week 6, Sunday

This day we went out again shooting some scenes of the house, now including shots of bycicle. We took it that morning from Natela's place to mine. Then we started action shooting. Like for example, the way the boy jumps off the balcony and lands on the grass, grabs the bike and rides away.

And we had fun and trouble in one face, when during a shot of the boy making graffiti on a wall, 2 policemen came to us... Hmm... we were surprised and embaraced... we didn't know what to do. We tried to explain that we didn't do anything wrong, but they hardly could understand us, 'cuz they didn't speak English.

Then they asked to wait a lil bit, they called someone. After a while 3 more policemen drove to our place, by the way, it was near a tram stop just one stop before Budagyongye center. There is a long wall with lots of graffiti on it, so we decided to use it, 'cuz it seemed quite bright there.
And so 3 policemen came to us , started asking different questions, like what are our names, ages, where we study and so on. They made some notes, and called someone else.
Hm, we waited for another half an hour in darkness and cold. (Oksana, Kubat - my bro, and me with all the props: bike, bags and sprays)

And here come another 3 people. Again talking to us, asking questions and making notes. They called someone else... We thought it would never end... But finally they said Good bye to us, and let us stay there, but just not use spray any more. Otherwise we'd be arrested. o_O

And so this is it. We spend some more time shooting over there, then we moved to another place, shot some more. And came went home. Laughing all the way back. )))

week 6

Now we actually started shooting our 4 minutes long film.
First, I prepared everything I needed for it. Like I made a list of what i wanted to shoot that day, took a tripod and a camera, and went out to the street. It was a sunny day, and time was around 4 or 5 pm. It was lil bit cold outside, and i was wearing not a very warm sweater, so finally i got cold. During 3 hours i was able to shoot all the scenes about my house, which is part of the film, of course; some shots and night and some extra shots, which were not in the script.
While it was getting darker, I was changing sets in the camera, changing brigtness and contrast staff, so it doesn't look that dark outside.
I had fun shooting the street in front of my house, couse its shape is quite interesting. I changed the position many times, always trying something new, something better. I played with cars and people in the frame as well, like a person coming into the frame and another one from the other side, they great each other and then drive away in different directions. that looks cool, even though i didn't plan that. :)
And what i found interesting to shoot were jets, i guess, with bright strips behind. They looked really impressive, i tried to capture all of them (there were around 5 or 6 of them) from different positions. It was not included in the storyboard, but it looks so nice that i think we will include it instead of 2-3 cutaways. ))

week 5

This week first we watched a small part of a film, and discussed it well. We were clapping and counting the shots, so it's easier to understand how it differs depending on what is being shot. We all noticed that the longest shot can last even 30 seconds, and the shortest one just 1 sec. and it's all differs; for example, in action movie the shots don't last long, and the angles are always changing. That all plays roll in making the audience feel the speed and extreme.

Also we discussed again some problems that may occure, such as audio issues, for instance. The teacher gave us some advice about that. Well, in my opinion it's cool that we study that stuff, that's very important, but i think we repeat this topic every class, instead of studying something else.

The last 2 hours we spent discussing our projects. The Power Point slides helped us understand in which way we should present our storyboard, what should be included to the work. Now i know that location, time and even costumes and make-up, all matters if that's important in the shot. All the props also should be on the list.

I don't know what sound effect we are going to use with Oksana, but that's cool that we can add some music to our films. ;)

4th week

This week was interesting as well. We 'made friends' with the Nero Smart Start software. We learnt how to edit our movies, how to crop and add music.

And we had fun doing an outside shooting for half an hour with Oksana. That was a great shiny day, so we didn't have any difficulties with that. The subjects of our shooting project were two little underground balconies. And what we did, we shot 4 people climbing up from them by particular order. one by one. that looks funny. Then we came back into classroom, and made editing. So we had fun.

3d week

This week class was mostly about pre-production. We learned about scripts, treatments and storyboards, and main differences between them. That was quite useful. 'Cuz i've heard this words before, and we studied them last year, but i didn't know how to differenciate them.

Then we enriched our stock of vocabulary. I think that's really great that we do learn them, it is helpful even for people who is not going to be a professional director. That's just good to know and use in e.d. life. :)

And the last thing we did , was starting our first storyboard. We had time to discuss our project with the teacher. And now it's much clearer for me and Oksana what to do, and in which order.