked about the story and what to add and what to take out, and everyone participated in the ideas of the film. There were some edgy bits that we rushed like the pre-production. I believed that we rushed the pre-production stage because we were so excited to be getting started that we didn’t have a scripted or plan any angle/shot list. But overall we worked well as a team and our ideas together are somewhat good.

2. We didn’t mange our time well because while we were in pre-production we talked for a while about where we wanted to set the scenes, how we were going to do it and mainly we changed the storyline. We didn’t really talk about the angle/shot sequences, the scripted, plan B and mainly we rushed everything. The time of shooting was very rushed because when we started filming we took a longer time on the first scene and then we rushed the scenes that we did during the end of the day.

3. I would change the idea of the story, the location, scripted, the time of day and some scenes that was taking. The story because it’s a bet complicated and it’s quite hard to follow throw some parts of the story. Scripted because we didn’t really write a whole scripted down and learn from that we just made it on the spot which was a bit edgy because ever take we shot we changed the lines every time. The time of day wasn’t that right compared to what was planned on the storyboard. Most of the scenes were set during the day and were quite bright. The beating up clip wasn’t how the storyboard was like, being set in the day inside of a night scene. The location links over towards the time of day that was set, such as the beating up scene (explained previously).

Film Treatment

Bright Light

A girl finds herself thrust into a world where there is no escape; with the help of her dead best friend, can she ever escape this world.

Story By

Emily Bennett

Key Characters

Susie: Teenage abuse victim who is in between two worlds. She meets best friend, Letty, who had past away due to a collision of another car. She recalls what happens to her.

Letty: Was Susie’s best friend who had been in a car accident due to a car collision of another car. She encounters Susie in this mystery world.

Four Men: Men surround Susie in a dark alleyway, happening to beat her up to uncertain death.

Susie’s Family: Four family members’ of Susie, including: mother, father and two siblings. They are oblivious to Susie’s appearance, they can’t hear or see her.

Susie’s Friends: A group of Susie’s friends who have the same appearance as her family.

Key Locations

Front/ Back Yard: Front yard of a house, her house is at the end of the cul-de-sac with a deserted street. A dark cloud surrounds the sky with sunlight shining brightly upon the yard. Back yard with a pool, tall trees surrounding the yard and a concrete bench.

Big house: Large lounge in front of the front door, a dinning room table with a candle stand in the middle. A bar with an extension room connected to the bar.

Street: A deserted street with streetlights looming above the street.

Alleyway: Dark alleyway with rubbish bins along the wall, light is dim, water on the floor and graffiti on the walls.

SYNOPSIS

A vista of a deserted neighbourhood street slowly comes into view, with a girl lying on the front lawn of her house from a bird’s eye view. There is no music. The girl’s face is shown before moving slowly towards the door. The door slowly opens showing a full perspective of the room with intense thrilling music. Thrilling music crescendos as a dinning room table comes into view, showing four people. The camera moves slowly towards a man, zooming in on his face, before moving to the girl shaking the man. Shifting towards a candle burning in the middle of the table after changing scenes to another room. A medium shot of the girl’s face exposes the screen with a gathering over her shoulder. She walks to the group as soft violins play. The camera views each solemn face from a low angle then moves upwards to an eye level position. Backing out into a mysterious garden, camera zooms onto a bench where girl runs towards it. Low shot of the girl seating down with another girl from a distance. Both girls circle each other as the music crescendos after a flash back of a deserted street. Dark night, streetlights shine on the street from a bird’s eye view, following the girl running away from four men by a dolly shot as the music increases with the intensity of the chase. The girl starts walking faster when the men jump in front of her from a dark alleyway, the music decrescendos but a deep tension is playing. A bird’s eye view of the alleyway after a dolly shot of the men circling the girl. A medium/low shot of a man pushing the girl onto the ground with dramatic music. Side of her face is beaten up with blood gushing out of her mouth and nose. A bird’s eye view of the antagonists starts to fade revealing the scene in the garden. Looking up towards her friend, the girl discovers there is no way back. Shifting towards the house, life returns with the girl watching her family like a silent ghost with music increasing with brightness and happiness, the scene fades to reveal the end.

Practicing a Treatment

Storyboard 1:
Two characters are set in an empty church where a tall man confronts a priest wondering wither he knows anything about the ship. The view of the priest’s expression is startled by the man’s appearance in confronting him in his own sanctuary. The man starts to walk slowly towards the priest with no fear on his face. The moment is tense and alight with gripping thoughts of wither the priest should run. The sunlight streams in the church with a feel of warmth and comfort, but could warmth and comfort save the priest. The priest doesn’t know what to do, but he decides for running to save his own life. The tall man is ready for a chase while the tension surrounding the two characters is strong with the starting of a chase. The sound of the priest heavy breathing filled his ears full of longing and loss. While the man’s large shoes filled the church with the deafness of his slow movement towards the priest.