The Business

Here is my "8 Shot Journey".

For the project, me and James worked together, he was the actor while I was was the camera man. Before we could start filming, I had to stripe my tape which is the process of recording a blank screen so to make sure that no previous filming. My film started with James waking up in the class room, with the camera in a midshot. As he wakes up, he looks at his watch. The 2nd shot is a extreme close up of his eyes in which they turn from sleepy to suprised. 3rd shot is of James walking out of the room in a mid shot, obviously dropping his ID card, which is a major feature of the film. 4th shot is of James walking down the corridor, passing someone as he goes off camera in a longshot. 5th shot is of James running through the atrium in an extremely high vantage, high angle shot. 6th shot is a mid shot of where James runs to the lifts just as the doors close. 7th shot is a long shot of James finding that the door he's run to is locked and that he's lost his ID Card. 8th and final shot is close up of the Card scanner.

This final shot brings the plot full circle, establishing that he's forgotten his ID card and his Journey has been for nothing. Throughout filming we had to do many takes on the more public shots, due to people disrupting the filming by standing infront of the camera and so on. We got past this by managing to find some secluded locations which may not of made sense to someone familiar with the building. To quote John Dempsy "The camera is an idiot magnet..." which I would definately agree with.

After finally completing filming I went into editing in which by using my log sheet, I cut apart the film, editted out the parts of the film which were not needed and put in some extra effects and title sequences in Final Cut Pro. The program was reletively easy to use once we'd been shown what to do. I have used Windows Movie Maker before which is sort of similar.

Personally I think that the whole project went well and I was pleased with the outcome. In the future I would probably need to find a way to get rid of the disruptive people who tend to ruin the filming. Overall, that was the only thing I hated about the experiance.