Connor Winfield TV production

The editing for this project was hard in some places, due to me trying some new editing techniques, such as colour correcting my shots. I have not done much colour correcting on my previous projects, so it was difficult at first, as I was learning as I went along. Some shots were more difficult to colour correct than others, due to the shots being one after another, but were shot at different times of the day, so the light levels were different. This made colour correcting difficult as it was much harder to have the colours match between shots.  Another problem during the edit was the audio. There are some clips that have people talking in the background, which is very annoying. It was quite difficult to remove the sound, while still keeping the natural background noise. If I was to do this project again, i would buy better headphones so that I can hear the audio better, and hopefully improve my editing There were several things that went well during my edit as well. I was able to

There were a few things that went wrong with the shoot. One of the main things was that there were some shots that had to be changed due to the amount of light during the shoot. In some of the shots that I had on my shot list, the sun was either causing a lot of the frame to be lost due to contrast, or was causing a shadow of me on the camera, which was not wanted. Due to this, I had to change some of my shots, but I think I made improvements to the shots needed. The biggest change to the shots that I wanted was filming a sunrise. I wanted to film the sunrise from the top of a church tower, as I felt like the view of the town in the twilight would be a good contrast for the line “I am the sunlight on ripened grain” Because of this change, I managed to contact a friend who does a lot of drone filming, and he let me use some footage he had of a sunrise. Another thing that could have been improved was the audio. During editing, some of the shots have people in the ba

When the day of shoot came around, I had a shot list made to help me keep on track with all the shots that I needed to cover, and Alan, one of my actors, just down the road at my nan’s house, ready to come to the graveyard at a moment’s notice. I was expecting the shoot to last 2 hours, and I finished just under that, which was good, as I needed to keep to a schedule as I was filming between 14:00 and 16:00, so the sun was getting very low between those times, which would have made filming very difficult. Despite this however, I was able to work with the decreasing light, and even incorporate it into some shots.  Before the shoot, I made the decision to have the whole film shot using a handheld camera instead of a tripod, as I wanted the uneasiness of the shots to try and evoke emotions in the audience. I did bring a tripod with me, as I was going to shoot the GVs as a Steadicam, but I decided against this idea as I felt that having this constant changing of shots would not look g

On the day before shooting, my friend who was going to be one of my actors had to drop out of the shoot, so I had to find a replacement. I asked a few more friends, but they were all busy, and couldn't change their schedules due to it being such short notice. I therefore had to ask a few people on the same course as me. This was not what I wanted to do, as I wanted to try and have people off the course in order to experience having to direct people that I did not know. Eventually, my friend George agreed that he would help me with my project.

When handing my risk assessments, I was told that I would not be able to carry out my idea to film a sunrise from the top of Milton Church tower, due to the possible dangers that could occur, even with safety precautions being in place. Because of this, I have had to go to my back up plan, which is to contact an old friend from primary school, as I have often seen him post drone films on his facebook, so I have asked him if he either already has some footage of a sunrise over the town, or would be able to film a sunrise for me. I messaged him earlier today, but have not heard back from him yet. Just in case I am not able to obtain footage from my friend, I have another back up plan, which is to film a sunrise from the green opposite my house, as I'll hopefully be able to get a shot of the sun rising up over the line of houses. It may not have the same desired effect as a sunrise from the top of the church tower, but it should still be able to create feeling in the audience

I only need two locations and two actors for my shoot. My first location is going to be the war memorial at Milton Regis Holy Trinity Church in Sittingbourne. I chose to use this location because I felt that this location would fit the poem quite well, as the sonnet that I have chosen is about a person talking from beyond the dead to the people mourning them. I felt like this would also be a good location because some of the lines in the poem link very well to the casualties of war, such as the line "I am a thousand winds that blow", which could be a parallel to all the people who lost their lives in the war. My second location is at the same church, but it is on top of the tower. I want to use this to film a sunrise, and i thought that it would look good to have the sunrise lighting up the town underneath. I want to use this to accompany the line "I am the sunlight on ripened grain", as I feel like there would be powerful imagery there. I managed to get access to

We were tasked to create a montage using some stock footage, as this would be good practice for if we wanted to include some montage in our final films. We had a lecture about the different types of montage, and the different effects that they create in the audience, most of the time without words. An example of this is what Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov did. He had a shot of a man's face, and then changed the shots that followed it. This caused the audience to put different meanings to the man's face, despite the shots of his face being the same one used in all three films. This is called the Kuleshov effect, and is a very effective form of montage.

In order to make filming easier, I made a shot list outlining what needs to happen, and the shots that I want to have in my final piece. Filming Person walking up to the grave/ memorial, then stopping a bit in front of it. Shot reverse shot between the person and the grave/ memorial Close up of lower face (chin), with a tear trickling down face Tear drop falling on floor Wide shot of person and grave, each at opposite ends of the screen Shot of the trees blowing Shot of the bushes blowing Shot of leaves on ground blowing (above three shots have whispers heard over them. Maybe have person in some of the shots) Shot of person still at grave/ memorial, takes step(s) closer. Shot of frost on grass - Possibly have person walking along on frost Shot of dawn breaking – possibly from top of church tower? Time lapse of stars Shot of birds in flight Person takes final steps closer to grave/ memorial and reaches out for it, but