Including early drafts of the product is a good idea. Ideally these should be embedded in the diary/log with plenty of reflection. These could be referred to in response to the CCR questions



Filming

Over the weekend, Julia and I filmed the rest of our video.  Earlier in the week, we filmed at school for the classroom and hallway scenes.  Filming had its challenges but overall it was successful.

At school, filming was fairly easy.  We asked about seven classmates to help us in creating the scene.  We had them sit in the desks around Julia to make it look like a full classroom.  We just asked them to act like they were taking notes in a normal classroom.  We stuck to our storyboard plan and only made a few minor changes while filming.  For example of some changes we made, few of the shot types we original planned did not look the way we wanted it too.  Either the angle did not work or it took the audiences attention away from Julia.

To get the shots of the clock, Julia carefully stood up on a chair and filmed the clock.  We had to make sure that the glare of the camera was not in the frame of the shot.  This was harder to do because it was challenging to not get the glare and still have the clock in the middle of the shot.  After a few try we finally got it perfectly.

For the hallway scene,  we had the same classmates help us with the scene.  We did change the way we original planned to film this scene.  Instead of me filming from a stand still, we decided it looked better if I walked in front of Julia as she moved through the hallway.  The hand held shot, makes the audience feel more like they are in a busy high school hallway.  We had Luis, one of our classmates bump into Julia as she was walking in the hallway.  Julia then dropped her stuff and no one helped her pick it up.  This was to help show that Julia’s character was lonely and depressed.

When we filmed the rest of the bathroom scene we faced a few more challenges.  We had to make sure that Julia’s phone did not get damaged when we filmed the underwater scenes.  Even though it is not the most protective and dependable, we used a plastic bag for Julia phone to go in.  It allowed us to have a clear shot and still have the sound of underwater. While filming, we saw that having the flash on would make the shots clearer yet still create low – key lighting.

The candidate is clearly reflecting on their work and is earning marks for this. For these marks to move beyond a level 3, the candidate should develop their reflection on their own work to include stills to illustrate, discussion of alternative approaches, perhaps with test shots, feedback from test audiences, further research – into fonts for example, etc.






Editing

This comment perhaps balances out the marks across the group. Teachers should look out for such comments when marking and include references in the Individual Candidate Record Form (ICRF).

Julia and I decided it was best for us to use her Mac Book for editing since she was most familiar with iMovie.  Julia did most of the editing at home.

Besides a few problems with the computer itself editing went really well.  Due too Julia’s MacBook being older, it would not let us open iMovie.  Along with a few other problems, Julia took her computer to Apple to be fixed.  She ended up getting a new computer that work perfectly.  Editing went smoothly after this.  We followed our storyboard almost completely and added sound very well.

This comment evidences why the production has weak credits and title. As the brief specifically requests that credits and title are present, candidates should carry out significant research into the codes and conventions associated with these.


For the opening credits we used a simple font like we planned.  We added a few names to the opening credits so that it wasn’t just Julia’s and I’s name.  This makes it seem more like a real movie opening.

Overall, I think our rough draft came out very good.  We will not need to make any major changes to it for the final draft.


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