Introduction to Film-making #3

To warm up, we thought of 10 different sentences about yourself starting with "I am...."

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We then had to say 5 different sentences starting with "You are....." to the person on our left.

We basically learnt how little we know about the people in the room, how unimaginative we are and how cold we all were.

We then came up with our own story grids and filled a blank one in. Our group did conventions of Horror/Thriller/Psychological genres. Despite a few silly ones, ours worked! We tested out each other's and came up with brief story lines for them. My favourite one was for the Action/War genre where an alien invades a restaurant taking over our chefs and poisoning the food. The humans find out and revolt. Dianne was more concerned about what weapons they will fight with (a giant food fight?) than the whole concept.

In Mike's session, we looked at roles in the industry using the website creativeskillset.org. 

• Master shot- something to edit with. Shot of all the action and dialogue
• Coverage- all the other shots. Could be a two shot, CU, etc. 

We then filmed a short narrative using 7 different shot types, with a torch being in at least 3 of them. We tried to put a story to ours but ran out of time to film all the shots! We managed to get a CU, MS, and WS. Our framing was good though. However the very first shot was too dark and is hard to tell what it is, even though we were shining a torch onto it.