Weekly Production Log: Week 1

In our first lesson we looked at previous pieces of work and the mark schemes and see what they were graded and why. From Looking at the Mark Scheme, I have seen that you must include good camera language, make sure that the production relates to the target audience, appropriate sounds and editing. This must be included to get the best possible grade and through what we saw, we could see huge differences in how the camera language was. For example, One of the productions "South Paw" was filmed hand held and this made a difference as the production was therefore tatty and not professional compared to "Damaged Goods" which was filmed using a tripod and this gave it a professional look and this is what gave it a much better grade.
This will definitely impact my production as it will make me think of what I should and shouldn't put into my production. This gives me clear ideas of not using hand held cameras but for the professional look, I should use the tripod to film my shots. Also this will impact the theme of what I will base my movie clip on. As it is going to be based on British Social Realism, we saw many themes, but only certain ones we found interesting so it made me think I want a theme that ill enjoy and that will be interesting.
I will try to avoid using hand held cameras as I said before as its not balanced so shakes a lot and makes the shot look really bad and will make a huge difference on the end grade as we have seen through the mark scheme.Also I will also try to avoid getting a lot of background noise because it ruins conversations and any other dialogue going on so we must make sure of this before filming.

Here is an example of bad camera language in which the shot was hand held and very shaky making it seem very amateurish