This post is about the talk the class recieved from year 13 students explaining the do's and don't's of filming.
At the start of the lesson introducing us to the coursework element of the course we were given a talk by year 13 students that have already done the thriller coursework. This talk involved hints and tips about what we need to do for our main video and also the preliminary task, these tips included; make sure you have plenty of footage as some will be edited out and make sure you have several takes of each scene as something might happen in the background of one scene and if a re-take is needed the continuity may be effected due to things like weather or clothing. Everything needs to match well in the 2 minute opening sequence because if the continuity isn't right the whole video will look wrong, for example, if one scene was done in the rain and another during snow the scene would look out of place because the audience think that it is immediately after the previous scene creating confusion amongst the viewers. Another tip was to only include dialogue if it is really necessary because sometimes speech can ruin the suspense, as we were shown a previous year group's video where a man shown in the video as a 'tough guy' speaks and is not a typical 'tough guy' character, this ruined the look of the entire clip.
By Ben Marshall
At the start of the lesson introducing us to the coursework element of the course we were given a talk by year 13 students that have already done the thriller coursework. This talk involved hints and tips about what we need to do for our main video and also the preliminary task, these tips included; make sure you have plenty of footage as some will be edited out and make sure you have several takes of each scene as something might happen in the background of one scene and if a re-take is needed the continuity may be effected due to things like weather or clothing. Everything needs to match well in the 2 minute opening sequence because if the continuity isn't right the whole video will look wrong, for example, if one scene was done in the rain and another during snow the scene would look out of place because the audience think that it is immediately after the previous scene creating confusion amongst the viewers. Another tip was to only include dialogue if it is really necessary because sometimes speech can ruin the suspense, as we were shown a previous year group's video where a man shown in the video as a 'tough guy' speaks and is not a typical 'tough guy' character, this ruined the look of the entire clip.
By Ben Marshall
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