Preliminary Task

For our coursework, we have to create a short film opening of our own. This task was the foundation for our editing, filming, directing and even acting skills. In this task we had to film a conversation between two people as well as showing camera and editing skills like, walking through a door, and using shot, reverse shot in the filming of the conversation which i did with my task partner Max. We named it 'Rendezvous By Text'

The Black Hole

Short Film Research

We looked at three short films in a lesson to gain some knowledge on music and sound effects in a film clip. Firstly 'The Black Hole', 'The Otherside of the Lens' and 'Occupied'. I chose to look at 'The Black Hole' in more detail even though it wouldn't have a very interesting music time graph. However, it can help us to understand how it works. It tells the story of "a sleep-deprived office worker who accidentally discovers a black hole - and then greed gets the better of him..."
The main sound effect through out it is of a photocopier, when the noise is being used the graph would have a small raise in the it. This is continuous throughout the film so the graph would have little bumps for the beep all the way through. Another noise we hear often through this short film is the noise when the 'black hole' is being used, the zorbing. This is then set in our minds when the hole is used, so we may not even have to see the hole being used but hear the sound and we will know what is happening. Toward the end move and more is happening so the noise level is raised, so our graph will start to look as if it is climaxing. And this is where it finishes, at the peek of the climax, the loudest point of this film is the point of which it ends.

Garage band Lesson

In one of our previous lessons, we were taught how to use garage band. The programme helps you create music or various sounds to add into a film or short clip. Using music to create an atmosphere or just add to an action. For example music can create dramatic tension by the use of one instrument, a single drum beating as an example. In this lesson we drew some graphs to represent what is going on in the music in correlation with the film. Along the x axis would be the time of the film, and the y axis would be the volume of the music, in my idea of the graph, you could change the y axis to pitch but I will stick me volume. So the total graph length is the total time of the film including the highest peeks to be the loudest points in the music and the lower one the quieter parts.

iMovie Lesson

What I learnt on iMovie.
Firstly I have learnt how to upload a film clip. This may seem really straight forward but I can be quite complicated for a first time user, as I have never used it before. After getting all my clips on screen, I then learnt how to view my videos and able to select which clips to use and which clips not to in a new project. After this I was shown how to crop and cut my shots, which was extremely straight forward compared with the uploading. After editing my clips to the standard I wanted, and then added the finishing touches like credits and an title opening title.