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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 13 – Post-production: “Cut!”
After the stress, the disagreements, personality and creativity clashes, hot sun, rain storms, wind, snow and whatever natural disaster that came to destroy your shoot has passed and you realise you have all the raw footage you need you can breathe a big sigh of relief. You get the awesome…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 12 – Production: Reshooting
When shooting for a production it is best to factor in time for reshooting as you will most likely be doing a lot of it. Sometimes during the shoot you don’t realise how off the lighting or angles were or that the camera was a little shaky or how certain…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 11 – Production: Shooting cutaways
When shooting for cutaways you must first consider your script and how the structure of your script will affect your shots. Cutaways are usually medium close up shots, close up shots and extreme close up shots, as the show more detail than a wide angle or medium shot. This is…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 10 – Production: Jamaicans hate cameras
I remember one of the first things my photo-journalism lecturer told the class in my first year of studies was that Jamaicans either really love the camera or are really paranoid about it. I have proven this to be true time and time again when trying to get somebody to…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 8 – Pre-Production: Our duties are our lives, sir.
It is coming down to the end of the semester and we are feeling the burn of final projects. Groups are being formed and group work is being handed out. Before the field work begins our group has a sit down meeting to discuss who has what task, how each…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 9 – Documentary Pre-production: The Script
Whenever I get placed into groups to do group work, I am always somehow left with the writing task, whatever it may be. It is one thing to conjure up your own supernatural world and include people with super powers, as you can throw that story into any direction you…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 7 – Proposal Planning (pitching time!)
So you have your script, your equipment, your location, completed your recce and storyboard, what else is left to do? Gear up because this part can be quite nerve racking. Now it’s time to pitch your ideas to your client and find out how they feel about your pre-production hard…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 6 – Storyboard vs. the Script
Another vital part of taking your imaginations and stories from paper to screen is story boarding. A storyboard not only makes your script clearer but it serves well for cinematography, camera and directional purposes. It paints a very clear picture of what the writer, director and producer wishes to happen…
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Continue reading →: CS3 Blog 5: R-E-C-C-E — can you even pronounce this?
R-E-C-C-E. Believe it or not it took me nearly the entire class to be able to pronounce this word. Is it even English? Well whether or not it is English is highly unimportant. It’s relevance speaks to the preparation of a videographer, production manager, producer, and director before a shoot.…
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