Thursday, May 22, 2008

Our video footage

We were given 20 minutes to produce a short video clip about us. Therefore we needed to plan what we wanted to do before getting the equipment. The idea was to represent a typical day in our lives. This is idea was simple and easy for the viewer to understand. We decided to use 30 second clips of 6 different key ideas. Sleep, coffee, driving to college, lecture, student flat and exercise.

We used a storyboard to pre-visualize the video idea. The storyboard is a series of blank boxes where visual shot ideas can be drawn. Against each shot the equipment and location can be identified. Through using storyboards time 'on set' is not wasted. Ideally we would have thought about lighting, facial expressions, special effects and shot composition. The reality is that with 20 minutes to complete filming this is not really possible.

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