28th November

Continued to develop my storyboard on an Apple Mac computer using Comic Life. Any new ideas I may have had in the week have been put into consideration, as I listen to more podcasts on film and media I find I am becoming more aware of the messages within them. Again, I considered a few more ideas, some about an interview scenario, which I have kept as a possibility in case my first choice is no longer viable. In the process of doing this I took a few more photos with the built-in camera and added captions to them too, although I do think that I should get down to some filming, I will try to get the cameras out next week.

24th November

I’ve had some ideas! There is obviously the plain idea of just filming a conversation as the specification says, but I think a dark and mysterious setting could also work well. After this weekend I started to develop a storyboard of my ideas on Comic Life on an Apple Mac computer. Macs are pretty easy to use, I like how they are much simpler to do things on then regular old Windows computers. It is at this point that I must get some of my ideas written down, it seems the program I used can put photos into a story board type view, so I used some photos using the built-in web-cam to illustrate my ideas, adding a few captions along the way.

21st November

Still no luck with any ideas. I have researched the different types of camera shots that are required in the preliminary exercise, they seem simple enough. Got to make sure I understand the concepts behind the 180 degree rule as well, bit of a hard one to get your head round but I should manage. Reverse shot and the two shot were some of the required shots, easy to include, shouldn't be a problem.

17th November

This seems like it could be a really fun project to do. I had always thought about making my own little movies with Windows Movie Maker but never really thought it worth doing. Now I actually get to do it to contribute towards my school work! I better start thinking of things to film.