1. Filming Today!
Get your crew and equipment together, prepare your actors, and head out to your shoot! Be sure to leave five minutes at the end of the block to offload footage and check over your equipment.
Get your crew and equipment together, prepare your actors, and head out to your shoot! Be sure to leave five minutes at the end of the block to offload footage and check over your equipment.
Students should not be editing overdue projects. Groups should be preparing their storyboards, shot lists, acquiring props, scouting locations, and directing their actors. If you need, you can practice working with the equipment if you need time to review. Notify Mr. Gilbar as soon as you are ready. The first four groups to finish will shoot tomorrow, while the last four groups will shoot on Friday.
Here is a great article on important shots. Don’t feel like reading? Here’s a video version!
On Thursday and Friday, we will be doing our first narrative film shoot! The “Shoot the Shots” exercise is out of twenty marks. It will be a short, wordless narrative requiring 1-2 actors. Like all of our projects, please make sure to include your production logo at the beginning and a brief rolling credits at the end.
We will start planning this project tomorrow, but you should start thinking of ideas today!
Spend the remainder of the class working on editing your “Light and Sound” exercise. You will need to manually sync your audio that was captured on the Zoom recorder and titling the shots with the shot type/lighting technique and sound capture method. If you finish early, you can use the remaining studio time to work on the “Viewpoint” project.
You’ll have all day today to get four lighting scenarios (of your choosing) and four sound setups that you didn’t capture yesterday. Use whatever sound equipment your group didn’t get a chance to play with yesterday. Finish early? Work on your spy talk or viewpoint project!
We will create the project together then I’ll give some tips for quick assembly. Please make sure to use Digital SLR > 1080p> DSLR 1080p30 when creating your project.
Lights, camera, action! We are going to play with the cameras, lights, and sound equipment to do a series of four screen tests. You’ll get together in groups of three to shoot the “Lighting and Sound” exercise. Please ensure that at least two of your group members were present during yesterday’s demonstration. You’ll have all day today and tomorrow to get four lighting scenarios (of your choosing) and four sound setups. Make sure to come back to the room twenty minutes early to go over the process for importing your audio and video and returning your film equipment.
Each clip should:
Pick four of the following seven lighting scenarios that you want to replicate, trying to attempt at least one “medium” and one “hard” difficulty shot:
For each of your shots, you should use a different sound recording method. You should use each of the following on one of your shots:
When you are done, you should each edit the footage together, equalize the audio, and create a single video file and submit it through Teams. Be sure to include your production logo at the beginning!
Equipment Check:
Production Check (Not Applicable Today):
Shooting Check:
Return Check:
In the last ten minutes, we will quickly look at the process for importing audio and video onto you computer.
Open the port on the right side of the camera and press in on the SD card and it will pop out. There is a reader built into the back of the Mac computers on the bottom-right side. Insert the card and a disk will pop up on your desktop. Go to DCIM > 100CANON and copy all of the contents to your OneDrive folder, then share it afterwards with your groupmates. Once you’ve checked that you have a working copy of the footage, it is important to wipe the card clear so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands!
Do not open the port on the right side of the device. Retrieve a USB cable from the bottom of the sound cabinet or from the front of the classroom and plug it in to the hat-shaped USB port on the left side of the device. Press in on the wheel on the top-left corner to indicate that you want to connect to the computer as a storage device. A disk called “H4N_SD” will pop up on your desktop. The audio that you just recorded should be in Stereo > FOLDER01 and copy all of the clips that your recorded (press spacebar to do a quick preview!) to your computer’s hard drive. After you and everyone in your group has obtained a copy of the audio, it is a good habit to wipe the card clear so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands! If you cannot find your footage in FOLDER01, it may have been placed in another folder instead and you might have to poke around to locate it.