Work Diary - Video

What is it? As an alternative to shooting still images, we used the cameras to create a short movie.

Plans for the shoot:

I don't have any major plans for this shoot as I don't really know what to expect. My only plans are to find a suitable location and use my peers as models to make a mini-film based on the horror genre. I am then going to use iMovie to edit the video so that it complies to the genre. 

Shoot Evaluation:

I found this particular 'shoot' rather interesting as it was the first time I had used the FujiFilm cameras for shooting film, but I found actually conducting it quite fun and a real learning-curve for when I started film in my A2 Media class. We wanted to utilise the buildings around us and all created our own Horror films. I chose to use a black and white filter while editing because it added to the tone of the genre, whilst I used conventions of inter-titles to tell the story and scary music to also set the mood. Whilst it took quite a long time to get the shots right, I found that the actual product came together quite well after I had started editing it on the computer, and this is the result I achieved:

Using camerawork skills to film a sequence of events and using iMovie to add suitable music and effects.

I am really pleased with the outcome of this film; I feel like all of the additional elements work really well and help to set the tone and genre of the video, but I feel like if I was to improve this final product, I would take out some of the inter-titles as they made the video too long and boring.