Tutorial Four and Five: Video Production Sessions

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Here is a short fim that I created and loaded onto the site youtube:



Film production

Making a short film is a fun way to spend some time which involves alot of planning and scriptwriting, once you have created a short film it can be shared for everyone to see on youtube. But what is youtube....?

Youtube is the interactive website that allows people to share their videos with the world. Viewers can rate videos posted and the amount of times a video has been watched can be seen at the bottom of the video. T.V programmes, music, home videos and world news can all be posted onto this site which provides a way for different areas of the world to communicate and share their news and music etc.


....and why is it so important to plan your movie?

When wanting to make a video planning the video is very important. When planning my video with my group we had a big discussion on possible themes of our video, who would be the main characters, whether it would be a serious video or a comedy and other various factors like this. We also used a storyboard once we had a good idea of what we wanted our video to be about. The storyboard was very helpful in planning each scene for our video, it gave us a good idea of what was going to happen in each section of our video and provided us with the necessary stucture to make a good video. As a group we created the storyboard and went through each scene afterwards to ensure everyone knew what was happening.

We then produced a small script for each scene made on the storyboard. Providing a script is important as it gives everyone a starting point for each scene so we weren't just making things up on the spot. It was something that helped to also give our video more structure and gave us all more confidence that our video was going to make sense.