Reflection:
Having finished our script the previous lesson, we began to take photos for our storyboard today. A new member was added to our group today, Cynthia. While integrating her into the group and familiarizing her with our idea for the project, we managed to make some small edits to the script.
We walked all around the school looking for a good place to film. After finding an empty classroom, we took some pictures to capture the angle at which the movie would be filmed. The use of pictures and forward planning in a storyboard to remove future potential obstacles in camera placement when filming was very useful knowledge. Possible problems with lighting and angles at which all characters were improperly presented were taken care of before the actual filming took place, saving some time for when we do get down to shooting.
Evaluation:
Lighting and angles were some aspects of storyboard planning that took a lot of time to experiment with. Examining the use of angles and lighting (and the camera positioning and techniques used to adapt to the environment when altering the light is not possible) in successful films would be helpful in discovering the most effective methods of creating a certain atmosphere in the scene.
After taking shots of the location we intended to shoot in, we soon discovered that we were supposed to take photos with the characters in the frame, which meant that we wasted quite a lot of time. The actual taking of the storyboard photos took less than five minutes, though. We also spent a lot of time changing camera batteries, walking around looking for suitable filming locations, and making mistakes in understanding what we were supposed to do, but the process of planning camera angles, sizes of frames and character placements was a valuable learning experience.
Despite these drawbacks, we still managed to use our class time reasonably well, finishing on time before the end of class with time to spare. In future, hopefully we will listen more carefully to instructions and interpret them better so that we will have more time before the end of class to do other housekeeping activities. The fact that we did finish the script in the class before did remove the need to waste a lot more time, however, and we did have a lot of fun learning about different camera placements and how they affect the viewer.
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