Storyboard and Camera Use

 - Lesson 2 21/01/10 -

During this lesson, my group and I created our storyboard so that we knew what we wanted to film, and decided on what camera angles we want to use for each part of our video. On the storyboard we drew a picture of what the shot would look like, and wrote what would happen in each shot. We also decided how many shots there would be and we finalised the dialogue that would be said at the end of the video. We then took photos of the storyboard we had made and uploaded them onto the computer.

Part way through the lesson we got a camera to learn how to use it properly. We discovered how to remove the tapes, insert tapes and how to use each of the buttons to zoom in and out and to view what had been recorded.

Next lesson we shall start our recording as we now know what we want to film.

These are photos of our storyboard, showing the diagram of what will happen in each shot with a description stating the camera angles that will be used.

Storyboard and Preliminary Task

- Lesson 1 19/01/10 -

The very start of the lesson was made up by the creation of this blog as a way to track and record what I and my group are doing over the course of this task.

In this lesson we were introduced into the course, and started with our preliminary task. We were informed on how to correctly use the video camera, and told techniques like panning, rule of thirds and the 180 degree rule. We were also told how to change the lighting for indoors and outdoors to make sure that the colours and darkness are ok. We then started by getting into groups, with me were Henna and Robert. We created a spider diagram of our ideas, showing what we wanted to do with our video. We noted down the speech that would be done between the characters, and ideas for a location, props and costume. We also wrote down a couple of camera angles that we wanted to use, and wrote down the 180 degree rule to make sure we didn't make mistakes. We were happy with our rough ideas and started to work on our storyboard, but didn't have time to make any progress and instead finished the lesson with a blank sheet.

This is our spider diagram, which shows all of our ideas for the task. When we made the diagram, we were considering the location, costume, props, camera shots, characters and what would be said in the piece.