Pre-Production:
My original Screenplay of choice was the fight scene between Superman and Zod. I wanted to do this section of screenplay because I like the concept of showing fighting and their emotions and expression in the film. However, we chose the screen play of the high school fight scene from Spiderman over that one because of logistical reasons. The Spiderman screenplay is was much easier to film within the school environment. This is because the scene of choice was from inside a school where the school bully ‘Flash’ is abusing Mary Jane. We filmed this scene by the lockers as this is often the typical place for fights in a school in a film. The people in my group were Harvey who played Flash; Morgan who played MJ and helped directing, James who filmed the scene and I who was Spiderman. Before filming we spoke about as a team, what we wanted to do and what kind of shots we wanted to incorporate. We discussed things like how Harvey was going to enter the frame and how long after I would enter, what fighting actions would be used and other important things that would be featured in the film.
Production:
The production time was longer than expected because of certain problems we encountered. For one, we didn’t want to make too much noise because we were conscious that there were still lessons going on. Also, we had to retake some shots more than one because of laughing in the shot.
Post production:
We all took copies of the unedited footage so we could all edit our own versions on our own. This was interesting because we could see the different styles of editing that each member of the team has and see where element of their video looks and sounds better or worse. I focused on editing the shots to be short and have the same bit of screen play from different angles. One of the things that I did in the postproduction process was to overlay the audio from one clip onto another because the first take with the line ‘how do you like it’ had better audio but the action was not as good so I overlay it onto the third take which was missing some of the dialogue but had better action. I used an equaliser to edit the audio of the dialogue and the background noise. Because the quality of the mic is not the best, a significant hissing sound could be heard on all the audio. Therefore, I created a low pass filter to cut out the top end frequencies which is where the hissing noise was. I could clearly hear the result as the hissing was almost completely gone. I then boosted the mid frequencies which was around where the dialogue was.
Peter is walking out of the school with Mary Jane when
they are ambushed by Flash. He starts to ridicule Peter,
then threatens him. Peter just clenches his jaw and backs
away. Peter does not believe in violence... and he has
never thrown a punch in his life. It just wouldn't occur
to him.
Through a row of bushes he sees Flash grab Mary Jane by
the arm and spin her around. They are arguing. Flash
slaps her across the face. Peter is so enraged his hands
snap a four inch tree limb without him realizing it.
Flash is walking to his car after gymnastics practice. It
is dark. A figure drops silently down from behind him.
Flash spins and sees a guy in a black fishnet mask.
Thinking it is a robbery, Flash swings... only to grab his
own fist in pain. It was like hitting oak.
Peter holds Flash with one hand and slaps him hard.
SPIDER MAN
How do you like it? Huh?
He slaps him again, backhand. Then he cocks back his fist
and BLAM!
Punches Flash so hard he flies ten feet. He picks him up,
gets him in a painful armlock... marches him to his
beloved Porsche and slams him brutally against it. He
pounds Flash into the car until the jock collapses, semi-
conscious. Peter then rips a signpost out of the ground
and pounds the car into junk. Glass flies everywhere.
Peter leans close to Flash and tells him to stay away from
Mary Jane... or else.
Cut to Peter running. He stops around a corner, out of
sight. In darkness he stands panting... looking down at
his hands. He rubs his knuckles.
Reflection:
Looking back on the task, I think the main things that we should have changed or done differently would have included: planning more about the flow of the scene, also think carefully about the shot type, angle and movement. I we were to redo this task, I think we should have chosen a scene with more dialogue as our one only had 1 line.
