Other Pieces of work...

This is just a brief collection of some other pieces of work i've done, including both Preliminary tasks from media, as well as project i've done just for fun.

The Chase:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThisAlternateReality?feature=watch


This short chase sequence was one of the first proper videos that me and my friend Taz did. It was a complete spur of the moment video idea that we came up with during the summer. We spent an hour planning the entire scene by walking along all the different locations and thinking of effective camera angles, as well as ideas on what to do at certain points, such as the scene where Taz uses a pole to try and kick me.
After we had the entire video planned out, we ran a few practice shots to ensure that we could do it safely, especially the kick scene as it wasn't the most safest plan. we did the entire thing around 4 times and the kick scene we ran around 20 practices to get it right.
When we recorded this scene, the only editing software we had was windows movie maker, so we couldn't add proper effects the guns and we had to get a gun sound effect from YouTube. However we had planned to re-make this video now that we have new software and better equipment, but at the moment its finding the time. Plus its cold...

Inviso-Suit:



This is another video that we came up with on just one day. The idea came to mind because i had recently learnt how to create the 'Invisble Cloak' effect and we wanted to put it to action.



Taz had also just got a Morph suit so we thought that maybe we could turn the morph suit invisible as was the similar sort of idea. We wanted to try and make Taz look like some crazy scientist who was researching a variety of material and chemicals trying to find a way to create an invisibility suit. Of course we didn't have all the appropriate props that we would need to make it look really effective, but we managed to improvise with some white boards we had. During this video, i had a play around with some other effects, like the scene where there's 3 videos on top of the main one.
There's numerous problems with this video that i didn't pick up on straight away. In most scenes the cameras really unsteady because we did most of it handheld, then in the last shot, we used a tripod, plus the room was darker at that scene compared to the rest of the video.
The main problem that i've noticed (That seems to keep popping up in most video's that me and taz have done, like how pixar have Wall-e in every film) is in the scene where the scientist runs into the 'Invisio-Chamber'. As he dances towards it, you can see a tripod sat on the side. The tripod has also appeared in my Draft AS film, My final A2 video (Twice) and in my Final AS film. Somehow, no matter what we do, we always seem have the tripod in a shot.

Draft AS:



This is my draft film from AS media. Numerous things went wrong during my AS coursework, such as people not turning up to shooting and forgetting equipment. Plus we were not allowed to use the original location idea i had planned on. So in a desperate attempt to finish my draft on time, i had to use the school as the location and ask 2 friends that luckily didn't have lessons at the time to star in the film for me.
The mise en scene just does not work for the effect i was trying to create as it was meant to be a horror film, and the characters just don't look the part. Plus for some unknown reason, video is really jumpy throughtout the entire video.
The one thing i do like about this video is the titles and credits, because they seemed really effective, as they were an idea i got from another horror film that i had watched.