8 shot journey evaluation

Before filming my 8 Shot jouney I had to first create a storyboard. The story board had to show all the shots that I would be filming as well as a description of what is taking place within that shot. A story board also has to meantion what shot type you want to use as well as any sound that takes place within the shot. As the 8 shot Journey I created was meant to be a silent task I didnt meantion anything about sound as there would be any in the film.

Once I'd drawn my storyboard I began 'striping' my tape ready for recording. Striping basically means recording nothing but a black screen. This is important because it helps you aviod taping over footage you recorded. After I striped my tape I gathered together a tripod and camera reday to film.

I directed the 8 shot journey with the help of David Howe as my talent. David's job was to do everything I told him to do. I tried to have every focal point covered throughtout each shot, which turned out to be trickier than I first thought it would be. The reason it proved tricky was because as a film maker I had to think how I'd show depth that would make the shot seem interesting instead of just a single character walking off screen. Once I'd added depth to the shot, I told David to do a run through without the camerea recording to double check that he knew what wanted him to do. I did this for Every shot I filmed and it worked out quite well as we only had about 4 retakes to film, and this partly because people walked in the way of the shot which distracted David.

Once I'd finished filming I uploaded all my footage onto ADOBE Final cut pro. Final cut pro is a video editing software program that is to a professional level. During uploading you need to place 'set in' and 'set out' points, this basically divides up the footage into clips. These clips then need to be 'batched' for them to work on the program ready to be edited. Once I had batched all my video clips I dragged them into a timeline placed at the bottom of the program. This allows to place the clips in any order I want to create a sequence. Once I did this I saved the project as 8 shot journey and then added titles at the beginning and at the end of the sequence and then burned the whole thing to a disc. Once I'd burned the video to Disc I played the disc and uploaded it onto youtube.

Overall the project went pretty well the only thing that went badly was caused by my own human error, that was that i forgot to remove the sound from the video meaning you can hear my voice on the video at the begining 'saying action.' Im future projects I will double check the audio before uploading it online.