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Below is my final video that I created for this brief. I am rather happy with the way that it has turned out and I put a lot of effort into making it slightly humorous at the same time which I hope has come through as well. I’m also happy with some of the shots that I used, even though some don’t work out as well as I had hoped I am still very happy, as I had a very limited amount of time, as we were trying to get everything shot and edited in one day, but that besides, I am very happy with the final result.

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After I had completed my storyboard I was ready to start filming, this was a really exciting section for me to do as I had never done anything like this before. I wanted to make sure that I stuck to the script and storyboard well as to not miss any scenes out that were important and also so that I could ensure that the video was as good as I could make it in the limited amount of time that I had. After I had gathered all the footage I looked through it all seeing which bits would work well together and which needed to be scraped. This is the time when I also created the animatics for my video. I used the images that I had drawn on my storyboard and matched them up with the footage so that I had a storyboard that included actual stills from my final video.

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Before I moved onto filming my final video I wanted to take another closer look at another ‘How to’ video so that I could get an idea about some of the shots used in videos. The one that really interests me is just the simple shot of the person being in the centre of the camera as they go through what they’re doing on camera and this then works well with what I’m going to be doing in my video. There are a lot of other interesting camera angles in this one as well; such as the shot where the person in it is going down the stairs. I really love the way she has filmed this scene where it has one angle of her making her way down looking from above her, and the cuts to the shot from the bottom of the stairs looking up at her as she walks down. This is a kind of time lapse shot that I can incorporate into my video as well, and it the type of shot which I want to look at when I’m shooting the scene where I’m getting ready and dressed.

Even though quite a lot of this video isn't necessary to what I am going to be doing it has been excellent to look at to see what I could include in my own video and what also doesn't work in the video so I know not to include it. To begin with the start of hers is quite labored and doesn't work when she reaches out to turn the alarm off; this is due to the fact that it looks staged and fake. Another part that I don't like is the part where she is putting her make up on, this is the part that takes the longest and I will either speed this up further in mine or I will create another time lapse.

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The next process I did in creating my video was do an accurate as possible storyboard of shot frames and scenes that would be in the main sections of my videos so that when I was filming I could follow it through clearly and I would always know what I was doing and I wouldn’t become lost as this would waste time spent filming. When I was creating the storyboard, at all times I thought clearly about how much time I had to fill up with footage and also about what shot was going to work best in the space I had and also how the lighting was going to work in the small room that I was filming in. Below I have included images of both pages of my storyboard and also a scan of some notes that I made on the shot framing.

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Upon deciding what theme to do I quickly started to do some initial sketches in my notebook about what I was going to do in terms of a plot and also looking at some basic shot framing. In these initial notes I wanted to get everything ready for when I started the storyboard and these pages do explain what happens in each section of the video and also show my thought process in creating the video.

              

  

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Upon deciding what theme to look at and what I was going to film, I then did some research into different camera angles and also different shot frames that I could do to ensure that my video looked exciting and interesting. At this point I also decided on what my target audience would be. As I want to make a humorous video I decided that it would be best to go with a target audience that was around my own age; so I placed this from 14-25 year olds, or around there so I could be myself in the video as well. After deciding on the audience I then looked on the internet at other ‘How to Get Ready’ videos; which I found lots but none that were under a minute. The shortest one which I found was just over 2 minutes and was the closest to what I wanted to achieve and this clip is shown below.

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Our first brief for the film section of our course was to create a 1 minute instructional video based on something that we were able to do. I actually found it rather hard at first to get ideas about what I wanted to look at, so started this brief off by looking on the internet for instructional videos that were already out there on YouTube mainly, but also looking through search engines to be able to get even more inspiration. I eventually decided on the simple idea of showing how to get ready in the morning.

As I was going to be doing a topic that could potentially run over a minute I decided to do a quick cut down version that wasn’t going to be much help, as this wasn’t the most important thing about the video. I wanted to make sure that I had all the detail in there but also that it moved onto each section quickly so I didn’t run over the 1 minute mark. The following website below also really helped me to get a general idea of what I wanted to do in the first place.

http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page