reflections film - making of

Pre production

In the pre production process once we had finalised our idea, leanna/hannah/amy created the story boards and scripts ( interviewing there friends on what they remembered about the video )  for the parts they would be directing.  I organised all the paper work and other preparations, they main part to this was the prop list and shooting schedule.

As the 3 videos are so similar, continuity could easily go astray so making sure the same props and changes were kept in each video was important ( eg if leanna use brown cake mix she didnt then pick up amys pink cake mix in the next shot  )

The shot list was also important as we needed to film all the raw cake mix shot before placing them in the oven,  and then shot it  film by film ( eg  filmed all of amys, then all of hannahs ) as too make sure the ingredients didnt spoil under the lighting making it look bad.

Filming -

when filming we had an isssue that the kitchen needed a middle work surface but the location only had counters on the outside meaning we had to make a table into the kitchen, this took up most of the space meaning there was limited movement and no more than the necessary amount of people could be in the room.

leanna, hannah and amy each directed there shot and i was ad and continuity, it was pretty simple to film as we were copying shots from the original video so we knew exactly what needed to be scene

Editing

when editing i edited the videos to the timing of the original video, amy composed them all into the correct order and layout, hannah recored the sound and leanna did the colour correcting.

when editing the video as we were basing it off of peoples memories, they didnt remeber some of the shot eg close ups of her cooking

i orginally made the shots before and after the missing ones longer  how ever this went out of time with the orginal video so ended up looking all clutted and messy when all 4 played at the same time.

see rough cut - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eP1FXlULU4


to over come this we edited the original video to look all hazy as if it was a really vague memory and cut that into the footage we filmed so we could keep the timings correct with out having blank bits.

we also decided only to play 2 videos at a time rather than 4 so people wasnt bombarded with information.

see final - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G22l8MlygqU