Nikita And Kelly's First Video - 'Snatched'

Myself and Kelly were given a task as well as the rest of our Media class to conduct a video that was of two people meeting on a bench. Immediately myself and Kelly were excited to be able to film and conduct our very first video. We both knew there were certain steps in doing so which we were delighted to go forth and complete. Firstly was the making of the storyboard as we did not have any speech in this video. The storyboard consisted of 8 shots and were drawn onto a whiteboard which we referred to during filming. Each shot was drawn out and each angle was written so the person filming knew what to do. 

Also although we thought that filming our first video would be exciting and easy there were minor setbacks during filming such as the area in which we were filming our video. The quad is where we filmed our video and the place in which we chose was thought through because I did fall over when filming, which was a health and safety hazard and will enable me and Kelly to be aware of this in further filming. Regardless of me falling over I did continue on filming Kelly walk down the stairs. During the video you can hear footsteps which we kept in the video to add effect to the story-line. Unfortunately I was not present when Kelly edited the Video in the programme Final Cut. However I did take into account on what Kelly did to the video in Final Cut the following lesson. 

With the help of our teacher filming us for some of the video we came across a mistake when watching back. This mistake was that during one shot there is a noticeable jump to the next shot which looks irregular. In order to correct this we added a transition to this although it did not look perfect it did correct it slightly. Adding in credits and text was also shown to us both and being able to delete different shots. Also how to import music files and render them in order to add them into the video is what I learnt from Kelly in the next lesson. 

Our video - 'Snatched'.

For improvements for further filming I will take into account the way in which I film, such as using a Tripod to film to avoid bad quality filming. Also taking into account the surroundings to avoid any injuries or by passers. Lastly timing did come of an issue because we both had to re-take shots which became very time consuming and affected our progress whilst filming. However I feel this was a very enjoyable task and process and look forward to conducting more videos and learning new effective filming techniques - also being able to work on my improvements when filming next time.