Movie Production.

Hi, I'm Tom Hollis and this is my first blog which will being going through the production of my movie. I'm a student at Gordano school in Portishead. I completed this task with a group of three: myself, Sam Austin, and Hannah Gadd. The task we had to complete whilst shooting this video was to incorparate a 180º shot; which would occur in conversation.
We decided to go with a spaggetti western theme, but tried to add humour. This is quite a unique category, so I think this was a bit risky as we didn't know anything about films of this category. Most of what we thought of came from stereotypes, such as the background music.
We used very basic equipment to film the movie, it consisted of: a camera, a tripod, and a few chairs. After we filmed it we edited it using iMovie on a Mac.
To film our movie we used the media room in our school, we also used the corridor outside. We had a double lesson to film our movie (100 minutes) but this was more than enough time as we were editing by the end of this as we had around 20 minutes spare. We could of taken one of the shots another time as it turned out quite badly.
To edit the film we had to separate each scene as we didn't do this whilst filming, but it didn't take very long because the software made it very simple. The things that took the longest were the edits, and actually choosing our best shots. We downloaded our backing music from iTunes and it was very simple to drag into our movie.
We planned the film reletively spontaneously so a lot of improvisation was involved, but I think it worked, and luckily we filmed it very fast. We made the funny atmosphere by using sound effects and novelty end credits.