Fredrik-Larsson
July 20th, 2005, 02:18 AM
Now that the challenge is finished I am ready to tell all secrets of "The Secret of Ale Stones". This is my second movie I ever complete. It was shot with a friends Canon XL-2. I did everything alone. That ment trying to focus a point where I will stand and talk. I am proud to complete my 2nd movie. That's an achievement in itself. I am definately going to make more movies. I learned a lot from this challenge and here are some key points:
- Rehearse what you are going to say so you know it by heart.
- Do proper research first.
- Scout the locations before shooting.
- Think about the sun/light
- Make sure you've got control over where the wind is blowing so you don't get strong windsounds.
- Make a script with edit info and all angles/shots
- Dubbing takes time and you need to see the mouth of the one you are dubbing
- Have plenty of batteries and tapes.
- Movies are more fun to watch when stuff in the movie move.
I recorded the raw movie data in about 1½ before sunset. Now I wish I had spent another day up there to get more shots. Every sound in the movie is added in post production. The wind blew quite heavily up there. In the beginning my dubbing is a bit off the mouth movements. The bull in the closing shots was real weird. He did a lot of scratching and screaming with the stones. It was kind of bizarre and I lost a bit focus of it e g laughing hystarically. At the end I was taking some pictures of the stones and he was inside the ring. He started staring at me and the camera and he looked quite pissed. When he started walking towards me and the camera I figured that it was time to go home. Luckily I got some real nice shots in the end and I wish that I had the complete jump of the bull.
Well, that's all I can come to think of now. I hope you'll get me some good/bad comments. I must say that this has been great fun and from all of the other films I have learned so much stuff. I will probably do challenge #3 as well...
- Rehearse what you are going to say so you know it by heart.
- Do proper research first.
- Scout the locations before shooting.
- Think about the sun/light
- Make sure you've got control over where the wind is blowing so you don't get strong windsounds.
- Make a script with edit info and all angles/shots
- Dubbing takes time and you need to see the mouth of the one you are dubbing
- Have plenty of batteries and tapes.
- Movies are more fun to watch when stuff in the movie move.
I recorded the raw movie data in about 1½ before sunset. Now I wish I had spent another day up there to get more shots. Every sound in the movie is added in post production. The wind blew quite heavily up there. In the beginning my dubbing is a bit off the mouth movements. The bull in the closing shots was real weird. He did a lot of scratching and screaming with the stones. It was kind of bizarre and I lost a bit focus of it e g laughing hystarically. At the end I was taking some pictures of the stones and he was inside the ring. He started staring at me and the camera and he looked quite pissed. When he started walking towards me and the camera I figured that it was time to go home. Luckily I got some real nice shots in the end and I wish that I had the complete jump of the bull.
Well, that's all I can come to think of now. I hope you'll get me some good/bad comments. I must say that this has been great fun and from all of the other films I have learned so much stuff. I will probably do challenge #3 as well...