Narratives - Group 8

Group 8’s Meeting in Production Surgery

To make our 2 minute film a combined effort we decided to go off and produce individual storyboards of the ideas we had. In the production surgery we put all our ideas together and as we had hoped the storyboards were quite similar, so this meant we were all thinking along the same lines. Once we realised this we all took control of making this actually work. Glyn and I decided to book all the equipment whilst Adam and Chris talked about their ideas for their animation section.

Group 8’s First Day Filming

To be honest I was quite nervous because none of us were particularly experts in the studios. However, when we all got together we seemed to work well. We all shared tasks and roles in the studio, none of us were particularly controlling. Even though Glyn was acting he still helped with decisions about lighting, camera work and other small decisions we had to make.

Group 8’s Problems with Lighting

The lighting was quite problematic to start with because we all wanted our film to start of in daylight and as the day passed for the lighting to get darker. This didn’t really work because the day lighting looked much harsher and just generally bad. Slowly, and after a big breakfast we resolved the problem that we were having by pointing the lights up to the mirrors around the lights on the ceiling so it bounced back down in a less harsh way than before. We found this looked much more natural and we were happy with the outcome on the camera. It would have been more useful to have had Deborah and Danny’s seminar on lighting before we actually filmed, because I think now we could have sorted out these problems much quicker. I guess you learn by making mistakes though?!

Group 8 Getting Excited after a Big Breakfast

Before breakfast/brunch/lunch/dinner (it seemed to be a different thing for all of us as our body clocks are completely messed up) we filmed what we thought was a good first half of our filming. When we got back, we looked at our footage and seemed to take most of the shots again, and the difference with the lighting and camera angles is much more noticeable and looks much better. We started to become more creative whilst we were combining our skills, and we ended up making some stop motion video with the items on the desk each appearing one by one. I loved this when we looked back on it and, although some of the timing was wrong so we will have to sort that out in post production.