Filming day 4

We re-filmed the scenes involving Jake, Dom and Rosy at school. We decided to re-shoot these as the transitions between shots did not flow as well as we had hoped and also we felt that we did not use a wider variety of shots, angles and movements as we could have done to take full advantage of the setting.

The first time we filmed these scenes I sat on a moveable chair and handheld the camera whilst Toby pushed me in order to create the tracking shot that followed the characters feet/legs as they walked down the corridor. Yet, when back chanelling through the takes that we did, we noticed that the movement was not entirely still and that the camera kept moving in and out of focus due to the lack of experience that we had with using that specific camera.

This time round, we came across a camera device in which enabled us to attach the camera to a piece of equipment in which acted as a moving tripod rather than a standstill one. The device allowed us to attach the camera at the front section and be able to move the different levers in order to create either a low, high or canted angle shot. By having the bar that ran across the right side of it, we were able to move the camera up and down in a smooth transition in which allowed us to create panning shots which we used to move up and down the body of the characters in which helped to reveal their identities as it moved from their feet to their faces. The fact that it was on wheels also helped a lot as it meant that we could create a much smoother and accurate tracking shot/movemenent when following the characters as they walked down a corridor.

Although it took us a while at first to get to grips with understanding how the device moved and worked, in the end we were all able to use it confidently and felt completely able to create the effective shots and movements that we were aiming for leaving day 4 of filming as a great success.