Film Poster Draft 3

Brief notes for how my actor should approach/interact with water

Things my actor could wear whilst in the water: sundridge fishing boots possibly?

Buy fishing/fisherman shoes/boots?

Let the actor wear a dress (billowing over boots - audience won't see the boots)

Have hot water standing by for actor

Wear high boots - this means you can go further in)

Do it all in one space of time (less time in the water)

Wear Wellington Boots - add it in as part of the storyline

Film Production Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment Form

Location Recce Checklist

Location Release Form

Recce Form

Actor Release Form

Minor Actor Release Form

Shot List

Avid Media Composer Notes

• Log on to the avid
• Open 'Avid Media Composer' on the home screen
• Create a New Project on the dialog box that pops up
• Write a project name
• 1080/25p
• Open footage, select files, drag them into the box labelled "[Your Project Name] Bin"
• Raw Footage Window (left) - footage from camera
• Production Footage Window (right) - footage being created
• Yellow Arrow = Splice-in button
• Red Arrow = Overwrite button
• If the insertion point is at the beginning, and you press the overwrite button,
• Trim Mode - pink video window to the left represents end of first shot, pink video window to the right represents beginning of second shot
• Click left video window - pink window turns yellow
• Single arrows represent 1 frame
• Double arrows represents 10 frames
• Pink bar on both sides grows first clip, cuts frames of second clip
• Add Edit button puts cut right in the middle of the clip, to create a pause in the clip so you can put another clip in between
• An "Assembly Edit" is putting the clips down in a rough form, in storyboard order (before you refine them/change them)

Bins are where we store footage
Have separate bins for separate days for filming
Bins enable us to differentiate footage in numerous ways

Preparing to Shoot

Directing actors - How to get the performance in your imagination

• avoid telling actors to "be more this please..."
• give actors a back story/background - biographical
• answer actor questions honestly and properly
• feel fear

Choreography - use of space. How and where to move subjects

• Less dialogue -> more space


Coverage - Long shots to closer shots

Script Draft 4 - Final Draft

Short Film Script 4th Draft

Script Draft 3 Evaluation

Refer to the characters in higher case context. For example, instead of "woman", type "WOMAN". This identifies the character's actions/roles/movements clearly on the pages of the script.

Expand upon your ending; create a more meaningful climax.

Possible idea for a new ending:

• Have the WOMAN record him on her phone, and signal for the MAN to enter the stream. Have him obey her, whilst his camera is still recording; he is unaware of this! He enters, and they exchange wording, leading to her expressing an emotive action towards him; a kiss, hug, etc. She does so whilst acknowledging the camera, before leaving. The MAN realizes everything that happened was filmed, and feels pride at connecting with the WOMAN, and also successfully creating a film (he was making a film himself! This interlinks with him filming the streams/trees earlier).

As the director, you are now filming a film within a film.

Sound

Quality Criteria

Clarity – being able to hear what is said between the characters/sound essential to the frame

Cleanness – Has it been clearly recorded?

Selection – a clear idea whether what sound you recorded is what you intended - appropriate/inappropriate

Reduction of unwanted elements – sound of the wind

Continuity – have a constant sound movement

Any sound that isn't dialogue should be recorded separately after the main action in the scene has been recorded. This is known as "Wildtrek"

Room Sound/Tone - at the end of each scene, record one/two minutes of "Room Tone"

• "We're going to record one minute of room tone"
• This will create better cutting continuity.

Side Notes:

• XLR cables provide better quality sound than stereojack cables
• Avoid being "unidirectional" - it will only pick up the sound in a lined direction - make sure the microphone is facing directly at the actor's lips!
• The recording level should be three quarters of the way across for good dialogue
• Get all the cable behind the mic, and wrap it around the boom hole, giving it some slack nearer the microphone; this keeps the cable clean.
• The microphone is very delicate

White Balance Test

Screen Shutter Test

Panasonic AG-HMC41E Sound Notes

"External Microphone"


The microphone is "counter-intuitive"

"Male connections"
"Female connections"

Forks = male
Hole = female

Input/output

Boom pole
Mic-mount

Inserting the battery to the microphone

• Insert battery into microphone...
• The microphone is "counter-intuitive".
• Flick the switch on the microphone to "BATT. ON". If a red light flashes once, the battery has been connected.
• The "female" connection on the battery connects to the "male" connection on the microphone.
• Connect the "Female" XLR cable to the "Male"

Film Review - Draft 1

Film Review Draft 1

Film Poster - Draft 2

Annotations of Tyrannosaur Sight&Sound Review

Annotations of Fish Tank Sight&Sound Review

Film Poster - Draft 1