The Meeting

Here is my one shot film entitled 'The Meeting'

Changing Colours - Photoshop

My selected image to manipulate is one of my friends from back home.



I then used photoshop to change the colour of his guitar.



This is done in many different ways, the easiest has been introduced to CS3. There is a colour replacement tool within CS3 that takes all the ballache out of layering up colours and carefully cutting (or rendering) parts of the image. All that happens now is you choose your colour, click on the part of the image you want to change and the tool automatically changes it for you.

I decided to change the guitar colour as green and pink are two colours that complement each other, rather than blue and pink.

One shot film - Prep and Shoot

As a group we decided on intrepreting the title of 'The Meeting' as the awquardness of meeting new people.

The shoot will be silent so that music can be overlayed, which also gives members of the group chance to write in 'thoughts' of the characters within the film. These thoughts will hopefully show how people will try avoiding making the first move when meeting new people.

I created the following image as a plan to shooting the film.



The camera (inspired by that 70's show) will be panning to each character sat round the table. It will stop on each character for about 5 seconds so it would be possible to add the thoughts in through the edit, plus body language of each will be portrayed properly.



After we completed the shoot I realised how interesting this idea could exactly be. Each person within the film acted differently, some alot more than the others. This is perfect as each group member will interpret the body language differently, meaning there is a possibility of 6 totally different films coming out of one shoot.

After studying the footage, i began to draw up characterisics and personalities for each character, making it far easier to add thoughts into the film. Below is a sort of outline of what i came up with. I must stress that these outlines are based on the film and not what i actually think of my group members!

Imogen - Flirtious, bitchy, IT girl
Grace - Lazy, unenthuseasic (however you spell it)
Dan - Hungover!
Will - Stereotype boy (makes excuses to why the situation isnt his fault???)

The final edit of the film be up as soon as i get enough time to let youtube upload it (my pix project took 4 hours! these film is about 2-3 times longer!!!!!).

The rule of thirds

The rule of thirds is a commonly known rule relating to camera position within photography and film. As you can see from the example above, this rule uses two horizontal lines and two vertical lines to split the image into thirds. This gives a basic outline of where the focal points and horizon lines should fall.
It is my understanding that a interesting focal point will fall into one of these thirds directly, with the main components of this point falling to the left or right vertical third. The horizon line should then be shown on either the top or bottom (horizontal) third.

I took a photograph (of the one and only Luke Burton) to try and describe this rule.



The focal point (Lukes face/eyes) fit within the top right third, and the horizon fits on the bottom horizontal third.