2. How it went?
During our filming day we used our storyborad for most of the shot
planning however, when filming we spotted some extra oppitunies for
better shots.
So throughout the filming day we found that we were more following it as
a rough guide however when it come to doing these shots we got a bit
more creative and used many different shots.
However we still stuck to our storyborad for the most part but just added
in some shots and re worked some other shots to butter suit the teaser.
3. What changed ?
This is one of the new shots
that we came up with on the
filming day, rather than have
our character just seeing our
character Jane walking to the
house from a long shot outside
the house, we decied to add a
shot of her feet walking to the
door (close up)
4. What changed?
We decided to use a mix of 3rd person and 1st person
shots as we can see in this photo were I look a bit goofy.
We felt like this made the trailer more breathable and
easier on the flow of shots as cutting between 1st person
only shots would have felt tight and the rapid cuts
between each character would have felt too fast for that
point in our teaser. So some 3rd person shots were
added to slow down the edit and make it flow nicer.
We also added some more expeimental shots e.g. low
angle shot of jane walkking to the door with the camera
placed right in the corner of the outside door looking
down on her, we felt this better conveyed the power our
villian had over her.
We also used the manual focus to switch between the
background of jane walking to the house while our villian
watched her and then to the foreground of his shoulder
creating a bokeh like effect.
5. Problems
Some of the problems we faced were accidentality truing off the exposer
lock on the camera which meant that a shot were I walk directly in front of
the camera cause it to adjust the exposer to brighten the image but as I
walked away a mass of light fills the camera and we can clearly see the
camera adjust again.
We was going to re shoot this, but we got caught up with everything else
and ran out of time as we only nocited this close to the end of filming.
We also had to reshoot a conversation between our two characters which
solved the issue with our first shots continuity (bags were in shot) however
it was later in the day and the it was darker outside so we will have to do
our best to edit the lighting in final cut.
6. My role
I worked as both a camera operator and an actor (see the last 2 images for
evidence) I shot all of the first shots were jane was walking to the house
and set up the cameras around the door, for the first couple of shots.
I then had to play our villain John so Katie took over as camera operator.
For the rest of the filming day I mostly played John but did shoot some
other stuff such as shots from outside the house of jane trying to escape
and some ambient shots of the environment e.g. the gas coming from the
pipe of the house.
As well as this I assisted with some other shots by holding things in place
while being out of shot e.g. doors Jane was trying to open, as most of the
doors didn't have locks. And helped with some of the directing and took
some of our poster and magazine cover photos of Jane.
7. Developed Skills
I believe the day helped me better my technical skills as I'm now more
aware of some of the mistakes we made with the lighting as in side the
house some shot's look a bit unnaturall as well as the camera itself, being
more aware of the time of day and settings like exposer lock.
It also helped my develop my production skills as we had to get a whole
trailer done in a day this forced us to work effectively and we switched
leaders throughout the day. I elieve that this allowed us to get everyone's
ideas and thoughts into our production. We also had a lot of conversation
about shot ideas which could get a bit competitive but always ensured we
ended up with a good shot.
