Props

for Mise en Scene to stay the same we've kept several things the same:
Actors
Locations
Prop
Costumes

speicifc's we used are:
Tom (actor)
Robot (prop)
Bag (prop)
Car (prop)

as we do most of our filming in school time, these things are easy to kep the same. we are all responsible for bringing in certain things. I'm responsible for wearing the same clothes for filming and bringing in the robot prop. George is responsible for bringing in the bag prop. Matt is responsible for ensuring we have a camera to film with.

Filming Problems

Filming Log

During the last couple of weeks my group has begun filming and editing our project. A problem we had was when we came to editing we could see the robot moving and it showed how the robot was moving. The problem was because the cameras are low budget they didn't give a wide enough view of the shot. This led to several re-films. Also, we decided that to make it clearer to the audience, before we go to a first person view of the robot, we would cut to a close up of the robot's face first, this would make it clearer for the audience and connect more with the robot. we still for one scene re-film with the close up's.
In editing, In one particular shot we found it difficult to put a blur on one shot going into another, it as now been resolved but it took a great amount of time sorting the problem out.

Storyboard 2

http://a2mediamattberry.blogspot.com/2009/12/story-board-scene-2.html
This is the link for our group's second load of storyboard's.

StoryBoard

http://a2mediamattberry.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html
This is the link for our group's first set of storyboards.

Filming

Our group has begun to film our short film "Curiosity". We have already found a few problems that we need to resolve. we need to redo the shots with the robot moving because the robot doesn't move correctly and we need to hide how the robot is moving because the angle of the shot gives it away. Also a shot where we had a sign in the background which we feel would divert the audiences attention to what is going on in the scene. Another shot because we forgot to move the tripod out of the shot. we've done several point of view shots to give the image your seeing from the robot eyes. With these problems in mind we checked in more detail at mise en scene, shot angles for the second scene. Our group made sure this time that when the robot moves you cant see how he is moving in the shot. Checked that no equipment was left or there was anything that would detract away from the scene.

Practice Shoot

Our group did a practice run of our short film. This was done to see how shots would look and find locations that could be used in the final piece. Several locations were used to and a variety of shots, particularly panning and mid-shots.

What was learned was that for some shots we would have to consider using point of view shots to keep the scene flowing. Include the character's view of what they are seeing and feel more involved with the character.