Planning -Storyboading Miss B

Storyboarding before filming is really important as it saves a lot of time therefore before the filming and production of my thriller as a group we each created a drawn storyboard in order to create basic outline of the story line with the same ideas but just having our own copy .This made it easy for me and my group to follow whilst filming. Storyboard before the filming of any film is important as the crew know what micro elements need to be added in specific scenes and which shots follow into each other.

Our storyboard that we were able to come up with , its features include clear images and the micro-elements we will use in our thriller. It is well organized and visibly presented. This will help us when it comes to filming our thriller film as we can easily know what’s going to happen in our thriller and we now know who is needed, when they are needed and where they are needed in each shot.

Our storyboard

Creating drawn storyboards has helped me and my group with the preparation of our thriller film. It has also helped us by knowing what micro elements needs to be used in each scenes and gives the production crew a clear understanding of the thriller.

Planning- Preliminary task- Miss B

Before we actually filmed our actual thriller we had to gain some experience to how  to operate the camera , making sure we are familiar with the use of camera . In a group of 3 we were asked to film about 3 minutes of preliminary task , getting as many shots in order for us to cut and edit to make a final piece  Its important for us to create a preliminary task because when we actually film our thriller trailer it wouldn't take long to figure out how to use the camera and also our teacher will see a big improvement as our actual thriller will be shot very well compared to the preliminary task.

We had to come up with a scenario , in my group we didn't really think about it , we just done random shots from different angles etc. We had myself and jemar walk through the corridors and outside( the playground) .

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At first in my group we all had the chance to film but then realized Relande should  be the camera operator because he knew how to use the camera and was much better then the rest of us. We all sort of directed it also we let Relande do the editing because we knew he would be much quicker and seemed like he knew what he was doing unlike the rest of us never the less that different stop us from having a go.


During filming myself ,Jemar and Relande did come across some difficulties for example i didn't know how to use the camera at first. When it came to editing we couldn't find some of the our chosen shots that was saved on a USB so we had redo it  and , find the shots we needed. We also found it a bit hard to start editing but eventually we over came that.

From this preliminary task i learned that i should not be the camera operator when it comes to filming our actual thriller however i learned the that when filming it doesn't have to be perfect because then you wouldn't have much to edit and there's a lot u can do with the editing.


Conclusion

Overall doing this preliminary task has helped myself and the rest of my group develop skills and  prepared us for making our actual thriller , we won't waste so much time trying to figure out how to operator the camera or who should do it because now we have a clear idea of who should be taking that role. Moreover our teacher will see the diffidence between the preliminary task and our actual thriller therefore she will see the massive improvement. It also helped us save a lot of  time as we now know how to use a lot of the tools etc.