Prompt: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
Growth
When I first began this class and started doing little project which helped me learn how to record and edit, my production was not horrible but also not amazing. What my production lacked from the early stages of the project were the little things and technical skills that make the difference in the viwers eyes. After all the scenes I recorded during this project, so many ideas begen to fire in my head and it made feel as if I was so creative. In the early stages of the project, the shots I took were mostly flat and bland, but as I continued to grow, I learned techniques like shadow depth of field which helped me blur the background in certain scenes like the bedroom scene. These small techniques may seem simple but they make the film so much deeper to the audience as this small technique made the character Oliver seem even more trapped in his own mind.
Audio
I realized that during my first edit, the sound of the lighter flickering in the first scene was not as crisp and loud as I had wanted it and it just ultimately did not capture the whole vibe that I was going for. To fix this I recorded seperate foley sounds which captured a louder sound of the lighter flickering by using a small good quality microphone directly next to the lighter. Learning how to sync foley sounds into my scenes were a huge jump in my technical skills in editing and helped me a lot in my film.
Editing
I learned that the scenes showing Oliver in the hallway dressed up for school needed to be longer and steadier to feel more boring which is what I was going for. But contrastingly, in the bedroom, I used faster cuts to show the chaos and and anxiety of the character. Learning this aspect really changed how I look at editing in films.
Script:
When I first began this class and started doing little project which helped me learn how to record and edit, my production was not horrible but also not amazing. What my production lacked from the early stages of the project were the little things and technical skills that make the difference in the viwers eyes. After all the scenes I recorded during this project, so many ideas begen to fire in my head and it made feel as if I was so creative. In the early stages of the project, the shots I took were mostly flat and bland, but as I continued to grow, I learned techniques like shadow depth of field which helped me blur the background in certain scenes like the bedroom scene. These small techniques may seem simple but they make the film so much deeper to the audience as this small technique made the character Oliver seem even more trapped in his own mind.
I realized that during my first edit, the sound of the lighter flickering in the first scene was not as crisp and loud as I had wanted it and it just ultimately did not capture the whole vibe that I was going for. To fix this I recorded seperate foley sounds which captured a louder sound of the lighter flickering by using a small good quality microphone directly next to the lighter. Learning how to sync foley sounds into my scenes were a huge jump in my technical skills in editing and helped me a lot in my film.
I learned that the scenes showing Oliver in the hallway dressed up for school needed to be longer and steadier to feel more boring which is what I was going for. But contrastingly, in the bedroom, I used faster cuts to show the chaos and and anxiety of the character. Learning this aspect really changed how I look at editing in films.
Growth
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