Friday 30 December 2011

Light Sphere Production Welcomes You

Welcome to our groups Advanced Portfolio where we will post regular updates at different stages for our 5 minute comedy film. We hope you enjoy our blog and find it a accessible blog and easy to navigate your way round.

Sunday 11 December 2011

Week 11- Atul Sharma

This week we have started our evaluations. All group members will have to this section of the project individually. In the evaluation the following four questions must be addressed:

-In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
-How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
-What have you learned from your audience feedback?
-How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Friday 9 December 2011

8 Questions - By Syed Hussain

8 Questions

Create DVD - By Syed Hussain

I have created the DVD and exported it so that it is available in different formats. I created it in Apple ProRess 422 pal 48KHz using iDVD and the size was 16 by 9. This was the size that was most appropriate for the DVD.

Saturday 3 December 2011

Editors Journal- Atul Sharma

Directors Journal - By Syed Hussain

Filming: 23rd October

Today we started the filming of our short film ‘Out of Control’. Having picked the cast and set out the crew we were well organised and prepared for the task ahead. I (Syed) took on the job as director as I bought the idea forward and chose the character for our film. I decided to give Chris Phillipou the camera as I felt he had a keen eye for perfection and was good with bringing out angles. I also set Atul Sharma as the editor as we both felt it would suit his role perfectly. As our film was mainly based in the main school site we had to be accurate with our filming and couldn’t be off time. Before we started filming we had got all our actors in costume with their make up and also got all our props ready. After setting up the location we set forth to start our filming.

We shot the first scene in the common room as we were able to get it out of the way and let the school main site clear out. Having waited for the school to clear out, it had become 3:30 and we were on course to finish before 7:00 which was our filming deadlines for the site. Having shot the opening scene we looked over our current footage and went over some shots to make it better and give us a range of shots to choose from when editing.

As we went through each scene we had to set up the equipment properly and in a place where it would bring the best out of the scene. During the filming we had to constantly keep changing our angles and retake shots because of interference from unwanted quests. We used many shots to keep the audience intrigued and connected to the film with close up’s and exposing sounds; it helped them be apart of the film.

As the director I had to constantly keep an eye out for mistakes and keep it perfect within each scene, and to make sure I used the right elements in the right places to make it look good. A major strength with me being the director was that I was on good terms with the actors so it was easy to communicate and make the film better, we were pretty good with our filming with the only problem being near the end of our filming when the cleaners we interrupting in the scenes and background.

Camera Man Journal - Chris Phillipou

Sound Journal - Chris Phillipou



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Thursday 1 December 2011

Week 10- Atul Sharma

This week we aimed to complete our personal journals.  Syed completed the director’s journal, Chris completed the camera journal and I completed the sound and editors journal. The journals show all the thought process while completing our production. We also highlight any issues that occurred throughout our project and how we resolved them.
 
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