BYE BYE KITTY ANALYSIS HOMEWORK

This time we learnt from our previous mistakes and took it upon ourselves to make a storyboard prior to filming and it proved to be a great idea because the whole filming process ran a lot smoother and took a lot less time to film overall. This was our first time recording a conversation and it proved to be more challenging than we had first imagined, this was due to the amount of small technical things that would maintain the shot's continuity; i.e having one actor on the right hand side of each shot (not swapping around).

We started by filming the master shot (from a 90 degree angle of the two actors) and then continued by filming "over the shoulder shots" and experimented with a few close-up shots; purely to see the effect they would have; would they work? After we were content with our footage we went back to the classroom where we edited the shots together to produce our final outcome. However, we had a bit more fun in terms of editing this time as we "played- about" with different editing techniques and you can probably tell from the sped-up shot of James chasing Daniel (and vice versa).

We created two separate videos (both with the same content) except we added different non-diagetic sound to them both. We added parallel sound to our original video as the up-beat, funny, chasing music fitted well with our slightly comical scene. For the second version, we added an eerie  more sinister contrapuntal sound, this created the effect that the situation/ conversation was far more serious and stern than we had intended it o be; yet it was intriguing to see how something as simple as the sound could affect a video so much.

The quality of the footage was actually very high, we used the tripod to film every shot and so this gave room for no errors in terms of shaky hands etc. We decided to film every shots around 5 times, this was purely so that our final shot was as close to perfection as possible. We encountered a few technical mishaps such as zooming at the wrong time, speaking at the wrong time, saying the incorrect lines etc but this just added to the fun of making the video and i'm very pleased overall with the final outcome(s).

What went well?
we had fun
recorded each shot a multiple of times
extremely comfortable with the editing software and use of equipment in general

What went bad?
had to record an extra shot during editing time as we had a bright idea (the chasing scene at the end)