Edit Workshop - Week Two

This week we filmed our sequence called 'The Encounter', we only had this week to film, so it was a tight schedule to get everything filmed and done on time. We also had to find music and make any props we required. 

On Monday's lesson we showed our completed storyboard to Mr Phillipson and he gave us the idea that we could have some cut away shots of Bailey as she walks up to Sam's office, so we went away and came up with shots. We decided we would do a track of her walking funnily in her heels and a shot of her putting on bright lipstick, but she gets it on her teeth. 

In Wednesday's lesson, the first thing Simran and I did was find the music. We wanted some music for the establishing shot of the office, to show that it was on busy city road, so we went on YouTube and found a 30 second sound clip of some busy traffic. We then went on to find a type of 'geeky' music that we could play when we see Bailey walking up to Sam's office, to connote that she was an odd character. We had a bit of trouble trying to find this first, but then we found the instrumental of 'Geek In the Pink' by Jason Mraz. I think this music is perfect for the type of character that Bailey is as it's very funky and different, which goes with the type of clothing she wears in the scene as well. 

We then made the props we needed. Simran made the desk tag for Sam and I made the sign for the door. We had these to connote to the audience that it was an office. The characters also needed props so we asked Naveed, who played Sam, to wear a smart black blazer with a white t-shirt and we then made that more fashionable by making him wear lots of rings on each hand and a heavy gold chain, to emphasise he was a fashion director. For Simi, who played Bailey, we asked her to bring in heels, bright lipstick and neon leg warmers. This gave her a unique fashion style. We asked her to bring to the heels so that we could film shots of her walking and tripping over. 

The look we were going for with Sam.

After school on Wednesday, we started to film. We followed the storyboard shot by shot, making sure we also added the extra cross cut shots of Bailey we had written in. In filming, we included different techniques like; match-on-action, shot reverse shot, rule of thirds, the 180 degree rule and cross-cut shots. We also had different camera angles and shots, we included most of the different shots; close up, extreme close up, two shot, over the shoulder, establishing, long shot and mid shot. We included all three angles as well; straight on, high and low. We looked for a shot that could have a cantered angle, but it didn't make sense for the scene we were filming. 

Filming shots and including the rule of thirds and 180 degree rule were fairly simple as we had learnt to do that when filming for GCSE Media Studies. Where as when it came to filming the match-on-action shot, it become slightly difficult as we hadn't done this before. Our match-on-action shot was of Sam turning a paper that would be carried on through to the next shot. We found it hard as in editing we wanted Bailey to be speaking over both the shots, so we didn't know how to film her speaking in both shots but make the audio run smoothly over both. In the end we figured it out by not filming Baileys face in the second shot, we just filmed her hand gestures and had the focus on Sam's reaction. 

While filming, I made sure to count down from 5 to 1, before the characters would actually do anything, this was to make sure when editing we would have enough footage to cut that it would not be jumpy. I took the responsibility to make sure we had a range of clips to choose from for one shot when editing as you can never have too much footage. 
Next week we started editing all the footage to create our final piece.