The aim of the days filming session was to film all the flashbacks between Emily and Joe as well as the audio scene before the song starts. It took place on Monday 18th October at Sophie's house. I was not present for this shoot as I had other school commitments but the rest of my group were there and have given me a detailed account of what happened.
New techniques
As this is an advanced portfolio, the group were thinking of ways to demonstrate that we can work at a higher level than we did at AS. They came up with the idea of using 2 cameras; by doing this it meant they could film one scene from two angles, and then edit them together so the continuity will be perfect. They thought that this might be tricky to edit, but decided to give it a go.
It worked well, the only difficulty was positioning it so that the other camera was not in shot. It often took a while to make sure that the framing of both shots was correct, and that no other camera could be seen. We will not know how successfully this idea will be until we begin editing this particular section, but we are hoping that it will create a smooth look to the video which looks more professional rather than simply re-enacting the same scene twice but from different angles.
Flashback Shots
Here are some photographs of the flashback images filmed, they show the type of angles and locations that were chose for each particular shot.
Here are some photographs of the flashback images filmed, they show the type of angles and locations that were chose for each particular shot.
Most interesting/successful shot of the day:
One of the best shots took place when filming the flashback where Emily puts her suitcase in the car. Charlotte thought of it, and it consisted of filming Emily putting the suitcase into the car from the inside of it. To do this, the camera had to be unattached from the tripod and sit inside the car and hold the camera free hand. At first, it caused problems framing Emily in this shot, but after a few attempts a successful shot was obtained.
One of the best shots took place when filming the flashback where Emily puts her suitcase in the car. Charlotte thought of it, and it consisted of filming Emily putting the suitcase into the car from the inside of it. To do this, the camera had to be unattached from the tripod and sit inside the car and hold the camera free hand. At first, it caused problems framing Emily in this shot, but after a few attempts a successful shot was obtained.
How did the filming go overall?
Today the filming went okay. Lately the group have been feeling very time-pressured as we are all keen to make the first-cut deadline after half term; I do believe that we will achieve this. This does worry us somewhat as it makes us think that our shots may reflect how rushed we sometimes found ourselves, and today a lot of the shots were filmed free-hand purely because there wasn't enough time to constantly adjust the tri-pod as Joe needed to be somewhere at a certain time. Saying this, it did go well; most of the shots we wanted were maintained (plus a few more which were thought of during filming) and hopefully they will all be to a good a standard.
Today the filming went okay. Lately the group have been feeling very time-pressured as we are all keen to make the first-cut deadline after half term; I do believe that we will achieve this. This does worry us somewhat as it makes us think that our shots may reflect how rushed we sometimes found ourselves, and today a lot of the shots were filmed free-hand purely because there wasn't enough time to constantly adjust the tri-pod as Joe needed to be somewhere at a certain time. Saying this, it did go well; most of the shots we wanted were maintained (plus a few more which were thought of during filming) and hopefully they will all be to a good a standard.
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