Monday 5 January 2009

Evaluation starting

We started evaluation work as soon as we had finished the main coursework piece.
We wrote the script and had it checked and made it better a few times before we decided to go ahead with the piece. Our initial place of filming was in the original building of the school, in a language room. We found that this was not very good as there was much background noise and voices echoed.
This disrupted our time left to capture footage and sound. We decided to start putting images and sounds onto our premiere file timeline where we thought things would sit on the script.
Eventually we used a small room that was practically silent. This worked wonders for our sound, so we decided to do the voiceover there and then. Our technician suggested putting the camera in a hat so that the microphone didnt pick up all round sound, this made it sound like speaking directly into a vocal microphone. Somehow though, it made my voice sound odd. I'm part Scottish (distantly) so haven't really got a southern accent but it is still very much english, however my voice didnt sound scottish it actually sounded like Cornwall in Scott's opinion. We carried on in this light, knowing that it might sound odd but in the end it seemed to be success.
We didnt have as much footage as we needed to cover our timeline, so we used shots that we didnt include in final pieces and repeated some scenes, leaning on different parts of it each time.
Eventually we covered our whole timeline and seemed to have covered all neccasery areas, as jumbled up and non flowing as it may be.

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