ME-VID Evaluation

Me-Vid Evaluation

Pre-Production Skills

My pre-production skills were when i was planning out my script where i had to make a minimum of 80 shots that i would record or put images onto those shots, we used Microsoft Excel as we could use a sort of spreadsheet where we fill in what we will do on that shot number, scripting is very important as it tells us what we need to do and what order we need to do it in and following this would help us allot as we know what we have to do.

I also had to think of different things to do throughout my assignment such as finding locations and what angles i had to use, this opened a wide variety of options that i could use as i didn't have to stick with strict angle shots, i could use whatever angles and locations i wanted but there was one rule i was not allowed to break and that rule was the rule of thirds.

Production Skills

During the production of my Me-Vid i got use to handling the camera and using it in places where i wouldn't really use it and it also got me to plan thoroughly and use different locations to make it more unique and not as boring instead of me sitting in one place talking about myself, it got me to experiment with the camera and widen the way i can record.

Another production skill was using the green screen allowing me to use any background i wanted to, i used Stamford Bridge as my background as i support Chelsea but i also used it because i was talking about Chelsea and it would only make sense to use something relevant for my background, also it is a location that i find very interesting as i am into football and watch mostly every game of Chelsea that i can.

Post Production Skills

A skill i use in post production was making my graphics, i done this by using Live type to make writing appear on my screen such as my introduction, i used graphics into my project to make it look more interesting and i also gave my text a animated background to make it look even more better as it looks more advanced instead of having bad text and a plain background.

I used Final Cut Express to edit my project such as editing each clip that i recorded, when using final cut express it allows me to trim the parts that i don't need into my Me-Vid so it allows me to trim and make it run more smooth so you don't hear "1 2 3 action" so it goes straight to me talking about what i need to, this program allowed me to do all sorts with my clips and improve them, i could cut, trim and allow some sort of effects into my Me-Vid.

How Will The Skills Learnt During ME-VID Help You In Your Music Video Production?

It has helped me as i will now know what i have to do in scripting when i have to plan out 200+ shots for my music video as i have done it in my Me-Vid, it will also help me when i need to edit my clips as i have used final cut express and Live type before so i will know how to use all these programs in the future.

Overall doing my Me-Vid was like doing work experience because i am getting a taster of what i will be doing in my music video, so now i know what software's i will have to use and how to function them properly without getting confused, i now know how to edit and make graphics (Text) appear on my screen when i need it to this allows more thing to open up in my video.

Jack Mann ME-VID

Script

The Encounter Final

Camera and editing Techniques

During our film i was using the 180 degree rule, this is where i am not allowed to cross an imaginary line going through a circle so there i would be on one side of the action the whole time and i used this when recording when we were doing our shot reverse shot.

Shot reverse shot, i used this shot when our dialogue came in, when doing Connors dialogue we kept the camera still and made him say all his lines and we did the same for Zahir and at the end when we came to editing it worked perfectly as it made like the camera was there the whole time and never moved but you just couldn't see it but it was us really just getting all the dialogue done before moving the camera.

We used a track from when Connor is walking across the walkway to the door and how we did this was just by simply following the action (Connor) walking to the door and this was simply all we had to do for that shot, but you are not allowed to move the camera up or down or diagonally it was just a simply left to right but tracking Connor.

When editing we used cuts about 95% of the time, cuts are really important as they can do many things from seeing some ones point of view or changing the scene entirely in our work we used both, when Connor spoke we change to Connors face and the same for Zahir but when we had to go into a different room we used cuts to get rid of the boring stuff and make the film look as realistic as possible.

We used rule of thirds in every scene as this is the one rule that can never ever be broken as it keeps all the focus on the person you are recording so at no point in our film we didn't use this, the rule of thirds is where you keep the person you are recording eyes a third of the way down the screen.

We also used match on action in our film when Connor was opening the door, we did this by recording one side of the door being opened all the way and than done the same on the other side and we just simply cut out the bit from where we wanted the door to be opened from in the previous shots and than we put both shots together to make the door look like it was being opened all in one making a smooth transition.

The Evaluation

I used the 180 degree rule when i was recording Connor and Zahir, I imagined there was a circle but with a line directly through it, this made me stick to one side of the circle, using this stops the audience from getting confused

I always used the rule of thirds because this rule should never be broken, how I maintained this was easy, all i did was keep the person i was recording their eyes a third of the way down doing this allows all the focus on the person you are trying to record.

I used match on action when Connor was opening the door, we did this by recording him opening the door fully on one side then recording him doing it again but on the other side of the door, when showing it from different sides of the door and making the door open smoothly in both scenes this allows the scene to look like it has two cameras but there isn't actually two its just how smoothly the scene runs

The challenges I had when filming was when we began to film the tripod we had got given would not stand up straight so we had to record our film in a certain way but  we had overcome that as it wasn't actually that bad where we couldn't record, but in the future we will get tripod that will stand up straight so we can record perfect.

Our main challenge during post production was because of personal reasons, my team didn't come in with their storyboards so in order to move on we had to redo our whole storyboards when we could have been recording, so when we done all our storyboards we really had one day to record our film so we felt rushed but in the future we will give the storyboards to someone who is more responsible and will come in no matter what.

My overall strength when recording was i had a good strength of planning what we would have to be doing during our film and i was able to tell my crew what they had to do when recording to make our film look much more better, also when recording i had good camera work of using all the shots that we needed too, i am also someone who likes to continue doing things until they are perfect and as an outcome of that our film looked really good.

Overall weaknesses was when we began to get into the dialogue of our film my crew would speak fast and hesitate, from this I believe they are camera shy so when filming you could see this in the end product where they couldn't act normal and they began to make their body all stiff and this really made the film not look as good as it should have done.

For improvements if i had the same crew i would try to make them feel as natural as possible so our film looks as realistic as possible as no one wants to see people looking forced to do something they can't do, also i will continue to take the job as the responsible one as I haven't missed one day of school yet where as my crew have missed a few lessons each.

Jack Mann StoryBoard

Over the past week we have been story-boarding our plan where we have to record someone opening a door, walking across the room and talking to someone, what we did was we made a plan before of what we are going to say and what we are going to do and we put it all together on the storyboard, the storyboard is very important and we must strictly stay with it and what it says we must do as if we don't we will get confused and we wont know what we are doing and most likely fail so we must strictly stick with what we have done. Our plan was Connor and Zahir are talking about football but in our shots we made sure to take each shot more than twice so that way we can pick the best one out of the 3 so than we wont have to go back and record even more.