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.