From looking at videos like this one and many other different types of cctv videos, there was many similarities between them all. They were mostly in black and white, blurry/pixilated, they showed the time and date. They were also filmed from above looking down on the scene of events.

My One shot short film!

One shot short film!

As part of the one shot short films we were to work in a group to produce a one shot film. Once our group was selected were we told to make a practice short one shot film. We discussed ideas, a blind date, like someone getting stuck in a lift, a day in the life of a student, an advert, but we decided to make a short film about us as a group discussing what to make our one shot film about, we would pretend we had accidentally left the camera running. We tried this out a few times, but it didnt work as it was hard to hear what was going on and the the script was made up and not very natural. But from watching back the film we had just created, it looked and sounded like it was almost like a cctv camera watching as, without us knowing. We then came up with a more choreographed sequence of events. the story was about a girl dropping her purse, which was then to be stolen by a passer by. This idea worked much better as it wasnt dependant on getting really good sound of any one talking, which was difficult with our equipment and location. it also worked well as it was simple, and the camera looked like a real cctv camera as it was filmed from above and with jolted camera movements like a automatic camera.

After the success of our first short film we decided to meet up on friday the 13th to complete our proper shot film. We thought up ideas and talked about the success of our last project and we all really like the idea and the effectiveness of filming as if it was a cctv camera. We then realized it was Friday 13th and thought about making a film about bad luck on four different people in one location in one shot!

We thought about things that happen which seem like bad luck and thought about how and where we could film them. We came up with ideas like walking under ladders, seeing black cats and things like that, but these we difficult to recreate as none of us owned a black cat or had a ladder handy. So we thought about things that we did have or could have for the shot. We came up with things like slipping on banana skins, forgetting keys, having your drink fizz up and spill all over you, and having the a cash machine out of order.

I think the filming went well, and we managed to get it done after a few takes and everyone's movements and acting worked well to achieve their desired outcome of miss fortune. Mine was to slip on a banana peal, this wasnt very difficult to do as they are just as comical as in cartoons as i found out after 5 or 6 takes. The reaction from me is real as every time we did it, I very nearly did fall flat on my face! Everyone was happy with what we had produced, and I was looking forward to editing our film and adding more detail to it to make it look more like real cctv, like being in black and white and so on..

Then it was our next seminar where we uploaded our film onto premiere. To make it look like a cctv camera we turned it to black and white, and played with the contrast. We then added a' noise' filter to make it look grainy. We thought that the film started to quickly, so we copied a section showing the empty hallway and then pasted it at the start of our film and stretched it so it lasted for short time. We also added a beeping sound to the start to make it feel like the the camera was being started by me entering the shot. We then played with the ending to make it quite funny. Caleb slips on the banana here, and we copied it and then pasted it three times to emphasise him slipping, and the third part we stretched to make it slow motion. This i feel gave the film a comedy note to finish on as you see him start to fall over but dont actually get to see the event happen. We then reduced the background noise, but still managed to keep the noise of the drink spilling quite well. We wanted to add sound effects, but we couldn't find a sound that was just how we wanted it and we wanted the piece to look real, rather than having an artificial sound playing though out. We then added a date and a clock to our film that was created in flash to make it look even more like cctv. We also added a title and an ending title to our film. We used simple text just like the font used in the clock in our film.

Overal I feel our group worked well together to come up with an interesting idea that worked well and we produced an amusing one shot short film.

Presto!

Is about a stage magician's rabbit, that is hungry and forgotten. The rabbit called 'Alec' gets in to a fight with the magician during his magical hat though the means of a set of magical hats. I feel the story works well as its a simple story line and a magic trick we all know about, but doesn't go the way we expect. In this scene new technology is used by pixar to create better motion blurs when the characters are moving face to give it more realism.

One shot short film!

One shot short films

Unlike the previous task of producing a pixilation animation, I have never done any type of video production/film producing. I was interesting in seeing what we were going to be doing as it was something I have never done before. We started off the session looking at risk assessment....to be honest was the most boring hour ever! but i understand why it has to be done! although Im still not looking forward to filling one in again. The other half of the session we were divided into groups to come up with a story on the theme of horror. As a group we came up with one of the longest and most detailed short story as well all had ideas and i felt we worked well together to come up with a very creative, maybe not a 100% original idea but it was different and worked well with are theme.

we also looked at different examples of short films. My favourite was a Touch of Evil. it was created in 1958 and was based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson and is a black-and-white film, and said to be one of the last examples of film noir.

It starts off with an extreme close up of a man putting a bomb into the boot of a car and is a one shot until the car explodes after crossing the american boarder. This sequence is a great opening as it introduce the film with mystery as to who was that man and why that car. The music also sets the scene as it sounds like its from mexico and the ticking of the bomb matches the timing of the music.

Pixilation!

This is my pixilation Animation which I created during the first rotation. I feel that it still needs some work doing to it so Im going to improve the timings and add some music to the animation, but overall I am pleased with the way its turned out. I like the way the it can be played this way or played backwards and it would still have the same story line in it.

This my pin hole camera photograph.

I like the way the camera is able to capture detail in the foreground and the background with becoming to blurry. I also like the white vertical line in the image that was created by the light shinning of the inside of the can. Also i like how the photo looks like it was taken with a fish eye lens.

Pin hole camera Photo!

At the very start of the term I, along with every one else produced a pin hole camera out of a beer can and then used this to capture a photograph for 8 seconds. This is my photograph of this task. This is also my favourite image I captured, as it was taken in a graveyard and the beer can camera was placed upon a headstone on the ground. Although it wasn't intensional, the inscription was captured with in my image creating more interest in the foreground and adds more detail to the overall image captured.