One a lesson a week, we have a session which focuses on teaching the class how to use the cameras effectively, introduce the class to the cameras as well as basics in using them safely. Our first session of the term, we looked at the video "Teenage Dirtbag" by a band called Wheatus. This particular video was shot in a school in America, so the aim of the class was to recreate and replicate the video shot by shot to aid the class in using the cameras through effective demonstration. Before any filming could take place, we had time to familiarise ourselves with the camera by looking at how to set up the tripod to gain a steady shot and how to safely add and remove the camera from the tripod. We additionally looked at how to replace the tapes to record footage as well as how to record and zoom when filming. We then spent a lesson breaking down the opening scenes of the video in a storyboard, and learnt how effective the use of the storyboarding technique is in media production. This helped the class to realise how much time and planning is spent before the shot can be recorded, looking in detail at factors such as the location of the shot, costume and props used in the shot, the description of the sound and audio and many other factors. You will a copy of the storyboard scanned into this blog. ..............................................................
After focusing on the storyboarding of the video, we then went on location to begin to film the opening shots as a class. This enabled us to use a shooting script for the first time and learn how to put this into practice when filming. The shooting script provided us with information on the shot number, shot type, description of the action, the camera movement as well as the number of takes and notes on each take. The notes on each take would enable the class to decide as a group on whether or not the take was effective and what needed to be done in the next take to make it better. We also got to use to using the clapperboard, you will find a copy of the shooting script scanned into this blog. 
Once all the background research had been done into the video, we split up into two groups and filmed half the video each so more footage could be filmed in our restricted time period. Each group used their own props and used their own knowledge of camera movement to produce shots which were similar if not replicating the ones used in Wheatus' video. At the end of both groups conducting the filming, we came together as a whole class to edit the footage. We were split into groups and given a laptop, using the program final cut pro to edit our footage. To take part in this process, we needed to connect the camera to the laptop through a firewire cable. We then logged and captured the video so it was copied into the program and allowed us to cut between the shots. We additionally learnt how to convert the video from NTSC to PAL and reduce the frames per second. Furthermore, we were shown how to use shortcuts and to save our clip to a scratch disk. Here is a link to a copy of "Teenage Dirtbag" produced by our group and a link to an example of using timelapse filming. .................................................
Teenage Dirtbag: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0QNSAHIClA-YjQ4ZmUwMDktNWViNS00ZTZlLWE1NzUtNTM1ZTI0NWJmZTk5&hl=en_GB
Timelapse: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0QNSAHIClA-ZDQ5ZmM2MDctOTUwMC00Y2JjLWFjYTUtOTg3YjQ0MmVmMTE3&hl=en_GB
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