Tutorial Four and Five: Video Production Sessions 6th March and 8th May 2009

Tutorial Four and Five: Video Production Sessions
YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share video clips, and view them in the MPEG-4 format. (Retrieved 25th May 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) This allows people to upload videos to share with others.

During class time we were required in groups to make a short film about “overcoming adversity or a problem. We decided to film the runaway. This film was about me going to pay for some food and when i went to pay with cash the note blew away in the wind. To overcome the problem i chased the note till i caught it.

STORYBOARDING:
A storyboard is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents.
A storyboard helps you:

Define the parameters of a story within available resources and time
Organize and focus a story
Figure out what medium to use for each part of the story
(Retrieved 27th May 2009 from http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/starttofinish/storyboarding/)

We were given a storyboard to use to help aid our planning and implementation. This was useful as we could write and draw what we planned to do. Therefore we had to think about how it would work and what was needed in order for this to work. It saved a lot of time as we knew exactly what we were going to do and what was needed. However we didn’t really stick to our story board plan and tended to make it up on the spot as we had new and better ideas. The story board was good as a beginning to start thinking about the process and story line.

SCRIPTING:

A script is used to express the thoughts and ideas of the author to the audience. The script should be the basis for everything that is both heard and seen on screen. A good script should include the following:
moods and expressions
facial expressions
vocal expressions - words
movement
interaction with other characters
special effects
Our group mainly used a script for movement and words spoken. This was useful as it gave us a basis to work from. Our script helped to give us direction and ideas.