Process Diary: No Talking

WEEK 5 OF GOA FILMMAKING:

This week I completed the third level of the camera skill tree, which was to create a film with movement in only one direction. Here's my movie:

Note: No changes this week because I've already spent so much time trying to fix the audio. 

This past week I actually learned a lot about framing and capturing the action in the shot. I'm not a very tall person and my two leading actors are almost a foot and over a foot taller than me, so I had trouble getting their heads in my shots. I was jumping between the different chairs and tables and moving furniture all around the classroom. In addition, unfortunately, people ended up coming into the room where we were filming and I had to figure out a way to keep them out of the camera, which was quite difficult considering it was a cramped classroom and all movement had to be left to right. 

Half way through filming my movie, tech guys came into the classroom and started messing around with the projector and SMART board. I got distracted trying to figure out how to keep them out of my shots, and I forgot where my main actor was supposed to be. When I looked over the footage, I realized that he abruptly jumped location between two shots. To fix this I shot another clip of him the next day; however, my friend who played the teacher was super busy so I just had her record her voice and send it to me. I spent over an hour trying to match up the volume and the background noise of the different audio files from what she sent me and the film I shot, but I just couldn't get it the way I wanted it to be. I was hoping I'd at least made it unnoticeable to my audience, but I learned from my critique that it still diverts the audience's attention from what's happening in the movie.  

This week my research consisted of three YouTube videos on camera movement:

	This first one talks about the basics of cinematography (rule of thirds, composition, etc.) and is a review of what we've talked about so far. I've included it because I think he explains the concepts very well, and in addition, he recreates scenes from famous movies and uses them as examples.
	This second one discusses the basics of camera movement, why it's important, and the different effects achieved by different movement. It's not one hundred percent relevant to my film this week since I was limited to left to right movement, but it's still interesting.
	This third one is actually about a study that analyzes the difference between left to right and right to left movement. It's relevant because I got to choose the direction of movement in my film. I like this one because it also uses footage from famous movies.
That's all for this week! -Emma