Thursday, 25 November 2010

Shooting Diaries

When on location yesterday, we collected all of our footage and are now ready to edit it down to a final video and add a soundtrack. As we only had one days filming, we have a relatively short shooting diary, however I had entered into this blog the diary from yesterdays filming drawing upon any problems or issues we had during the day and how I felt the filming went.
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Wednesday 16th March- Filming for Music Video: The day started well with us heading into college and picking the camera up from Craig, we had already completed the Risk Assessment form during Danns lesson the previous week so it was a simple process to pick up the camera and meant us heading back to Telscombe Cliffs to begin filming instantly. The weather was a dark and windy morning which suited the exact conditions we wanted to begin our film with, minus the rain which we were lucky enough that it managed to stay clear whilst we filmed. Upon arrival at our first location the beach front was deserted which was exactly how we had planned it as we wanted it to reflect an early morning and despite us not filming till 10, we managed to ensure this effect was reflected. We encountered a slight issue with the handycam,as we realised the person filming would only have one hand to be able to use in the shot as the camera would be being held in the other which proved to be difficult, however we decided for the scenes in which both hands are required to have the other person who was not filming to hold the camera whilst the other did the movement. We had difficulty with the ipod scene, as the camera could be seen in the reflection so it took a few takes to get this right, and we will edit it down during the editing process.
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All of our filming down at madeira went perfectly, with the weather continuing to be miserable, exactly how we wanted it, however there were some members of the public around so we needed a few takes to ensure no-one walked past during our shots, as it was important to ensure our character was shown totally on his own during shots. Other than that we had a very incident free filming process and returned the camera on time to Craig ready to begin our 6 weeks of editing, which we ensured we had enough time to complete.

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