CPDR Evaluation | 1000 WORDS
During the planning stage I believe we did well to plan every detail we could about how the shoot process. Our strengths really lied within the amount of detail we went into, for example we created a shot list based of the screenplay, which greatly help me in particular when it came to film as I had a sound understanding of how each shot was going to be framed and gave the producer and director clear instructions to give the actor. Despite this, we found that we didn't have time to block the shot list and so when we got to location on shoot day we were lost and had to setup the camera a lot bringing it back and forth until we decided to sit and try our best to block while on set. This helped a bit but next time I would want us to give ourselves some extra time for a little more planning. However, I found that the planning stage started too late not giving us enough time to work on production, this was due to us spending a large amount of time looking for a location that was within our budget. I believe we could have avoided this problem if we had adapted the script so our main character worked somewhere other than an office building.
When we got to the production we didn't give ourselves enough time to film. The first day we had filming was dedicated to very few shots for the flashback scenes and so this day went by swiftly and with very little problems. Although, the day was not problem free as we did encounter a lighting issue. We were filming out side and the scene was taking place at night and so we decided to go out late so we didn't have to rely on colour grading to make the scene night. However, we left it a little too late and some of the shots taken towards the end of the shoot were too dark and had to be cut from the film.
The second day of filming had more issues. The first issue was that we had only booked the office space for that one day and so we had to shoot more than three quarters of the film in one day. Another problem we encountered was with the windows in the room. We tried to block out the ambient light using a make shift blind which didn't block out all of the light and kept falling down. The first couple of times the blind fell down we were able to fix it, but when it fell down for the final time we didn't have any way of sticking back up and so the shots from this point on became lighter and need more grading than other clips to make them match.
Post-production ran without any problems and the process was quite smooth compared to the rest of the production. As the cinematographer I didn't do a lot of work on the edit. However, I made sure that I was available to be present during the edit to help were needed and input any advice when needed. I believe that the team work really well in the post-production stage as the editor, myself, producer and director where present to edit the visuals of the film and send that to the sound designer to create the sound. The only issue I had with the edit was only giving ourselves four days to edit the video and sound.
During the first piece we had to create a sound only piece which would create a sense of space. Myself and Jack decided that we wanted to create a song out of sounds that we found around Sheffield. This then was adapted to have a little bit at the beginning and end of the person walking through the city and finding each of the sounds as he walked. The main problem we faced we making this piece was when creating the sound we had little knowledge of Pro Tools and the plugins that it has and so all the notes in the song are in the same key as it was recorded. However, after having a session on using the plugins I am now able to use the plugins such as EQ and Reverb to change the key of individual notes.
The second half of this project was to create a video to accommodate the sound piece, for this Jack and I decided to alter the sound slightly. We came up with an idea to have a man, know only as "The Music Man", walk through a suburban park in his mind and isolate individual sounds that he'd use in his sound as he heard them. We encountered an issue with continuity due to the lack of planning we did for this piece. Due to time restraints we were unable to re shoot and so had to live with these continuity issues. However, it made us sure to plan during any future projects.
During the creation of our documentary I had the role of the visual editor which I have a sound understanding of. However, this project present many more tasks which I had not faced in previous films I had made. The first problem I encounter was the colour grading, I have a limited knowledge of how to colour grade a piece but I was able to quickly learn the use of Lumetri Colour in Premier Pro to correct the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and dark's. The main issue I faced when colour grading was getting all the clips to match as we filmed over several days and each shoot was lit with only ambient light. To overcome this issue I looked through all the shots used in the film and decided to make each of the clips match the darkest clip in the film as any attempt to brighten it up resulted in the shot becoming noisy.
I believe that during the course of this module I have managed to widen my knowledge of not only the technical aspects of film but also the written ones too. Due to the amount of planning I did in the last project and the lack of planning in the other projects I have learnt that planning out every detail of a film can dramatically improve the production time making it quicker and more efficient.
When we got to the production we didn't give ourselves enough time to film. The first day we had filming was dedicated to very few shots for the flashback scenes and so this day went by swiftly and with very little problems. Although, the day was not problem free as we did encounter a lighting issue. We were filming out side and the scene was taking place at night and so we decided to go out late so we didn't have to rely on colour grading to make the scene night. However, we left it a little too late and some of the shots taken towards the end of the shoot were too dark and had to be cut from the film.
The second day of filming had more issues. The first issue was that we had only booked the office space for that one day and so we had to shoot more than three quarters of the film in one day. Another problem we encountered was with the windows in the room. We tried to block out the ambient light using a make shift blind which didn't block out all of the light and kept falling down. The first couple of times the blind fell down we were able to fix it, but when it fell down for the final time we didn't have any way of sticking back up and so the shots from this point on became lighter and need more grading than other clips to make them match.
Post-production ran without any problems and the process was quite smooth compared to the rest of the production. As the cinematographer I didn't do a lot of work on the edit. However, I made sure that I was available to be present during the edit to help were needed and input any advice when needed. I believe that the team work really well in the post-production stage as the editor, myself, producer and director where present to edit the visuals of the film and send that to the sound designer to create the sound. The only issue I had with the edit was only giving ourselves four days to edit the video and sound.
During the first piece we had to create a sound only piece which would create a sense of space. Myself and Jack decided that we wanted to create a song out of sounds that we found around Sheffield. This then was adapted to have a little bit at the beginning and end of the person walking through the city and finding each of the sounds as he walked. The main problem we faced we making this piece was when creating the sound we had little knowledge of Pro Tools and the plugins that it has and so all the notes in the song are in the same key as it was recorded. However, after having a session on using the plugins I am now able to use the plugins such as EQ and Reverb to change the key of individual notes.
The second half of this project was to create a video to accommodate the sound piece, for this Jack and I decided to alter the sound slightly. We came up with an idea to have a man, know only as "The Music Man", walk through a suburban park in his mind and isolate individual sounds that he'd use in his sound as he heard them. We encountered an issue with continuity due to the lack of planning we did for this piece. Due to time restraints we were unable to re shoot and so had to live with these continuity issues. However, it made us sure to plan during any future projects.
During the creation of our documentary I had the role of the visual editor which I have a sound understanding of. However, this project present many more tasks which I had not faced in previous films I had made. The first problem I encounter was the colour grading, I have a limited knowledge of how to colour grade a piece but I was able to quickly learn the use of Lumetri Colour in Premier Pro to correct the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and dark's. The main issue I faced when colour grading was getting all the clips to match as we filmed over several days and each shoot was lit with only ambient light. To overcome this issue I looked through all the shots used in the film and decided to make each of the clips match the darkest clip in the film as any attempt to brighten it up resulted in the shot becoming noisy.
I believe that during the course of this module I have managed to widen my knowledge of not only the technical aspects of film but also the written ones too. Due to the amount of planning I did in the last project and the lack of planning in the other projects I have learnt that planning out every detail of a film can dramatically improve the production time making it quicker and more efficient.
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