Film title – <Out of Step>

-Today I did the shootings and set up all by myself, after chatting with Robin and our group, I totally agree with Robin that we only got the main structure shoot, influenced by a lot of dramas and music video I have watched I do prefer to the director who shows all the details in every shots, in order to show the transition of the character’s emotion/ feelings.  The way to make our film look more abundant, the film need more detail such as: close-up on Carina’s face; close-up on the props that helps to emphasize her inner struggle and the sense of lost.

-Getting a proper title is always important for every piece of media, a good name may help to attract audience, direct your audience to know what is the content, summarise your film. Our group has each came up with three names to choose from, but neither of them allowed us to make a decision, and Robin gave a suggestion — Out of Step, because in our film we’ve been showing her steps in varies angle, distance and different shots are aiming to emphaszie the sense of losing direction, apart from the community.

I was quite worried to do it all by myself for the first time, although while setting up all the equipment everything wasn’t as bad as I imagined which gave me more confident to do this. Expect for one thing that was a bit out of my control, it was the control of how many people appearing in the scene and the continuality. There was a scene that needed a lot of ‘students’ from the studio to be in the background, however, according to the people in the studio always come and go and I cannot gather a big number of my friends to come at one day for my shooting. When I chat with Robin about my planning whether I want to shoot the actual situation of what happens in the studio or I want to get people act the thing out. I was pretty sure that I want an actress to play the main character, and thought will be good to have some scenes that happen naturally. I did not expect to have a lot of people on Friday, the situation was very hard to control as not everyone feels comfortable to appear in my camera without informed; there were people being very curious at my camera and storyboard; people were talking too loud while the camera rolling etc. There were way lots of people than I thought which I cannot get them out of the way so I have to try and not have them appear on my frame, I guess if Robin ask me one more time, I will be 100% sure that I need to set up the whole thing never let a camera keep rolling at a uncontrollable space, its just waste of battery.

Checklist: 

• Actress, location, equipment, group members time available
• Get the location set, how many people need to be in the background?
• Audio recording check, switch on to the internal recording
• makre sure every actors’ clothing are the same
• white balance
• never on auto