We then began to write our script as a group. As the film is only five minutes we need to dialogue and descriptions to a minimum, again using 'show don't tell'. As our piece has a lot of depth and things that happen we are going to include montages in order to show everything we need to to make the story flow. This means we will probably keep dialogue to a minimum.

We also started to look at writing our scripts. Because the film is only 3-5 minutes long, the script must be 3-5 pages. (page per minute).

A director is primarily responsible for communicating the creative vision of the film, marking up scripts and working with the actors in rehearsal and on set.

A producer is primarily responsible for organising the work flow, securing locations, health and safety, financing and equipment. Also budgeting!

We looked at many thinks that factor into visual style such as:

• Frame composition

• camera shots

• camera angles

• movement of the camera

• basic shooting techniques (180' rule)

• colour

• lighting techniques

We talked about typical problems that we could face when recording such as weather and external/internal noise.

Poor sound recording can detrimentally affect the viewers expectations of the film. So having good sound quality is incredibly important. If the sound on a film is of bad quality it is less likely the viewers will pay attention than if it had bad visuals.

Editing is the most important thing when it comes to a film. It helps piece together the narrative and make the storyline flow.

Continuity editing:

• The illusion of temporal and spacial continuity

• The process of preserving temporal continuity

• Films are usually shot out of sequence and then reassembled in such a way that events transpire in a coherent and continuous format/narrative

Basic techniques of continuity editing:

• Ellipsis - An apparent break in time in the narrative world.

• Usually signifies by a dissolve/ fade to black etc.

• Sound - diegetic/non diegetic.

• Match on action/Match cut - When one shot to another shot portraying the action of the subject.

Primary pre production include:

• Casting

• Rehearsing

• Deciding on camera and lighting set ups

• Securing locations

• Recess + risk assessments

• Sourcing costumes, props + set dec

Producer tasks:

• Break down script

• Start finding + securing locations

• Casting

• Work out schedule

Director tasks:

• Script mark up

• Statement of intent

• Mood boards

• Meet with your team

Camera/lighting/sound tasks

• meet with director

• Floor plans + storyboards

• Shot list

• Meet with team

We got together in our groups to discuss what each member o the team would bring to the next session in order to prep us for shooting.

We then organised a production meeting to discuss who we wanted to be in our film, shoot dates, costume and other things.

We discussed marking up scripts, shot lists, storyboards and the statement of intent.

Filming was a really fun experience with this film and many laughs were had on set :)

Both actors were awesome! they worked well with our direction and helped to bring our vision to life in the best way possible.

Thanks Gemma and Chris :)

I tried with the boom mic audio to begin with but felt that the camera audio sounded better. this was because of slight knocks to the boom mic causes jolts in the audio.

These were

• Types of cut

• Transitions

  
  

  I used mostly 'standard cuts' as i felt these fit the film better. I did think about using jump cuts but felt that standard cuts flowed better.

  
  

Dialogue

Nothing went wrong with our dialogue recording except the few knocks to the boom mics. i tried to mitigate this when editing but because the audio was jolted decided to use camera audio. Also our boom mic died at one point and we struggled to find batteries for a few hours. We recorded the scenes anyway as the camera had audio. the make the audio consistent when editing, i used camera audio throughout the film.

Sfx

there aren't really any sfx in our film apart from phone notification sounds which we recorded on the boom mic.

Music.

Originally, i only wanted music to play over the credits. However, when editing, i thought one of the scenes would look cool if i had music playing over it as if it was coming from a speaker.

I worked again on sound editing, making sure that everything was sounding okay and that the music i added wasn't too overpowering.

Throughout the film, I added blue colour grading to give it a whimsical feeling, seeing as the film is meant to be an alternate reality. It didn't go very well at first as i was adding to dark of a blue and was making the clips look too over saturated as the kitchen wall we filmed in front of was green.

i then added transitions to my film. There is two scenes in the film with time changes. One going from morning to midday and the other evening to morning. I added fade to black transitions as I though these showed this well. I could have maybe chosen transitions with more technicality but felt like fade to black fit better.

I made a title card and added it to the end of my film. i felt this fit better with the flow of the film at the start and also fit better with the credits.

As our film is called 'The other side of the apron',i thought it would be really cool if imported a picture of a white apron and put the name of the film inside it in black writing.

Credits

For the credits, I added the actors names first and then the camera lighting and sound, with the producer and director at the end.

I used a plain black screen with white writing for the names. But added a font that i thought fit the essence of the film. in short, a 'girly' font.

Im rather proud of this film. It could be seen as weird by some people because of the concept but seeing as we an all female production team, we thought it would be quite funny to show what we feel it would like if a man got a period.