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NOTE: Just click on an image to make them bigger :D Why is my blog so narrow >.<

Recording:

Filming Day

I used my Canon 500D mainly with a 35mm-55mm lens and I had a Sony handicam on standby if needed. I used a tripod as a stabilizer in some scenes.

Even with the tripod I found some shots much too shaky

I also found some shots not framed perfectly the way I wanted, but with the multi tasking of co-ordinating the action I lost track.

Swagga

Composing shots:

I tried to experiment with my shots so the film would not be so boring.

I always hoped to pull off a down the scope POV shot but that was not possible with my equipment.

I think some of my over the shoulder shots were the most successful
If a lot more of my shots were closer up the film would have felt much more dynamic.

Use of sound effects and music:

My Vegas project... those layers of sound...

A lot of my sound effects were ripped from video games and used.

Importing Images, Videos and Sound:

Thats a lot of gigabytes...

As I soon found out, working in after effects burned through memory, which was something I was not expecting.

I am quite proud of my workflow and management of folders, I never got lost and it was easy working in post.

So many After Effects Projects....

My work in After Effects:

Even though it was too many hours of work, it was totally work working on it, very proud of the end result

MOAR IMAGES:

See me in the BG working with the others

COLD

Plus rain >.<

Yup, we were working right beside railways :D

EVALUATION!

The Positives!

• Good time management
• A decent film was created :)
• Learnt a lot of things while working in post
• Had an excuse to buy a BB gun :3
• Cool costumes, unique

What would I have done better next time?

• Spread my filming over two days, no filming the first day but rehearse and plan the action scenes, and then film on the second day, less stress and more efficiency
• Redo almost all the post, atleast the first half of the film, I learned more tips and secrets as I edited, so the last half of the film in terms of the special effects look better than the first half.

Strategies used

• While planning my film, I watched a lot of action films, which kind of gave me ideas on composition and story.
• The internet helped a lot with the special effects.
• Previous experience in film gave me an edge on being time efficient.
• Planned out my time well to get everything done

Changes and why?

• An unfortunate change was just the manila folder at the end of the film, there was meant to be some sort of safe, but there was nothing to use, so a folder took its place instead.
• There was meant to be dialogue, from both the enemies and the main character, but the environment was too loud and audio recorded would have been useless, so I would have had to have dubbed audio, which is difficult. So I thought to add at least some dialogue to the enemies but without sound coming from the main character, the sounds seemed awkward, so was also removed
• EXPLOSIONS but of course thats too hard...
• ahh, I always had this image of the enemies pixilating and fading away when they died... but I didnt have a green screen with me...

Exam Evaluation

I think it went pretty good...
I studied most for horror, almost nothing for representation
I felt pretty prepared
2 hours on horror and 45 minutes on REP, 15 minutes of massaging my sore hand >.<
i did finish early... did not read back
I tried to remember key quotes :)
of course ill try to be more prepared :)