Moving Image

I have never really liked the moving image projects to be honest. I am not a fan of filming but I have always tried to do my best and get involved. Our group was given the "Shift", which is a script about a man who steals government secrets and then becomes a target for the government. We had to change a part of the script and add our own scene in. As a group we thought about what we wanted to film to be about and decided it was to be a mystery what was going on until the end. So we had the man go through the different scenes slowly revealing little details. After we had been given our different roles, I ended up with sound and assistant lighting. I liked these positions as it meant I was involved but it let the other people in the group who were still interested in moving image take the more important roles. We started filming with the scene in the office. It was the most difficult to film as its quite long and we struggled with props and the fact that it was supposed to be night but we were filming during the day. I think the scene turned out ok and it is one of the main scenes in the film. We then filmed all the other scenes in an afternoon and late evening, it was quite an easy shoot and we had all shots completed. I think that Caleb did an especially good job at organising it all and creating his vision. We then had to edit the film, which is where we came up against some problems. Some of the scenes had crackling in them, you could see a foot of one of us in our main office scene and the total running time for all our scenes was about 6 mins. We managed to fix the disturbance and just about managed to cut down the scenes to just over three minutes. We also added some suspenseful sounds to add to the feel of the film. Overall I feel the film turned out really well and I think we are all happy with the outcome.