Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tutorial Four & Five: Video Production Sessions

In these two tutorials, we made a short video, which was pretty fun, though coming up with something to do proved to be a slight challenge……we made a movie on “Toilet Troubles” which I have already posted on this blog. To be able to put it on this blog, we uploaded it onto a website called YouTube.

YouTube is yet another blog, where you can upload videos and watch other videos. You can also comment on the videos and rate them also. YouTube is another very useful website for studying, especially for presentations – if you don’t want to talk or do role plays, you are most likely able to find a video that is suitable for what you are presenting, off YouTube.

We planned and storyboarded our short video before going on to film it, as we needed a rough idea of what shots we wanted, and how we were going to take them. We only used 6 main shots, due to time constraints. It is much easier to film something if you know what you want to do, and how you are going to do it, beforehand. We decided what angles the shots were to be taken from, and then proceeded to do the filming. The planning meant less time was required for the filming process, as we knew what to do, though we had to film each shot several times to get it good as possible. So if you want to give making a film a go, plan it first, it will definitely make things easier for you!

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