Short film making – Summary for “iNose” the movie

Pre production

Pre production went for the whole of term 3, we had to:

-Think of a story

-Write a screenplay

-Draw the storyboard

-Get our actors

-Do a bit of planning for filming

I found this to be easiest part for us; it just took a long time for us because of the other assignments we had to do. The hardest thing about this part was probably thinking of an original story. Writing the screenplay was easy after we knew what the story was, and the storyboard was just a visual representation of our screenplay.

We also sort of got Brady.M, Ben and Matt to play the parts of our main characters. We planed Ian to play one of the parts (but we didn’t end up filming with him)

I knew where we were going to film most of our movie at this stage.

Production

Places we filmed:

-Underpass (legal spray painting site)

-Isabella Plains Primary School car park

-Street in Isabella Plains

-My house

-Photography lab

The first day of filming involved us filming for about 1.5 hours; we had Brady, Ben, and Matt to act for us in that period. We got some good filming done in that period; although we didn’t use a tripod (I planed to stabilize the film in the post production). Ben’s car broke down at lunch so we couldn’t film for the second period.

Brady M got bashed by some A…Holes on the weekend, so we were down 1 actor for the next filming session.

Our second day of filming, we had Matt, Chris Colless, and Lyle to film for us. Chris replaced Brady; I played the part of Joe.

Post Production

Currently i am in the process of post production. I'm useing After Effects to stabilize the film and resize the aspect ratio closer to 16:9. Also i need to key out a bluescreen scene and put in a flash background.

I am also in the process of removing noise from the sound files, and aslo removing unwanted sounds from the movie. I still have to record some sound effects and make it fit into the movie.

Then then i need to put the movie togather befoure november 16th...

Just some thoughts/what lies ahead...

By going through the production prossess of making a movie i have learn a lot of things/skills:
-Making a film is not eazy
-There is a lot of plannning involved
-learnt to/got better at useing a lot of software like After Effects, Audiocity....
-got a lot of skills for filming/editing
-learmt to write a proper screenplay
-a lot more


There is about 3 weeks left to get this film done. I have left a lot of things to do for the last 3 weeks (whioch was stupid)