3.1 Problem Solving.pptx
- 1. PROBLEM SOLVING Flynn Westwood Bryant
- 4. EXPERIMENTS PLAN My plan with my experiments is to get a variety of shots and get used to shooting with a camera. I will book this equipment out over the next few weeks and go to certain locations including the studio, Knaresborough Waterside to get a recce of the area and take a few practise shots. Pre existing footage I shot for prior projects such as my FMP can be used before I go to these locations as I want to invest a lot of my experiment time into learning the DaVinci resolve colour grading features as of all the software and grading methods I’ve looked at seem to be inferior. Foley sound and music are crucial to making my project so going out on separate days to film and get audio will also be important as my project depends heavily on nature meaning appropriate sound is necessary.
- 5. THEORETICAL PROBLEMS Learning the camera and how to focus and use the correct settings when shooting makes or breaks my video so using experiment time to adjust and get used to using my camera will be needed. I will do this In the form of test shots in various types of lighting to better understand. Unavailability of people will be solved through having backup actors at the ready on set shooting days planned weeks in advance to ensure availability. If I am unavailable to make it to one of my shooting locations due to transport or other reasons I have made sure I have a number of locations to film in. With use of the drone and insta360, I will have to rely on outside sources to obtain the equipment resulting in higher risk for problems as I cant sort it myself. In the event the drone wont fly or is broken I will have to try and use the insta360s drone like capability.
- 6. THEORETICAL PROBLEMS Prior projects have often been poorly organized personnel wise so I will insure I knuckle down and understand where those issues have come from. In comparison to my year 2 FMP, I have been given far more time to produce my final piece of work so as much time as possible will be allocated to creating that. Time management has been an issue in a lot of my projects to insuring I go into planning with a solid plan and one I can fall back on if I end up being behind would largely benefit me and means I wouldn’t have to be rushing to meet the deadline at the end of the FMP. In starting this project, I found I had a lack of direction in knowing where I wanted to take my project which has been an issue for prior projects such as the factual and the music video in year 1. To prevent this, I’ve made sure to research a broader topic in which is film to start with and begin to move into a more niche topic and develop an idea which would work well with what I want to create. Organizational planning has also been an issue in which people or locations have suddenly become unavailable meaning it has potentially delayed or completely changed plans on the spot showing that I need to thoroughly plan my people, locations and availability of my shoots in greater detail which is especially apparent when considering one of my main locations for shooting is the lake district which we can't just show up due to its distance away.
- 7. THEORETICAL PROBLEMS The organizational planning may also link to issues that would be on site while shooting such as job roles and shooting time. These are both to be planned out and distributed far before the initial shooting date in order for the crew to prepare and potential offer opinions or ideas which could be implemented into planning. The finance of the project is to be managed by me the director and any funds or money needed for food or to access places will be handled by me but in the event, we exceed our set budget on items such as props we will have to either rethink or get creative and make them before the shoot date with equipment we already have.
- 8. EXPERIMENTS As referenced in my research plan I went down to waterside in Knaresborough to use the camera in both high a low light scenarios, This was in hopes of getting used to the camera off auto focus which gets me time with the camera and therefore the filming in the real location will become easier. During the filming of my experiments, I found that often the camera was blurred or out of focus due to either incorrect camera settings or personal error which I then overcame by tinkering with the cameras setting to put out a clear shot. I often found myself googling how to use the camera and some of the best settings before I went out which is the product of the short at the top. Using the low light and outdoor setting on the camera put out a far better image than using the settings that were already in use on the camera at the time so changing that allowed for far better results. The aperture on the camera was also significantly low when using the camera for the first time so while I was adjusting to take the shot of the flowers below I adjusted the camera to and framed the shot to the left with a higher aperture to blur the trees in the background. This when combined with the focus of the lens
- 9. EXPERIMENTS Planning for inevitable noise pollution will be pivotal in my project as the areas I wish to film in are renowned for having a heavy breeze and lots of tourists. A method of getting round this would be to select different areas to film but in previous projects such as my year 1 FMP I found that the product isn’t as satisfactory for the creator knowing what you could have had so to work around it I relayed some pre-existing foley sound I took in my research tests and placed it over the top of the muted footage which then silenced all noise apart from the intended audio which still meant I could film wherever I wanted. Gathering this audio was as simple as going somewhere quiet and recording the sound around me and making sure it was uninterrupted by-passing people or traffic. Recording this audio was done on my phone which wasn’t ideal as I wanted to book out the audio recorders from college but luckily the iPhone mic did a
- 11. EXPERIMENTS With the colour correction I followed a tutorial I saw on YouTube about beginner colour grading and then began tweaking it to my liking. I began by doing some basic correction to the shadows, highlights and contrast to make the video pop. I then changed the video encoding engines to the correct settings as they had changed themselves. Then finally I added LUT filters and rechanged the basic grading to produce the final product shown. The time it took to learn the skill of colour grading was not one I was expecting meaning it set me back significantly in my research and problem-solving phases of my project. To overcome this, I made sure to invest time into the colour grading at home and spend my time in college working on the written aspects such as contingency plans. Learning DaVinci has been a struggle in general with it being a new software and a different interface to that of premier pro so with using the software more and more I could research more and develop my skill into a more professional looking final product. The bottom shot was my first attempt after looking through a tutorial and the top video is a piece of practice footage after numerous attempts. The bottom image looks far more flushed out while the top one appears to have a far moodier and clearer outlook which is my intended style for my video.