Tutorials Four and Five Video Production

For these two weeks we are looking to plan, produce and upload a 30 second film on YouTube........ hmmm not so sure about this..........watch this space, or maybe better not to!Hopefully it won't turn out to be an unintentional comedy ha ha.

Well its now Thursday night and we produced our film today. Due to the extremely tight timelines we had, it was important that we had planned our film well. We did this by initially agreeing on a idea for the film and then breaking that idea down into sections. We used a storyboard (which is similar to a comic strip) and for each section we worked out the exact sequence of events that we were going to shoot, the lighting and the most appropriate type of shot eg panning or close up.

Using the storyboard forced us to be more thorough in our planning, it was also really useful having the storyboard with us when we went out to to shoot, everyone knew what was happening, and where we were up to. By having the sequence and plan down on paper we were also able to shoot quite quickly which was a huge advantage because the camera we were using was low on batteries and memory space. After a few technical hitches we finally got the footage we required and have uploaded it from camera to computer. Apparently next week we will be editing and uploading our video onto Youtube.

For those of you who don't know Youtube is a videosharing website where users can upload and share videos (Wikipedia, 2010). According to About.com (2010) users are also able to to rate videos, add comments and subscribe to their favourite producers.

Youtube can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/

References:

Wikipedia. (2010). Youtube. Retrieved March 19, 2010, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

About.com. (2010). Youtube explained: Overview of Google video sharing tool. Retrieved March 19, 2010, from: http://google.about.com/od/moreaboutgoogleaps/p/youtubeprofile.htm