Sunday, 16 May 2010

Green Allience

For work experience during the course I shot a small five minute film with the Green Alliance on the effects on climate change. Hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald and directed by Phoebe Fraser, My role on the project was Camera Assistant. I helped set up shots with the head Camera Man Nick Martin and also lit many of the scenes.

In doing this short film I travelled around London and the south of England, most noticeably in the House's of Parliament. This experience was a massive experience for me and gave me vital skills needed to bring to Planning and Making a Film. The best example of this would be in Lighting. From the supervision of Nick he taught me how to light a set and what different gels do to the scene. This is relevant to 'The Interview' as all of the Green Alliance film was interview based so the lighting techniques taught to me were poignant to this assignment.
To view the short film click the link below and see what we got up too.
http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/grea1.aspx?id=4754

Editing

Over the Easter holiday myself and Myles set about doing a rough cut edit for 'The Interview'. The editing software used to edit was Final Cut Pro. As I have never used this software before I was simply another pair of eyes and opinions. Nevertheless it was a good learning curve for me as I learnt some of the real basics to using Final Cut.