Pre-Production

Before we started to film the Preliminary task me and Ashley created a shot list whilst Josh Mellors and Philip Creasy created a story board, we then compared documents and added improvements. When we had these two documents in place we then scouted for our location which was a room in the sixth form media block.

This is a graph of our shot list.  This shows every shot wanting to be used in our short clip.

Shot Number	Shot Type	Notes
1	Establishing Shot	Point of view shot down corridor
2	Low angle head shot	Shot of the good guy
3	Close Up	Close up of guys hand on the door handle
4	Long shot	of good guy entering room
5	Over Shoulder shot	From good guys perspective
6	2 Shot	Good Guy Walking towards the Ghost
7	High Angle Mid Shot	of Ghost
8	Low angle Reverse shot	of good guy
9 &10	Shot Reverse Shot	Exchange of dialogue
11	Mid shot	Computers turning off
12	Mid Low angle	Looking at good guy
13	Mid shot	Computers turning off
14	Mid shot Point of view	Looking at ghost fading out

This is a photograph of our story board which we followed when it came to filming, so that we got all the shots right and in order.

Production

All four of us had different roles when filming the short clip. Josh Mellors was the main actor in the clip; Philip Creasy was in charge of altering the lighting on the actors faces using a reflector to reflect the light from the ceiling lights to the actors face.  Phil wasn’t too bothered of playing the role of the ghost so we got another student to help us play the role.  Ashley to the role of a director, he coordinated shots and used slates (like a clapper board) to help us know what video track went where and to keep how many shots he had used.  I took the role in operating and filming, me and Ashley worked close together when filming so we were both happy with the shots.

Due to using a normal camcorder we couldn’t get the correct sound quality we would have wanted.  We found that the sound during the editing process sounded better, but when we produce or final piece we will be using HD cameras with a microphone input, so we can get the correct sound.  Mainly we will be using a boom microphone to pick up the actors voices more.

When me and Ashley took a closer look at the footage we found that the lighting in the clip wasn’t up to a professional standard due to us just using the ceiling lights and natural light.  All of the lighting was coming from above the actors causing an uneven shadow on their face.  We then decided that next time we would use more artificial lighting such as par cans or builders flood lights.  This will allow us to make a more accurate and even shadow on the actors and to bring their facial expressions to life.

Post Production

When I came to editing all four of our members took it in turns to edit the clip, so we had a fair share of experience. The four of us followed the storyboard and shot list to get all the clips in the right order.  Whilst another member was editing the three other members got together to discuss the possible improvements needed. Once the shots were vision mixed together I then went along and added all of the video effects, I then went onto YouTube to search for a non-copyrighted soundtrack for our video.  I then also added sound effects to help tell the story to the viewer on what is happening.

This screenshot is showing the editing process we went through.  We had to play around with the audio to get the right balance between the diegetic sound from the camera and the non-diegetic sound effects we added in the editing process.

After the editing process was finished we then rendered it to a High standard quality (960 by 540 pixels).  This was to give the film more of a professional feeling and with it having the black border; it makes the clip look like a professional movie trailer; which was the intention.

This is a shot of our short film being rendered in Adobe Encoder.

This is our final video.