Jelly Bellies Activity

Within our group we composed a story board with jelly babies. The idea of the activity was that we had to put camera angles accordinly to which scene it suited best. This enabled us to have a better insight with regards to filming and transitions. It definitely developed our knowledge as to what camera angles and transition suit a genre. We learnt from this task what the actual point of a story board is because by completing the story board it gave us clear instructions as to what we thought was necessary. Therefore all we had to do with the cameras was to execute the camera angles to a standard that we thought worked well. The difficulties were trying to take the genre we had chosen (social realism) seriously considering we were using jelly babies in the story board that we had to think hard about what transitions, black outs and camera angles to use on them. Another difficulty was putting together all the ideas. Everyone had good ideas but theres only so much you can do to one scene before it becomes too much for the viewer to understand what is going on but these were soon solved when we all had an equal input to the overall story board.