Photos

My creative background.

I love photography and I took it up as a hobby about 3 years ago. Just over a year ago I decided to teach myself how to use Photoshop. These are some photo's I have taken recently.

Making of awkward turtle

Firstly we sat down and thought about how we were going to go about filming. Our group met a couple of times over a coffee and eventually after a lot of discussion we came to the conclusion we were going to make a film about a creepy guy, who spends his life in a lift waiting for the girl of his dreams.

Once we had a rough idea we went about finding a suitable place to do the filming luckily this didn't take very long at all and everyone agreed that the lift outside Uri's flat would be perfect.

The script was then written up and an actress was found to play the part of the unfortunate lady this creep happens to admire. We were set to go and make our film.

The day of filming we all eventually met up at the lift we were going to film. Our first task was to find the best camera position we found that by having the camera up high and slightly offset it gave the impression that it was a security camera, giving the scene a sense of reality.

After we had the camera set up and the lights in place we hit a big problem which we already could see coming. We were filming in a lift and people tend to be lazy and like to use lifts rather than stairs and so we had a lot of interruptions and annoyed people. We persevered we had to we had to make a film by 5 o clock we were against the clock. So after perfecting the scene outside the lift we were ready. We got lucky no one had to use the lift and we had just what we wanted in just the second take.

The Tuesday after filming we had a lesson teaching us how to edit the films. We then set about about adding music and subtitles. We also are going for the cringe humour style to film to add some interest and to do this we are going to edit in some voice overs which will act as the characters thoughts this will be done soon and I shall let you know more when we have a finished film.

One shot short films

For the last 2 weeks now I have been working in a group which I have been calling the film crew to make a film about anything we wished. We weren't allowed full creative licence however and we have had to abide by some rules these were:

• The camera had to stay on a tripod
• The film must be under 5 mins
• The film must be made in just one shot

The first week!

In the first week we all made white board animations and pinhole cameras both of which were very good fun and a great way to meet people in my group. Both tasks went really well and although I didn't learn anything new it was a great way to refresh my memory and work in a team.