Welcome to the blog of Rasam Production's Asa Newmarch (The Cinematographer), charting the evolution of the opening to the new feature film "Test Drive", jointly produced with Sam Pollock (The Director) and Rob Shaw (The Producer). You'll be able to see the final cut on YouTube [will be linked on a future day] as well as various short videos and vod/podcasts right here on this blog! Enjoy, and please feel free to comment/add suggestions!

Sunday 12 December 2010

Mise-en-scene Task



We were given just 5 lessons to: pitch an idea for a 30-60sec opening sequence; form groups having voted on the favourites; storyboard; shoot; edit; present and semiotically deconstruct. Exposition has to be primarily provided through mise-en-scene + shot selection; only 17 words of dialogue were permitted.

Microdrama Task



The task incorporates application of various narrative theories, but is just as importantly this was all about experimenting with the cameras and iMovie for the first time.

Friday 10 December 2010

How to improve the prelim for the coursework

Despite the good quality of our prelim, there are many aspects of it, which could be improved for the coursework itself. Firstly, the acting was mixed from my perspective, my partner's acting was alright, while mine however wasn't because I feel that the pitch of my voice was too deep. I believe that the quality of the acting is important, due to the fact that the higher the quality, the more people who take it seriously.

Another problem is the fact that we didn't use a tripod to film and because of this, we had a couple of shaky shots and having a tripod would of made the filming much better, since we could of had some still shots.

Finally, the last problem is that there weren't very many hints that our prelim was a Rom-com, since the box of Malteasers was the only thing which showed that our prelim was a Rom-com. There could of been more hints, such as more humor and signs of love.