1. Equipment set up and pre filming
We decided to try and film as much as we could in one night as we
were feeling inspired and ready to film. First of all, we set up the
camera. We had to let the camera battery charge for a small period of
time before setting it up so we could be sure the camera wouldn’t
turn off mid shooting. We first of all started by shooting the scenes
where the main character isn’t in a flashback; these are the scenes
from the beginning and the end of my film. I thought it would be
logical to film these at the same time as she would be in the same
mindset and wearing the same clothes etc.
This is a photo of the set-up of our camera. I used this video camera
and a tripod provided by the college to make sure my footage was
clear and up to professional standard and also not shaky unless I
wanted it to look like that for effect e.g. if the character is shaking and
frightened I could mimic that through the camera shots. I didn’t use
any professional or studio lighting as all my shots were filmed in a
house, and I wanted to use the standard lighting around us to make it
look as natural and normal as possible. I also didn’t record any of the
audio in the background so I didn’t use a mic; this is because I’m
adding a voice recording, music and small sound effects over the
whole film so there was no need for a mic. We ran through practice
scenes on the camera to get the hang of filming first and then finally
started shooting our first scenes.
The only problems that arose whilst filming the first few scenes was
that the tripod would sometimes slip down meaning the angle of the
2. camera would be lower therefor not giving me the shot I wanted.
However, we fixed this by securing the clips on the tripod. Because of
pre-production and the story boarding I done, it made the filming
process run a lot smoother as I already had that idea of what I wanted
to shoot in my head and I knew how it was going to look; we tweaked
the scenes a little bit due to some scenes looking better from
different places and more of what I had in mind, however a lot of my
film was very similar to the storyboard and prep.
