Sunday 25 December 2011

Saturday 17 December 2011

Practice Filming at Kensington Palace

I went to Kensington Palace on a school media trip in which we did some practice shooting. We were given a theme of 'Transformation' and had to take appropriate shots in relation to this. The trip was beneficial as it enhanced my experience of filming and I also learned new techniques to do with angles, lighting and movement which will help me when filming for my horror teaser.

Below is a short montage of the shots we took:

Monday 12 December 2011

This week,,,

Tibyaan and I made a list of all the shots that need to be filmed. We then matched them with the actors and locations that are associated with each shot to know who was needed and where they would be needed.
Using colour coding, we chunked the shots together which involved the same actors into the same colour category and then tried to sort them out and decide which shots to film first according to approximate length of time it would take to film and logical location order.
Finally, we came up with 3 main colours which translated to be days in which all shots could be filmed, dependent on efficiency and time.

Thursday 1 December 2011

Filming...

Today, I went to my partner Tibyaan's house to film the shrine, the tap scene and the tools. Having filmed before, we became a lot more aware of our use of technique, including lighting and camera movements.

THE SHRINE
After making the finishing touches, we filmed the shrine from different angles and of different lighting intensities. We, too, practised panning, zooming and tracking.

TOOLS
We collected tools from both our homes to use as the Surgeon's tools. We put them all in a tray and filmed them a few times, each with a different shade of lighting.

TAP
This was the most difficult task. Having reflected from the trouble we had from our last filming experience, we, this time, waited until it was dark enough outside. We also used the artificial lighting, which helped.

Today...

We're filming!

(we're going to re-try filming the tap scene and the tools and shooting the shrine)