DAY 1:
Lots of fun on the camera's shooting in the Tower Building to capture our detectives 'office' scenes. This included filming our beginning and end scenes so we could capture all the footage we needed for this setting in one go with out having to worry about the scene changing /appearing inconsistent or losing Kaitlin's borrowed house-mates.
We decided to use 2 camera's so we could capture all our scenes from 2 angles as we'd have up to 3 people in 1 shot at any time, and this would hopefully give us various shots and perspectives to cut together when we edit.
A couple of the shots needed to be in 1st perspective so we had one camera mounted on the tripod and the other which I handheld (steady hands!).
We then filmed a couple of the shots of the detective (Kaitlin) trailing the key suspect of the missing hat (Wendy) at Finchers flat. We captured shots of Wendy performing various house tasks as well as a few slightly trickier shots including both characters sneaking up a flight of stairs which I captured with use of a tripods
Again we wanted to get these at different angles for us to edit together so we could focus on various things at the right time especially facial expressions - this is particularly important as our film will be a silent movie.
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| Checking out our awesome footage |
DAY 2:
We used today to capture the remaining scenes needed for the middle part of our story. We shot a variety of scenes, but one issue that definitely became apparent was our lack of a storyboard, which meant that there was a bit of guess work when it came to what scenes we'd be shooting (we had more of a general idea).
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| Filming in da beach at Broughty Ferry |
But despite that i'm definitely feeling a lot more confident using the camcorders and really feel like i've started to discover the art of capturing the right angles and trying to make the most out of a scene.
I've also learnt that Broughty Ferry makes the best icecream.
