Lesson 2: Today started off with a small activity of getting to know to know what a shooting script was and how to use it. I found out that a shooting script is a deatiled, presise, overwritten version of documenting a films - or in our case an opening sequences shot by shot. Its an organised way of keeping track of everything and also saves time, so that the production stage is completed with ease, as you cannoit forget anything, since its documented. A shooting script consists of many things such as; the shot number, the location, the shot type, the angle, the movement of the shot, the duration of the shot, the dialouge, the music/sound effects, the description of action happening in the shot, the cast and finally the equipment or proops used within that shot. Below is a rough example of a typical shooting script.
Next me and my classmates were then given a shooting script that was completed by a past student. At first glance i instantly thought it was very good since it looked detailed. As a group of four me and my classmates were then given the task of actually filming what the shooting script instructed. Its after doing this task i we all recognised how difficult and confusing it was, as it lacked a lot detail since it was not specific and we had to do a lot of guess work. Limitations of this students work was that the cast was not clear, the description if action was very abstract, the use/ placement of props was not clear as well as the placement of where the characters stood within the shot and lastly where the camera was postitoned. Knowing this now i know when it comes to my work i will make it very clear who plays who by maybe adding a key at the top just for clarity. Moreover, i will just make sure i will be adding constant detail of where everything is positioned in brackets.
Lesson 3: This lesson focused on the teacher introducing us to the other pieces of pre production work which included; Shooting script, Call sheet, Production Schedule, Location Recci and Project log for the week. After this me and my partner then focused on starting the work for the rest of the lesson. Lastly, the treatment was edited and uploaded.
Lesson 4: This lesson the teacher provided us with the shooting script requiremnts which were to make sure it totaled to two minutes ( which was the brief requirements), it also had to be around 30-40 shots long, making sure of the pace editing and the music type. It had to include all graphics e.g. titles, production credits etc. Moreover it had to include all sounds even digetic sounds / voiceovers and it had to be in chronological order of how we want it to be portrayed to out target audience. Lastly, the most important thing was to be creative with the sounds and camera language but not steering away from the breifs instrustions to be typical of british social realism. Next we was given a list of DO's and DONT's, which was based upon some of the points we made in lesson 2.
The rest of the lesson was then spent completeing the rest of the pre - production work that was introduced to us in lesson 3.
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