Filming Schedule

This post contains the filming schedule of our final film, we did this as a group:

Scene	Date/Time	Location	People	Props	Equiptment	Other
1	Monday 20/1/2025	greg's office	maha kenzo gusde candra and actors for guards	Dress Bike Weapons (knife bat etc) Fake id card and outfits (all Black	Drone camera mics boom arm

Classwork: Editing Practice

This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but me and my partner (Candra) edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post. 

Why is continuity editing important?

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.

Different types of continuity edit 

• Straight cut (cut)

• Eyeline match 

• Shot /reverse shot

• Cutaway / Insert 

*Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic. 

My editing process

Explain how you edited the clips together. Include screenshots of the editing software.  We used a lot of cuts

Here is my first attempt with some errors. Here is how I fixed the errors…

Here is my final scene. Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because…

Reflection: This helped us to decide who had the best editing skills in our group so they could edit our final film. The biggest challenge was that our editing software Canva has limited editing options so the result was not on the maximum performance. All we had was multiple cuts and no zoom or effects elements in our practice. Next time we would have to get real editing software such as Capcut. The reason we had to use Canva was because me and my partner had no editing software and it would take a long time to download Capcut (or any other editing software) within the classwork timeframe.

Shooting Practice: Action Scene Recreation

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. we did this as a group in school.

Lesson Description: My teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre. Our chosen task was to recreate this scene from John Wick where he and the film's main antagonist conversed with each other engaging in a deal. 


Storyboard:

Original Scene:

     

Our recreated scene:
                                                

Problems, How to solve them and What to do next time:

1) We do not have the proper camera equipment, so sometimes the camera movements are a bit unstable, making it look unprofessional. We could not solve this problem besides the least we could do was to get someone from our group to have stable hands when holding the camera. Next time we would be required to buy new equipment that would stabilize the camera when moving to create a better quality film for the audience and avoid shaking the camera.

2) The backlight when we were filming ruins the recreated scene as the original scene was in a dark gloomy weather. There was nothing we could do as we could not control the weather and we did not have enough time to find a new place to film. Next time we would need to take our time to decide which location would be suitable for the environment to match with the original film.

3) There were background noises from the area where we filmed which caused a disturbance in the audio every time the character was speaking even though we had a phone microphone near the voice of our actor. We solved this problem by muffling the audio from the video however this makes the character's voice low and unclear. Next time we would need to buy a proper microphone attached to our actors so their voices can be heard loud and clear. We also would need to clear out the area of our filming set to avoid unnecessary audio or disturbance from entering our film.

4) We had a problem with our cameraman due to his unprofessional conduct where he accidentally recorded the scenes in slow motion. Luckily we had a solution where the videos would be sped up to cover the mistake of our cameraman from the audience. However, this solution would not fully solve the problem as some of the scenes are still in slow motion to match the pace of the original audio. Next time we would have to switch our cameraman to someone else as this can prove to be a hazardous conduct towards our final film.


REFLECTION: 
I think overall this was a fun and effective task to do because it gave us an overall experience of how we would film our future final project. The fact that we had the lack of props and equipment when we filmed this makes this a pretty decent low-budget attempt that my group were proud of. I think if we were to do this again and had more time doing this, it would turn out to be a really good scene as I'm confident with this groupmate.