Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Problem Solving During Filming
Lighting and Trains – We would have really liked to have film as dawn breaks, in the mist and dark lighting of early morning hours. The lighting would have naturally changed during shooting so to have a running consistency through shots we would have had to have planned really well. The timing and lighting would add some suspense to our opening and highlight the importance and urgency of the journey that our main character takes in hopes of completing something. However we were unable to film at this time, our scenes were of a journey via a train, and on a day allocated to filming trains were unavailable at this time.
Actors – We had a mad rush to find an actor for our boy character. We originally had a boy in place but at last minute he pulled out leaving us to find a character free for our allocated day for filming. This was hard to solve as people were not always available for our shooting schedule. For us to complete our filming, co-operation was needed on both sides. Our actors gave up time for our filming and we shuffled some scenes about on different days to fit around when our actors were available.
People on scene– Trains did not only affect our timing of filming and therefore our lighting, but also caused us problems when filming shots. On the day of filming the train scene, there was a biking event on location and therefore the location was really busy. We had people obstructing our shot on camera and holding our actors best performance back as we have to allow movement around the public.
Equipment/steadiness –For when we were following our main character we planned to create a point of view shot as though the shot was coming from the eyes of maybe a follower. We decided to film sections with further equipment so that we could steady our camera. We decided to film using a golf trolley to steady our camera on. We knew this wasn’t perfect but we would like to think with professional filming equipment this scene could look perfect as we would have access to equipment such as a dolly and a dolly tracking system. But when filming we had difficulty steering the trolley straight and looking over our footage we decided that those shots actually just looked messy and unsteady. We decided to go back to hand holding our camera and walking out our scenes out.
Actors – We had a mad rush to find an actor for our boy character. We originally had a boy in place but at last minute he pulled out leaving us to find a character free for our allocated day for filming. This was hard to solve as people were not always available for our shooting schedule. For us to complete our filming, co-operation was needed on both sides. Our actors gave up time for our filming and we shuffled some scenes about on different days to fit around when our actors were available.
People on scene– Trains did not only affect our timing of filming and therefore our lighting, but also caused us problems when filming shots. On the day of filming the train scene, there was a biking event on location and therefore the location was really busy. We had people obstructing our shot on camera and holding our actors best performance back as we have to allow movement around the public.
Equipment/steadiness –For when we were following our main character we planned to create a point of view shot as though the shot was coming from the eyes of maybe a follower. We decided to film sections with further equipment so that we could steady our camera. We decided to film using a golf trolley to steady our camera on. We knew this wasn’t perfect but we would like to think with professional filming equipment this scene could look perfect as we would have access to equipment such as a dolly and a dolly tracking system. But when filming we had difficulty steering the trolley straight and looking over our footage we decided that those shots actually just looked messy and unsteady. We decided to go back to hand holding our camera and walking out our scenes out.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
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