Direction Unit: My Final Piece

Direction Unit: Deadline Day

Today is deadline day and I am quite calm for a change as I have managed my time well with this project and have not had to do much work to my piece today apart from making sure the credits matched everyone elses. I'm pleased with how my film has come out I've worked really hard on it to make sure it looks professional and interesting. I've used everything I have learnt from previous projects to help me make a piece which I am really happy with. But from doing this project I have also learnt a few things which will help me on future projects and they are:

• To always make sure you have enough coverage
• Make sure the sound is being recorded properly by using a boom mic if the actors are far away
• Make sure you watch your actors carefully to make sure their movements are something you want their characters to be doing 

I also learnt from this project that I do enjoy being the director but it can be quite stressful keeping an eye on everything and there is alot of preparation involved and if you don't do that then you will be very unprepared.

I've finished everything now and I'm ready to upload.

Direction Unit: Editing

I've began to edit my clips so that the scene flows better and will be interesting for the viewer. I've realised that my video is not going to reach 3 minutes I think this is because I cut so much out of my script. I will do the best with the footage I have and make sure next time that my script is the correct length to make the scene the length I want it to be.

Narrative and Genre: Essay Help

This morning Maddie, Dean and I all went to see Rachel Kitchen to get some help with our essays as we were unsure on how to structure them and what exactly we needed to include. She helped us alot with figuring out a structure:

1. Introduction
2. Context - What is narrative tools and genre
3. Example - X Factor, choose a specific episode or character
4. How online transmission could effect the narrative tools and genre
5. Conclusion 

She also said to make sure you use a variety of sources and to try and in bed the quotations in your sentences as well as putting them in to show what someone has said.

We also went and saw Nick in the library who taught us about the online resources the uni has to help us with our essays.

Both Nick and Rachel were a great help and I now have a greater understanding of the question, how to structure my essay and where is best to find my research.

Direction Unit: Beginning My Editing

Today I started editing my shots together using Final Cut Pro. I first sorted all of my shots into separate bins so that they were organised and I could find the shot I was looking for more easily. I then began putting the clips I wanted on the time line as a rough idea of what I wanted and I will go back through and edit them together more thoroughly so that they flow much better together. I also made sure I left a gap at the beginning so that when I have finished editing completely I can insert the "Directors 13" titles as well as my own.

Direction Unit: My Shoot

Today it was my turn to film and I feel it went really well. I was pleased with my actors performances and my crew worked really hard to help me achieve the look I wanted and get all the shots I needed to create my scenes.
A big thank you to everyone who helped me today I really appreciate it.

Direction Unit: Shot List Updated

Shot List for Mistresses

Scene 1

1.    Wide of the whole scene from the doors

2.    Wide of whole scene from the oven

3.    Mid shot Jess – drying hands saying “You see married men...No mess, no fuss.”

4.    2 shot Jess and Katie whole scene – camera follows Katie when she sits down. When Jess says “We’ve been waiting...” she stands up and the camera follows.

5.    Mid shot Trudy

6.    Close Trudy

7.    Mid shot Jess

8.    Close Jess

9.    Mid shot Katie

10. Close Katie

11. 2 shot Jess & Trudy – Jess by the microwave reading letter and Trudy sitting down from Trudy “Fancy” to “It came this morning

12. Mid shot Jess – by the microwave reading letter from Trudy “fancy” to “it came this morning” camera follows Jess

13. Close up of the letter – “So you've scored a million and pulled on the same day”

Scene 2

14. 2 shot of Jess and Trudy – “see ya Trud”

15. Mid shot Trudy – Trudy shuts the door camera pans and follows her into the kitchen

Scene 3

16. Wide of whole scene from the doors

17. Wide of whole scene from the door frame

18. Long of Katie whole scene - Katie reading the letter

19. Over the shoulder of Katie whole scene

20. Mid close of Katie whole scene

21. Close of Katie whole scene

22. Long of Trudy whole scene– Trudy clearing up

23. Over shoulder of Trudy whole scene

24. Mid close of Trudy whole scene

25. Close of Trudy whole scene