BLAST workshop

I didn't think that I would enjoy the blast workshop as much as I did. The first one that we did involved filming, during this we got to learn about and put into practice the difference in shots e.g extreme close ups, long shot and over the shoulder shots and interpreted them into a short film about superheros. Also during this we learnt about the effects that these shots had on a film, for example we had a scene where we had to drop a bottle from an unconcious persons hand. Instead of just filming the hand and the bottle dropping, we made the camera film from the arm and then go down to the bottle that then dropped, it added a good dramatic affect. We also put music to this production, by using the computer we put in a suspence track, that worked brilliantly with the shots that we had in the short production. The second time we went to Blast was to work on film stills, this is where you take a series of photos and record voices, you then put in the photos at the correct time so that it works with the voices. The class decided to do an X-facor themed film still which was very fun to film, although in my opinion we didn't learn as much about the shot ect as much as we did in the previous class. Even so at the end of the class we had the opportunity to edit the photos into a film still, adding sounds that we thought were appropriate to the film that we had just made.