​Blog 8

For our group, the task of going from production to recording and editing ourselves was an unprecedented challenge. We also learned a lot of tricks from it. The first thing I learned was how to communicate with the team members and distribute everyone's work together. Making advance choices and preparations is also an important part. From the beginning our story changed many times due to circumstances and techniques. The most important thing is to learn useful film knowledge with everyone. In the process of making storyboards, I learned how to draw the ideal look of each shot.

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We use many kinds of equipment. When we shoot with the camera, in addition to the handhold, we also use the tripod to stabilize the camera, which will make the picture more stable and clear. In some shots that require a specific light. We will use lighting to make the picture achieve the effect we need, which will also create a different atmosphere.

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We learned a lot about technical skills in the process of recording, and through practice, I learned to express the emotions of characters through lighting. It is also important to use different angles and movements in different shots. What impresses me most is when the main character recalls what happened with his dad before, we put one of the lights on the left side of the main character and the other right above it. There is an obvious contact from the camera.

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Through the combining of the shot and video together to creat a film clip, in this area, i learned how to use a new editing app which can help me to do those process. Meanwhile, from the very clear narrative action, it imply many impressions oof the character also promote the development of the plot. To helps audiences understand the clip and match the background sound.

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There was a very significant difficult before which is the place where we should go and the time management of our group, we had ask serval place to take film as some special shot that we need to do, there are two place that we give up. To solve this problem, we change some of the shot and change to another way to present the shot. The other difficult was the time management in our group, every people had different things on weekend even after school. Finally we started to rearrange our time in a group and having more communication with each teammates.

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To sum up, we still have some narrative that need main character to add, also the editing need to be more appropriate.