Short Film Shooting

Make sure the actors are well equipped to act and are wearing creative clothes that match your narrative arc. Avoid clothes with large name brand logos.

Review the following concepts that you previously learned about shooting video:

--> Student Videos Tutorials: - Focusing, Composition, Audio, & Lighting

--> Shooting with Rule of Thirds (video) & Shot Composition (video)

--> Ways for filming your footage

--> Camera angles, subject shots, & action shots,

Cameras

Film at high quality (at least 480p) and if you are using dialog among your actors, it is very important that you place the camera near the subject so you can record their audio at a higher quality like the video tutorial taught you.

Stable

Remember that the camera needs to be steady when filming and a tripod is recommended. Points will be taken off if the camera shakes too much.

Requirements

Use at least five of each: Camera angles, cuts, subject shots, & action shots,

Time

Film over five minutes of footage and then later you will edit it down to 3-5 minutes, which matches the length of your song.

Master ShotsUse your Master Shot and one additional Master Shots that was shared in class that will fit well with your narrative arc. Special Effects-Use one creative thing from After Effects that will fit your video.

Premiere Setup

When you are finished, create a new folder called Short Film in your CA folder in your school account's Google Drive. Then create a folder in the Short Film folder called Clips & Deleted Clips and sort all of your footage into these two folders but never actually delete any clips as you never know when you may need them.

Open Adobe Premiere and choose the HDV 720p24 preset sequence (right screenshot) and name it Last, First Name Short Film and save it in your Short Film folder on your Google Drive. After you save it correctly you will see that it creates a few other Premiere folders (example below) that it needs to save and run your project.

Upload

When you are finished, upload and sort your footage in the Google Drive. Take a screenshot of your video file thumbnails in the folder as well as screenshots of video clips of your protagonist and antagonist uploaded to Schoology.