Practice task

During this term I had the opportunity to practice filming and remember some editing techniques. As we are studying media studies, our teacher told us to film a promotional video of our school. As normal, we started doing some research. We went to youtube and spent some lessons watching promotional videos of existing school. We thought it was going to be really easy, just take some shots of children and staff and that's all. But to be honest, the videos that we saw when we were researching were so professional, so we also wanted to do a great job. It took us five days to film everything. It wasn't an easy task because we had to speak to teachers, to students and also to the headteacher as we also wanted him to appear in our video. After filming everything we started editing with a software called Pinnacle Studio, it is the one that we are going to use for our film trailer. We used some editing techniques that we learnt last year in our AS course and we are really proud of our result. Here is the final production. Hope you enjoy! :) :) :)

Characters

I have really enjoyed preparing this popplet diagram. Here you can see what is the role of each of the member of the group and what they do. 

Some days after creating this popplet I re-edit this post due to some changes. First, we decided that I was going to be also in charge of editing our trailer due to all the effort that I put on my research on the internet about good editing programs. Also we realize that we needed to add two new characters.

The boy is one of the protagonist of the movie and the women is will be the psychologist.

Location

My group and I have decided to film our trailer in El puerto de santa Maria principally because most of us live there so it is more confortable and easy to record near our houses.

We know this place almost since we were little so we don't have too much problem with the scenarios or with how to get to all the different places. Another reason of why we choose this location is because we did not have a very good experience from last year because we went to record somewhere 1 hour away from our houses so we didn't have enough time but also it is a solitary place with a very small range of habitants in winter and this was a problem in case we need an extra or we consider a new idea and we need more characters. Well this is a problem that this year we hope that we are not going to faced because we have chosen a place where we know a lot of people rather than a place where you cant even see someone in the street.

So definitively El puerto de santa Maria is a really good place to film and very confortable.

Props and costumes

We have created a brief powerpoint in which it appear the majority of the props that it can be found in our trailer.
Some of them obviously are more important than others and each of them have a symbolism.
After recording our trailer we thought about creating a new post in which we put the props that we have used, those that we have not and those that you can see more.

Shooting equipments

Well..today me and my team have been working on the possible equipment that we are going to use for filming our movie. The school will provide as with the camera and the tripod. We are thinking this year of including also an ambient sound microphone in order to have a better sound quality. Last year we also used our mobile phone to record some scenes. So it would be a good idea to include it in our film equipment. You will find all this information fully detailed in my prezi presentation.