My First Blog

Welcome to my blog. As I go through my project of creating and editing an opening to a Crime film, along with Luke Bravin and Jason Southern, I will post what we have done, how we've done it and other posts that show our influences, our props and our ideas
Before we started our Crime film project, my group was given a preliminary continuity task that involved filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character where they share a few lines of dialogue. The task was to help show that we can demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. However, we accidentally forgot about the 180-degree rule while filming. Fortunately, it was only a practice project so it wasn't too big a problem. It also helped us to learn from what we've done so we could improve our skills in the next project.
After the preliminary task, we went on to start our main task; creating and editing the titles and opening of a new Crime fiction film. It was to last two minutes, have original video and audio material and if music was used, it needed to be non-copyrightable.
Our Crime opening was about a drug addict called Jimmy (Luke B) who is kidnapped and interrogated by an unknown drug lord for the location of Jimmy's drug dealer supplier. Surviving the interrogation, he runs home where he tells his drug dealer, Big Arth (Luke M), about what happened. This leads Big Arth and Jimmy to go out and save their supplier, similar to the plot of the film 'Pineapple Express'.
The project was quite successful. We were able to record some good pieces of footage, managed to find non-copyrightable music that went well with the footage, and we used effects well (eg. black and white effects). However, our final piece was over two minutes long which meant we had to cut out many scenes to get it as close to the maximum time limit as possible.
Finally, we had to create a blog stating our progress through the projects. It charts my progress throughout the projects, referring to my research and planning, construction of my footage, my influences, my evaluation and more.
I hope you enjoy my blog.