The Exchange Project

For the next project we had to film another sequence but this time we had to show that we had improved from the preliminary exercise, from the comments that were made from the preliminary exercise i was determined to get everything right this time.

This sequence was called the exchange sequence. In the exchange sequence character no.1 (Nicola Wright) had to exchange a confidential item for example, an envelope / suitcase / cassette / memory stick etc.. to character no.2 (Nick Rayner).

Our group contained of four people, myself, Nick, Nicola and Muhaimin, we all had to draw a storyboard of an idea that we had individually come up with. When we brought our ideas to the table it seemed we all had the same sort of idea, the start to nicola's was the best, the end of mine was the best. So we combined both of the ideas to create an even better idea and thats how we came about of what our sequence was going to be like.

Choosing a location was difficult, somewhere that was dark and "in the backstreet" style. We found somewhere right outside the front entrance of the college. Right next to the underground carpark where there was an arch with slight darkness for the scene and it seemed gloomy. this is where we started to shoot, i was oblivious to the fact there was a dark underground carpark right next to us at the time, so we started shooting outside the carpark. As we were deciding what to do first i looked around to see where to start and noticed through the grill that the carpark was dark, gloomy, it had dim lights and it seemed noisy. So i suggested it to the group whether we should shoot inside the carpark and they thought it was a brilliant idea, so thats where we shot our scene.

The shots were good, we had more angles unlike the prliminary exercise, we had long handles because i knew how much of a pain it is to not have handles, so handles was a neccessity. The framing was comfortable, i watched the rule of thirds and the 180* Line just to make sure that everything was perfect and everything was.

Editing was easy because we had long handles, could have done with a couple more shots but apart from that everything was fine, i found it very easy to edit the scenes and to put them together. I also had help from nicola who is also a good editor and would recommend her.

Music was chosen by the group, i listened through one of the teachers CD's and found a track that sounded as if it would suit, i asked the group and they told me to put it over the film and see if it worked, and fortunatly it did, very well in fact. This Is how the music was chosen.

We had made a brillaint piece. The comments were all positive, no-one could spot a mistake, the only negative comment which was from the teacher who said it was only a "Nit Picking Comment" was that the cuts weren't perfect, and that they were a few frames out, which was true, but apart from that there was nothing wrong with it which means a major improvement from the preliminary exercise. From the comment though it means that in the Final project i am going to have to spend more time on the editing when editing to make sure that i get it perfect.