Main Task

In year 12 i made a 5 min radio show which was built with a product called Audacity. This year I am creating a short film, a poster which is promoting the film and a 30-40 second radio advert advancing the film. Working in a totally new format which is feature something i wasn't acquainted with this implies that I need to utilize my examination and arranging abilities to find how film is made.  I have chosen to embrace various practice undertakings to empower me to obtain the important abilities to work at an incredible level. I will likewise be utilizing audience criticism after each of my practice extends with a specific end goal to figure out how better to make the following task.

Production Team:

• Jose Rego
• Kilipi Mukumbu
• Ruben Eleutrio

First Attempt of Movie Making

To acclimate ourself with a camera we took it upon ourselves to make a short film and increase criticism from a crowd of people. The short film comprised of the protagonist losing her telephone. We learnt from our errors and verified that our second movie was a great deal more moved forward. Remark differed from the cuts not appearing well and good, the story line was befuddling and the cam points were essential, amid when the young lady was supposing we could of installed a voice over to make feeling.

This is a screenshot of the edit we done on the film. At this phase we were raising the volume of the diegetic sound.


Use of Constant Power

One thing that let down our short film was the sound. Because of not having a high spending plan, we couldn't accumulate the fundamental hardware to guarantee the sound was great. As a gathering, we concluded that we would try different things with a few sound moves to attempt and verify the sound does not by any means risk the nature of the film. We checked the Adobe site, which gave a portrayal of all the preset moves in Premiere Pro.

Media tools we used

CANON EOS 60D (FILMMAKING)

LIGHT

SAMSON MIC 

These were a few of the equipment that we used. Not all are shown but these are a few. The Canon 60D was the main camera we used to our filming of our short film, that was attached to a tri pod to keep it sturdy. Its a great camera is records in full 1080P which is essential for the quality of the video. The Light was very essential this was mainly used to light up scenes which were seen to be dark especially considering the fact that we were filming indoors. The Samson Mic was mainly used to create our Radio advert but it was also used for out short film. It was great way to record the actors voice to make it clear and coherent. 

Journey of Production

Designing our Logo

We wanted as a group to keep our logo sleek and elegant. After doing some research on film logos we want that in most logo they used simple text and short names. That is why we came up with the name K.A.R.J. Production. The inspiration for the names was all our initials K (Kilipi), A (Asanka), R(Ruben), J(Jose). 

Inspiration for logo

LOGO 1

LOGO 2

The logo for a production team is essential. Firstly as we know a logo creates identity for a production group or organization. The logo help in the latter stages this being marketing and promotion. The first logo contains film strips used as skyline building; the second one uses a train carrying a 'play and pause' film strip. 

Our Logo

For this logo I took the idea of a film strip and placing the production groups and embedding it in the middle of the logo. By doing this it keeps the professionalism of the logo. i wanted to keep the logo as simple as possible because most global logo are very simple take the Nike logo as an example a simple tick. I then went further on to design this second version of the logo. It has a circular film role with the end of it meting on our production name. In doing so this it makes it very eye catchy and pleasing to the eye. In my opinion the second version of this particular   logo looks better as it keeps the simplistic and professional look.

STORYBOARD

Story-boarding permits us to outline the story line obviously, letting us know what happens in every scene in what request. Story-boarding as a gathering permits us to bring all our thought into one so it is anything but difficult to picture. It makes it correctly clear to every one of us precisely what the film is about and how we will be recording it, so that our dreams of the film aren't diverse. At the point when shooting, story-board to help guide us take the shots. Minor things were changed through gathering discourses, however the printed material had been the building pieces of the entire generation.

Script

First Draft of Script

Second and final draft of the film

Mood board:

Coming up with an idea for the short film isn't the easiest of tasks when you have a short period of time to think of one. One way in which we combated this was putting all our idea into a mood board, it was apparent that we wanted to base our main film in the world of work. On the top I have placed the mood board which was created to give the production team a brief outline of what the story line. This mood board gave us a vision and guided us to create the idea of a two male character unknowingly applying for a job with only one spot left. We had to keep to codes and conventions of a short film so we used school as our main location  as well as taking in to consideration that we have no budget to use. 

Pre-Production

Shot List

Shot-listing tells us what we will be filming i.e. the position of the camera, what the camera is focusing on and what technique we would use; such as whether the camera will be panning or not.

Location Scouting 

Group Vlog

Shots taken of the filming 

Editing the short film on two mac computers. One computer was used to view the clips and the other for editing.

One of the cameras we used to film.

Scene of the main Actors

Director (Asanka) explaining what he wants from his actors.

