Filming schedule

This is my filming schedule for the compenent one .  

Scene	Date/Time	Location	People	Props	Equiptment	Other
1	Monday 20/1/2025	greg's office	maha kenzo gusde candra and actors for guards	Dress Bike Weapons (knife bat etc) Fake id card and outfits (all Black	Drone camera mics boom arm

Classwork: editing practice

 This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but I worked with Maha to edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post. 

Why is continuity editing important?

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.

Different types of continuity edit 

• Straight cut (cut)

• Eyeline match 

• Shot /reverse shot

• Cutaway / Insert 

*Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic. 

https://youtu.be/dZ2IH8KjRjE?feature=shared

My editing process

First we looked over the clips that our teacher had recorded for us then we decided the order of clips from when the actor was leaving the seat to leaving the room then uploading set clips to Cap Cut. We decided to use Cap Cut as it is free easy to use and has a bunch of templates for effects and transitions which really helped fulfil our creative visions. 

For the first edit we decided to use simplier cuts without any effects we used this as a rough guideline or a plan of how we are going to sync up orientate and time the cuts.

For our next edit we started to play around and experiment with diffrent effects with digital zooms and camera movements and trasitions.

Refection:

This helped me get a better understanding of video editing as I have rarely done it in the past. Overall it was a fun process and brought back memories of when I was a kid and we used to splice together random videos. I think this will help us be able to better edit our videos. As for challenges it was probably the connection as more than 20 people were all simultaniously downloading clips from a google drive which was stressful on the bandwidth. I think next time I wanna try using diffrent softwares and experimeting more adn hopefully create an apealing but unique style.

Scene recreation

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. we did this as a group

Lesson Description: My teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre. Our chosen task was to recreate this scene from John Wick where he and the film's main antagonist conversed with each other engaging in a deal. 

Original scene:

Story board:

Recreated Scene:

Problems, How to solve them and What to do next time:

1) We do not have the proper camera equipment, so sometimes the camera movements are a bit unstable, making it look unprofessional. We could not solve this problem besides the least we could do was to get someone from our group to have stable hands when holding the camera. Next time we would be required to buy new equipment that would stabilize the camera when moving to create a better quality film for the audience and avoid shaking the camera.

2) The backlight when we were filming ruins the recreated scene as the original scene was in a dark gloomy weather. There was nothing we could do as we could not control the weather and we did not have enough time to find a new place to film. Next time we would need to take our time to decide which location would be suitable for the environment to match with the original film. Though the silhouetting of actors did make them seam a bit more menacing and mysterious

3) There were background noises from the area where we filmed which caused a disturbance in the audio every time the character was speaking even though we had a phone microphone near the voice of our actor. We solved this problem by muffling the audio from the video however this makes the character's voice low and unclear. Next time we would need to buy a proper microphone attached to our actors so their voices can be heard loud and clear. We also would need to clear out the area of our filming set to avoid unnecessary audio or disturbance from entering our film.

4) We had a problem with our cameraman due to his unprofessional conduct where he accidentally recorded the scenes in slow motion. Luckily we had a solution where the videos would be sped up to cover the mistake of our cameraman from the audience. However, this solution would not fully solve the problem as some of the scenes are still in slow motion to match the pace of the original audio. Next time we would probably have to switch our cameraman to someone else as this can prove to be a really dangerous conduct towards our final film.

REFLECTION:

Overall I found this task really amusing and fun as we recreated our favorite movies scenes without million dollar budgets but the tools and items around us. We constantly had to improvise props such as the cards out of paper and think on our feet. I think this also gives valuable experience on how to shoot our final video and acts as a nice warm up on the day to day of media studies.