Post Production

Have I used a film camera? What will I need to practice/work out?

I have no luck when it comes to cameras. All I used to think was just, point and click. Now that's all changed and I need to do some more research into things such as which cameras have the best specifications for this sort of activity. However I will, for sure, be using the camera on my iPhone to gain the handheld camera feel and to use it as a possible Point Of View aspect for our victim, as well as I will be testing out the quality of my little Sony camera and the college's Sony film camera. Obviously I recon the Sony film camera will be the best option, not only because it's specifically designed for filming, but rather because it's a flip screen. This means I can see how well the lighting and focus is while i'm filming as well as the positioning of the camera itself from a viewer's point of view.
I don't want to be too close to the camera that my head is too big and my voice is too loud and I don't what to be out of focus the entire time, and not know until I've already said and done everything. At least with a flip screen I can see the quality of the footage and adjust it to how I want it to look.

How is my editing? Do I know enough about the editing software I will need?

Back at high school, in Media Studies, I created various of my own mini adverts of abused children, animal cruelty awareness, and children suffering from depression or anxiety issues and edited all the footage. Granted, I was partnered up with someone else 😌 but we helped each other in areas the other one was least strong in. In my case, that was editing. Though saying this, we added music over the top of the footage, cut it down to size and chose the best scenes from the worst as well as using various technical camera angles and movements. And in our opinions, it worked.
I'm not saying it was the best. I'm not saying it was the worst, but it's all the editing experience I have and so for this project I know I'm going to have to brush up on more than just a few things.

Who will I involve as production staff/cast in my project?

To be honest so far it is really just me and my uncle who are involved in this project. He and I will be playing the roles for two of the three characters however I am struggling to find a third participant. 

My goal is to try and keep in as limited as possible because I want to see how much I can achieve independently and I think it will help me keep track of what's going on and I wouldn't have to worry about what other people are doing really. 

Production Staff

Courtney Simmonds - Producer, Editor, Scriptwriter, 

Camera Operator #1, Director, Makeup,

Wardrobe, Casting Director

Eddie Carrington - Co-Scriptwriter

Cast

Courtney Simmonds - Victoria 

Eddie Carrington - Alistair

? - Victim

Have I used Photoshop/visual media software?

During the time of GCSE I did have to use a bit of Photoshop to create and edit my magazine covers or even designing other forms of print media. Although I have to say I did not get on well with Photoshop due to simply I find it a bit confusing and often getting muddled with which button is which and what does what. However when it came down to editing footage, I would use Adobe Premier Pro and honestly I think I got on better with that than what I did Photoshop.
I don't know, maybe it all comes down to the simple fact that Print Media, in my opinion is...THE WORST. Or if in fact the layout of Photoshop confuses me. Whatever the reason, everyone is different so I either have to research other editing software or suck it up and crack on with what I've got... just ask someone for help is all 😌.

Where will my filming/editing/magazine construction take place? In college? At home?

The construction of the filming aspect of this project will mainly be within my own time outside college hours and will take place (majority of the time) in the evening. Now the summer is here, I plan to use the warm, brighter evenings to my advantage. In addition to this here are already a few locations in which I'm already thinking about where to hold my TELEVISION CLIP EXTRAVAGANZA!

(images of the castle (Carisbrooke), the graveyard (Carisbrooke Church/The Quarry, the woodlands (Parkhurst/Carisbrooke)
(google maps // post settings - Locations - address - hopefully so viewers can visit // check out for themselves)

However in saying this, I hope to use the college computer software mainly for my magazine and the editing of my short television clip.