Kyle's Super Swag Film Blog

This scene is taken from Jurassic Park.  The scene follows each actor as they speak by switching between shots taken by each of the three cameras used on set. The three cameras were positioned in ways that shots were taken of one actor, the other actor, and both actors at the same time. After scene was shot, the clips were put into Premiere Pro and formatted as a multi cam project. Using the multi cam viewing tool, I was able to switch between shots to follow the dialog within the scene. This resulted in the final product as shown above.

Critique Reflection After the completion of our film and the viewing of each group's film, I am able reflect on my own film. I feel that what worked best with our film was our camera work and our audio. Both of these had a large amount of effort put into them in order to ensure that they would help improve the final product. My fellow classmates had mentioned how they had felt that our use of suspense in the film was very efficient. They had said how certain scenes kept them wondering what would happen next. I feel that we need to improve on working to subvert the genre more. This issue mainly arose because of our script not being as focused as it should have been. If it were more focused then it would have been easier to incorporate more subversions to our genre. My classmates had suggested to improve on our performances. The actors in the film had done a good job with their performance, however, everybody could have worked to take their performance above and beyond what we h...

Outline of Filmmaking Process: The process of making our film started with our group conceptualizing what we had wanted to do for our project. Together as a group we discussed some ideas and outlined what our project would look like. Then, we decided which group members would perform each role for the filmmaking process. Once we had our roles decided, each member worked to prepare for filming with each role preparing differently, such as with the writer creating the script and the cinematographer creating a storyboard. After the prep work was completed, we started the filming process. Over the following weeks, we worked to shoot all of the shots we needed while adapting/making changes as needed. Once we had finally finished shooting our film, all clips were shared with each group member and we started to edit our film together. After completing our edits, our film was complete. My Role: The role that I worked to complete for my group was the role of audio engineer. During ...

Advanced Camera Movements Slider Footage: Use of Technique The way that I had thought of using the slider in a film would be to either approach or follow our characters as they move. Examples of this could be that we use the slider to move closer to a character as they walk towards the camera or to slide and track characters as they move through the frame.   Crane Footage: Use of Technique I think that we could use the crane in order to establish our characters. We could move the camera on the crane around our characters to allow us to introduce them or to follow pan across them. This would allow us to add movement instead of having a static shot of our characters. Wide Aperture (Bokeh) Footage: Use of Technique I think that we could use wide aperture to make our characters stand out during night scenes. A more "normal looking" shot could make it differentiate our subject from the darkness. However, a ...