Construction 9: My technical learning curve (Production and Post production)

My Personal Contribution:

The whole group played a part in all aspects of the processes (filming&editing) of creating the opening sequence 

• In Production I was mainly in charge of organising shoot logistics (getting equipment release forms signed, shoot schedules signed on behalf of the group so we could take kit out of the school, updating the shoot board dependent on changes made from the shoot before, relaying information to actors regarding shoots and sometimes transporting kit)
• In Post-Production we all sat together to select the best clips we wanted to use and all did our bits in putting those clips together but from then on since we all knew what each other wanted we were able to divide up the jobs. I was mainly in charge of sound and titles.  

What did I learn?

In Production

• How to manage people
• Setting up a dolly
• Setting up lights
• Overestimate time needed for shoots instead of underestimate because shoots actually take a really long time
• How to manage with lighting issues
• How to contra zoom (although we never used it in the end, it was an idea for one of our school long shots, the tutorial we used as inspiration is found on the side)

Me setting up the tripod

In Post-Production

• Split screen technique
• Creating key frames
• Grading
• Constructing Titles
• How to record a voice over

My strengths:

• Organisation and Planning
• Using a camera/microphone
• Setting up a dolly/tripod/camera
• Constructing titles either on Adobe Premier or Typewriter



Me setting up the camera

• Acting

My weaknesses:

These are all things I also need to improve on...

• Grading
• Visual effects (manipulating a clip)
• Setting up lights (mainly because we didn't use lights during any of our shoot apart from the test shoot because we realised we didn't need them)