What was the task?
The task was to create a 90 second video as shown on DepicT!
DepicT! is a competition for filmmakers/media students, from all around the world, to create a short film, within the time space of a minute and a half. With a chance of winning £2500 prize money, invaluable industry exposure, and a host of other exclusive prizes.
The film you create can be of any genre and on any budget, the only rule is that the video must be 90 seconds or less. The aim for DepicT! is too see short great films from all across the world.
Introduction:
The film in which our group created was on the topic of art. With it being near Halloween, we came up with the idea of filming the process of a pumpkin carving. Showing the way in which one group member can carve a pumpkin in
order for it to look like Yoda.
order for it to look like Yoda.
Discuss camera work:
The majority of camera work used in our video is similar as for most of the video the camera is based on a tripod and at a medium length shot. This is very appropriate for our video as viewers would want to see the pumpkin at all times being created into the image of Yoda's face (character from Star Wars).
Another shot that we used is a low angle extreme close up. We used this angle to show the audience a closer look at "Yoda's" features and to see the progress of the carving.
We also used a close up shot a couple of times later in the video to show us turning the light on and also lighting the candle to show the effect of the candle alight, from inside the pumpkin. We also have a high angle shot of the pumpkins flesh being emptied out of the pumpkin and also the lid of the pumpkin being lifted off so the candle can be placed inside. This shot was a good shot as the viewers could see the candle being put inside, rather that it just appearing there.
Discuss mise-en-scene:
Most of the scenes in our video have natural lighting but as these were filmed over a period of 6 days, the lighting changed due to the weather and time of day. It looked like the lighting was the same through out the entire video, however, when the video was sped up the difference in lighting became noticeably visible. This was an uncontrollable factor, which we couldn't change due to the weather. The tools we used while creating the video were the camera, tripod, pumpkin, knifes, bowl, pen, spoon and towel.
Discuss editing and continuity:
There was a lot of editing our group had to do in order to get our video as short as possible. The main edit was to speed up of the whole video. We did this as carving the whole pumpkin took a lot of time to finish, over the course of 6 days in total. Overall we had about 1 hour and 30 mins of actual footage from the pumpkin carving. We managed to edit it by speeding it up and cutting unnecessary bits which cut it down to 2 mins. Even though we were meant to make it 90 seconds we ran out of time and were unable to finish our editing to make it fit the time scale asked. As we filmed over a number of days there may have been some continuity errors that occurred, for example one of the errors was the clothing on Leonie we were able to see this as she is carving you can see the different colour sleeves as the video goes along. Another continuity error that occurred was different movements of the bowl we contained the pumpkin flesh as sometimes it is close to the pumpkin and other times it is further away, this was due to filming on different days but a good thing is the errors was not pointed out in class and are hard
Discuss sound:
In our media production there wasn't any dialogue what so ever. Our aim was to get a Halloween themed sound track to play while the pumpkin was being carved, to show the effect and the theme of what we were doing. We couldn't manage to get the soundtrack we wanted imported into the video as we couldn't use the track due to copyright, instead to show that we wanted some audio in and so we wouldn't leave the soundtrack blank we imported a soundtrack we owned. The soundtrack we imported was a clip of Leonie singing her song. This soundtrack was not as relevant as it could have been as the theme of the video we made was different. This was a last resort in order to give some audio with the video.
Most of the scenes in our video have natural lighting but as these were filmed over a period of 6 days, the lighting changed due to the weather and time of day. It looked like the lighting was the same through out the entire video, however, when the video was sped up the difference in lighting became noticeably visible. This was an uncontrollable factor, which we couldn't change due to the weather. The tools we used while creating the video were the camera, tripod, pumpkin, knifes, bowl, pen, spoon and towel.
Discuss editing and continuity:
There was a lot of editing our group had to do in order to get our video as short as possible. The main edit was to speed up of the whole video. We did this as carving the whole pumpkin took a lot of time to finish, over the course of 6 days in total. Overall we had about 1 hour and 30 mins of actual footage from the pumpkin carving. We managed to edit it by speeding it up and cutting unnecessary bits which cut it down to 2 mins. Even though we were meant to make it 90 seconds we ran out of time and were unable to finish our editing to make it fit the time scale asked. As we filmed over a number of days there may have been some continuity errors that occurred, for example one of the errors was the clothing on Leonie we were able to see this as she is carving you can see the different colour sleeves as the video goes along. Another continuity error that occurred was different movements of the bowl we contained the pumpkin flesh as sometimes it is close to the pumpkin and other times it is further away, this was due to filming on different days but a good thing is the errors was not pointed out in class and are hard
Discuss sound:
In our media production there wasn't any dialogue what so ever. Our aim was to get a Halloween themed sound track to play while the pumpkin was being carved, to show the effect and the theme of what we were doing. We couldn't manage to get the soundtrack we wanted imported into the video as we couldn't use the track due to copyright, instead to show that we wanted some audio in and so we wouldn't leave the soundtrack blank we imported a soundtrack we owned. The soundtrack we imported was a clip of Leonie singing her song. This soundtrack was not as relevant as it could have been as the theme of the video we made was different. This was a last resort in order to give some audio with the video.
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