Frayed Ends: Filming Day 1 (05/12/15)
In my opinion, filming for the first time was very productive because it gave us an idea as to what filming was going to be like, and proved more of a challenge than we had once thought. We used Emily's bedroom as the location for our filming and did it in the morning next to a large window, so that the quality of our footage wasn't affected by the poor lighting that comes which is usually an issue with filming inside.
What we filmed today were the shots of Jodie (played by Jaimie Hampton) in her house, getting ready for school. We managed to film all footage of Jodi before she gets on the bus, and so the filming was influential to the task and gave us an insight as to what the final footage would look like with those pieces of film we gathered.
To improve, I think we should have had much steadier camera work throughout as we had quite a few wobbly shots and the ones that were wobbly were probably wonky. Therefore, next time we film we will need to use a tripod from school. As a group and with feedback we had from the class and teacher, we decided that what we have filmed won't be good enough to use in our opening sequence as it is wonky and the camera work is quite poor with grainy image quality, which we kind of expected from our first proper time filming. On top of this, we didn't capture a broad enough variation of camera angles and therefore when we edit it, it would not have enough on-screen movement to engage the interests of our audience.
As a result, next time we film will be using a wider range of camera angles so that we can have a more varies set of angles to choose from when it comes to editing the sequence together.
Ella, Megan & Emily at filming
Frayed Ends: Filming Day 2 (12/12/15)
Today we were able to film the footage for the other protagonist in the sequence, Kathryn (played by Chloe Kemp). I felt that the filming today was quite rushed as we were struggling to get all of our recording done in the light, as we started filming later in the day. However, we did get a good outcome from the shooting today.
We managed to shoot all of the sections of Kathryn before she leaves the house. The unavailability of Jaimie meant that we couldn't film the parts we planned in front of the school building because they both had to be in the scene. I am happy with the filming that came out of today's session, but the low key lighting in the house was an issue for me because I think some of the shots are too dark for us to use and therefore could be a much higher quality.
I would personally like to re-film some aspects of today's footage if we have the time to do so before deadline. If not, and we can't fix it in editing, i'm not sure if a third time trying to film the same shots will be worth it, and we may have to consider a new idea as there are too many flaws in what we have, and I think it may be of too low a quality and too complicated to ever achieve to the standard we are aiming for.
Megan & Emily at filming
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