First Task - Journey

This lecture consisted of producing a short film on a journey. This could've been a typical journey such as your walk to university, a bus ride, love story etc. However we was told to move away from this initial thought path and think outside the box. We was put into groups and we started the pre production of a journey. In our group we had many ideas however we all agreed they was too basic. We finally decided on a journey of a person reading someone's diary. 

I knew the main element would be the frames and what we needed to express the journey efficiency. We agreed on what roles we would undertake, with this in mind we began storyboarding. 

As a group we decided these were going to be the main frames:

• Person coming in and finding the diary
• Sitting down and reading it
• Views of different emotions whilst reading
• Slamming the diary down in anger

With this in mind, we began seeing how it would look in production, we sat in one of the sound booths because this was our location. The actor had to do facial expressions as he was reading. As he was reading what a mystery person had wrote about him. As a group we decided to have laughing, sad and anger. We needed to make the viewer aware so out next stage was to think about how we could do achieve this. After much debating, we used a pan shot. This also gave the effect time had gone by, which fitted in nicely. 

This was my first time on a camera, and thinking about each frame is very important. We also had difficulties with editing in camera as we had to rewind the tape back several times. This slowed down our production. When producing a film again I would take more time on the frames first as this slowed us down.