Problems I have encountered

This post is to show what problems I have faced while filming, Editing, designing and prodousing. I will Analise what the problems are and how I have overcome them throughout my experience of research, planning and my actual products.


Editing:

Throughout my editing I have used the new Imovie, I am struggling to get my product to a professional standard. There are some flaws within the software; it isn't compatible with the other camcorders we had anishally started using thus causing delay with waiting for new camcorders to arrive. Another problem I encountered was when trying to make a fast jumpy intro you cannot get close enough to the Milli-second to cut of the clip on the timeline which created problems with jumping from one scene to another quickly creating the quick dramatic change of scene I wanted- also you can only cut to a minium of 3 seconds which also created problems when wanting to produce a fast jumpy clip.


Filming

Some scenes I have filmed which i cant use a tripod to do (high shots etc), have some shaky areas where I cannot keep my hand still thus making an armature type shot... but some of the shaky scenes look good and work well, others do not.

My friends not turning up or not wanting to do some scenes (embarrassing, cannot make it, busy or laziness?) creating some problems with my time management causing me to use DIFFERENT people; confusing for the audience watching? I will have to try and fit all the characters into one scene to show the audience that these are the people using throughout the trailer?

When trying to make scary scenes look realistic as possible it is very hard, as we only have one camera to film on so couldn't do camera tricks; so a lot of the "stunts" (filming in shower and blood pours over one of the girls, plates smashing on the floor) we only could film it ONCE so it had to be correct! as there wasn't enough fake blood to do several scenes, and not many plates to smash (brought 5 for £10!!!!!!) 

Storyline:

alterations to the storyline and story board, some new scenes added some not used; trail and error! Some scenes just didn't work I will include these unused clips in my evaluation.

Software:

Not having Microsoft word, publisher, Photoshop, Imovie at home on my own laptop has been difficult not being able to do work at home, but time managing my frees at school and after school has helped me produce an overall successful blog so far.

Lighting

Lighting has been a problem in many different cases, such as when filming from certain angles (mainly low and high angles, shadows change direction in the background, or can see the camera/camera mans shadows, this problem has accrued in several scenes and makes my filming look very armature. To overcome this I was just careful where I had my subject lighting (main lights, lamps, camcorder light) to make sure shadows cannot be seen or moving while moving the camcorder.

My opinion:

Working on my own has proven difficult with managing my other subjects as well as Media. But has proven that I am good at time managing myself.

Photos before and after: for poster and mag

This post is to organise all my images, that I have used throughout my planning stage for my mock ups, drafts and final photos for my two ancillary tasks! I have used photoshop to edit all of the photos, and have print screens for proof.

Here I have made the photo like a cartoon, It makes detail in her hair and clothes stand out and the surrounding area, much brighter and more detailed. I do like this photo as its mysterious; putting flowers on a grave. But I do not think it links to my "ghost" theme for my trailer, or connotes horror as much as the other images I have taken.

  

In this photo I have experimented on photoshop to make an abstracted photo, by blurring the background thus disorientating the grave It has made the photo look different and confussing as you cannot make out what the background is, I don't think It worked well as it looks very ameture (just looks like I have taken the photo on a low shutter speed and shake the camera to get the effect) and too confusing for the audience. I don't think the experiment works well. 

Here I have edited the photo to different colours, a blue colour and a black and white (mixed blue colour) I like the idea with the colour variations but not the actual image; Its to ameture and the background images take the focus of the focal image; the girl. Also I feel that the image is to dark and the girl is too far away

from the camera; attention isn't on the girl.

I really like this image; It was used for my mock up of my poster, but I feel that my other poster idea with the eye is better. But I would like to incorporate this image into my magazine? I copied and pasted "paris's" face so many times to make a collage collected up of just her face. Also edited it on photo shop to bring out the brightest colours; Yellow and reds etc...To make it look like fire.