Evaluation

_{Before I started shooting my 8 shot journey, I had to put together a storyboard showing all 8 shots I will be taking in journey, I also had to include lots of notes, so I knew exactly what was happening in the shot and where abouts I'd be shooting it, Some of the notes i used were the location of the shot, size of shot, the end and start of the shot and also a little brief of what the subject will be doing in the shot. The storyboard shows the whole completed journey, which made it alot easier to know where abouts to edit when I came to that stage. I made sure my storyboard contained a variety of different shots, so that the video doesn't get boring to watch, for example I used a few close ups, one over the shoulder shot and a long shot. The shots vary a lot, the reason I made the shots vary are so that it can make the subject more powerful, for example I have a long shot of Laura sitting at the table, which cuts into a close up of her face pulling a confused look, By going into a close up it makes it more obvious what the viewer should be taking in. I had to follow a few rules when doing my storyboard, for example the 180 line and continuity of action. I followed both rules correctly, the most difficult to follow was making sure to keep continuity of action, I made sure Laura was walking the correct way and entering in the correct side of shot at all times. On each shot I drew I had to draw an arrow stating movement and what way the action is taking place.
Before we started filming we had to label and stripe our tapes. We labled our tapes so we didn't loose them, or if we did loose them, then hopefully they would come back to us. When we eventually started filming our shots, we had to make sure we had all the correct equipment and that it was working correctly. One of the most important parts of equipment we used, other than the camera itself, is the tripod. The benefits of using a tripod are that it makes the shot alot more stable, for example if you hold the camera with your hands than the shot could be shaky. Also with a tripod its easy to adjust the height and angle of the camera. At the begining and end of each take I took, I made sure i left 5 second handels, So that when it came to editing I would have space to edit and cut each shot down gradually. I recorded more than 1 take on quiet a few of my shots as various things went wrong, for example somebody would walk through the shot, or the framing was wrong. When filming I fortunately didn't overcome many problems, the biggest problem was people walking through the shot, but I just waited for the area to be clear before shooting.
When preparing for editing we had to log all our shots into a logging sheet. The information a logging sheet should include is the shot and take, for example shot 1 - take 1, Also they need to include the time of the begining of the shot and end, such as 00:04:00 - 00:09:00, the shot size, if there's any movement in the shot, the location or description of shot, comments saying whether the shot is ok or not and finally the EDL, which is the order of your shots. My logging sheet includes all of this information except shot movement as our camera had to be static. The timecode is the numbers on the top of your camera screen, it should start 00:00:00:00, the first column is hours, second column is minutes, third column is seconds and fourth is frames. The logging sheet definatly helped me when editing, as I knew exactly where to cut the shots.
Finally we edited our 8 shot journey together. We used Final Cut Pro to edit our shots, Final Cut Pro is a professional editing software. Before we could start editing, we had to log and batch capture all our footage before put the shots in place and editing, but doing this is mean the footage will be saved onto the computer as a digital file. I knew what footage needed capturing and what didn't by looking at my logging sheet, By looking at the sheet I could see what footage i was planning to use, I could also see exactly where I need to 'trim' my shots. When I started trimming I had to make sure I had cropped the shot before placing it into the timeline, I had to edit it in the viewer. Overall my 7 edits work and do complete a sequence, but if I was to do this execrise again, I would change my storyline to something more interesting and also use less Long shots and more other shots, such as point of view shots, to make it more interesting.}