Waterloo Road re-make

Anna's Evaluation

Another preliminary task that I carried out was a remake of a popular soap sequence.

Planning

 I used Waterloo road as I want to base my soap trailer to similar narratives, I got a sections of the script and edited now so that it wasn’t so long. I also planned out the shots I would use and location examples, I used these to create a storyboard.

Technologies

The technologies I used when creating my video involved, using the digital camera to shoot the sequence, our group used two camera to gather a range of shots, one handheld to get close up and different angles, and one tripod to get a full view of the set.

After capturing my files on the computer I had to use Adobe Premiere to edit the video. This involved deleting audio, cutting videos, reordering, timing, adding music, adding dialogue file (from deleting video), fading shots, fading music, adjusting volume,  saving the project, posting it directly to YouTube, and embedding it into my blog.

Codes and conventions

The codes and conventions I used include the shot types. I used a; two shot, MCU, over shoulder, track and long shot. These created a variation of shots within the sequence.

The dialogue we used fit the scene and made a good, dramatic narrative.

The music I choose to have playing over the sequence was “The killers, Under the gun” which I downloaded from the internet. I choose this song because it is popular so the audience will recognise it, and builds up in beat to reflect a build up in drama. Similarly I made the music fade in and continually get louder through the sequence to add more dramatic, fast based, atmosphere to the sequence.

Emma's Evaluation

This was a re make of the Waterloo Road episode 'Scene 9'. 
A group of us decided to produce a 20/30 second sequence which involved acting, filming, editing and posting.
We downloaded the script and found 'scene 9' where two teachers are talking about a substitute teacher within the school. This meant that we only needed two acting characters. We helped the two people that were in our group to learn their lines. We shortened and cut out the irrelevant dialogue so that we could fit the scene into the space of 30 seconds.

The filming of the footage included two cameras, one was handheld to add affect and the other camera was supported by a tripod so that the filming had a professional look. We used our college to add the mise en scene to look like the school atmosphere of the Waterloo Road scenes. The main camera angles that we used were similar to what the Waterloo Road series uses which were mostly two shots, over the shoulder and MCU's.

We then added the footage onto the computer and used the program Adobe Premiere to help us edit the film; this helped us to cut out any film that wasn’t necessary.

After we had finished with editing the video, I then posted our version onto my blog.