First Attempt on Movie Making

Taking all the feedback we got from our first test movie we made. My group set out to address the problems and make it better. The idea of our second movie was a Job Interview. Two protagonist not realising that they were attending the same job which only has one place left. Below is our movie.

Screenshot of editing decision on our movie. Below consists of some part of the timeline.

The feedback was overall really good! They loved the narrative and the acting. There were small changes needed to be made. One major problem that we need to sort out was the sound! It was very unclear and hard to hear the dialogue. To over come this next time we are going to use portable microphones or a boom. Second problem being the zoom out at 0.16 seconds. As the comment said its rather 'criminal' meaning tacky, we might change that to a cutaway. Third problem outlines was at certain parts of the movie we should use extreme close ups to show the emotions of the character, building a realistic perception to the audience. Fourthly and finally the use of props should be more real instead of realistic. All in all great work!

Having takes everything into consideration, my team went out and re-shot the whole film again. This time we used a different actor, but left the story line the same. We used a variety of different shots including close ups which one criticise of not having enough of in our first attempt. We took out the zoom out which was at 0.16 on the previous video, we replaced with the reflection of the character walking by. We tried a hardest with the sound but we may have to re adjust to it again! Here is the video.

Second Attempt on Movie Making

In the wake of recognizing where we turned out badly the last time we shot our first short film. firstly we began off by keeping the same story and plot and rather simply changing it. As you could see there is an increment of the measure of close ups in this form contrasted with our first form and this is on account of we tackled board a portion of the positive feedback which we got from the first form we made. the sound quality has additionally enhanced contrasted with last time yet its still not improved and we're going to verify that this circumstance gets fathomed when we wrap up our third form. Another remark proposed that we ought to show what happens when both characters go into the meeting room, we believed that this was a smart thought and we have made arrangements to make this scene work for our next draft where you will see what happens inside the meeting room.

Second audience feedback

As should be obvious from the remarks, our second draft was substantially more of a change contrasted with our initial one, firstly we settled all the issues which we had with our first draft and improved it in general. In any case they were still some minor issues which the gathering of people distinguished from our second draft, one of the issues was that we secured a greater amount of the trip from one side of the protagonist contrasted with the other one. The audience needed to see the voyage from both of the hero which they took while advancing toward the meeting room. It now makes more sense as the film begins with them two having a meeting which they are planning for, so its just right that the film takes after both of their adventures so that the gathering of people feels more submerged into what's occurring around them amid their adventure.

Third Attempt on Movie Making

Essentially as you can see we used a variety of shots as earlier we were criticised for not having enough shots of both protagonist making there way to the interview room. As you may of noticed that not all the film was created we wanted to focus on the soundtrack and see what the audience thought of it! By doing this it allowed to realise whether the soundtrack in use goes well with the footage! We hope to focus on the ending scene more when it came to draft 4. 

From our audience feedback we got a mix of feedback. It varied from sound quality, criticism of the acting as well as having no logo of our production team in the beginning which is one of the codes and conventions of a short film. Keeping in mind that we did not include the last scenes in this draft all in all the criticism was taken into consideration. The colour correction that one individual pointed is easily fixed however we thought it was okay but we can see what we can do when we do another draft.  Sound quality wise we precisely looked at the DB scale so that the track weren't too hot or too quiet in return will produce good sound.   

Fourth Attempt on Movie Making

The fourth attempt of our short film making we utilized this endeavor to truly test out our thoughts. We needed to perceive how the audience of onlookers responded to changed occasions happening in the short film. The Main expansion to this specific endeavor was the expansion of a female actress. We needed to perceive how the crowd responded to this, yet and adding more scenes to how both protagonists wound up at the same place and additionally acquainting the interviewee Jose which added more activity to the story. Likewise as you may have seen we took away the soundtrack this was done intentionally to perceive how the audience would respond furthermore to see whether the crowd favoured music. 

Well as you see that the audience suspected that the taking endlessly of the soundtrack was a terrible move. The greater part of the audience said that it was in a couple of scenes and i accept they are alluding to which both protagonists make there route to the meeting room. Yet the majority of the audience felt that the story line was incredible which we as group concur with. For our next draft our fundamental goals is excessively include sound and additionally erasing a perspective scene.

Above are some of the screen shots we took while editing out Draft! Click to enlarge! 

Final Film

This was the ending result and the final version of our short film. We kept the editing part of the film as our audience felt it built and kept the tention throughout the whole film. We like to think its the best of both third and fourth attempts. We also used a particular editing from draft 2 which was the cutting of the shot infused with the soundtrack on top of it. Colours were corrected as well as sound levels. As a whole the film turned out as we imagined it. The audience feedback was Positive therefore backing up our idea that it turned out well.