8 Shot Journey

For my first project I had to make an 8 shot journey, this consisted of 8 different shots showing someone starting somewhere and getting to a destination. For my 8 shot journey I had my actor starting off on a bench outside the college and working his way through the college to get to a vending machine.

It started off with a simple storyboard depicting the locations and directions my actor would be walking in, to this I added what shots I would use and more detailed notes on what my actor would be doing during the shot. After having my storyboard checked by my teacher I got my taped and stripped about 20 minutes of it so when I filmed I wouldn’t have the trouble of it having many different start times. This made it much easier for me when I got to editing.

I then started filming my idea throughout my different locations and making sure I had the shots I really wanted. With my actor I had very little problems with the shots and what I wanted him to do. I only had to redo 2 shots and I was happy with the others. Most of my shots have very few extras walking through the shot because I filmed during very quiet hours of the college making my job much easier. There were 2 shots which I had to redo because of actor errors and prop problems, the first one was shot 3 where the turnstile wouldn’t open fully on each shot we did, so in the end I cut this out in the edit making the shot slightly shorter. The second shot that went wrong was shot 5, with this one people kept walking into the lift during the shot so we had to redo this one at a later time when people weren’t using the lifts so much.

When I had finished my video I had to write out a log sheet depicting my shots and their times. My log sheet shows all my shot times making things much easier for when I edit them, also it has a small comment on how the shot went and also the locations of each shot in the college.

When the film was finished I had to edit it to separate each shot I was using and have them in separate places on the sequence. I also had to cut out all the handles at the beginning and end of each shot I was using so there were not any blank spots in the film where nothing was happening. After editing these I had to make sure there were no problems with each shot and that they were in the right order for my film. After I had finished editing each shot to how I would like it I saved the file so I could then burn it onto a DVD.

I then had to compress my video to fit it onto my blog, to do this I had to use the compressor. I changed around the settings to how they needed to be for my video to be successfully compressed.

This is my final edit of my video.