First Filming
On Tuesday DSD gang got together and started filming our end scene of the killer walking through the alleyway towards the victims house. Although we had allot of fun it was physically and mentally challenging, we didn't have a clear structure of everyone's roles and decided all to give out view on camera positioning and filming but also where to film and what time. We arrived at our location to early and it was still light outside so we decided to pre-prepare at a local park around the corner from my house and have a group meeting to form and construct our thoughts and opinions. It was the first time Daniel and Simon had seen the location and they were impressed with the location as they admitted it did look scary!But they also thought that the alley way was slightly to far from my house. To not bore the audience and keep them hooked we chose to use a cut, film, cut technique as the killer was walking 'casually' towards the front door. It also took allot of running around two and fro for each section of filming. Continuity had to be taken into consideration and we found ourselves being disturbed by cars parking up where we were filming, we had to at one point literally go back and film a scene again as the continuity of the all the clips would not have been flowable. It was mentally a challenge as everyone had to think spontaneously about how to position and arrange the camera so that the characters feet could be shown. It was my initial plan to involve foot steps inspired by the film Hot Fuzz but when it came to actually doing so i was confused so Simon found a top of a bottle opener and placed it underneath the camera so that we had enough view of the foot steps but also at an perfect angle, ensuring the camera stayed still. DSD came to the realization that being film crew is a demanding role and very tiring so we did take a snack break to relax and stay in from the cold. But with all of that taken into account i think it was a successful first day of filming and hope to arrive at my house on time tomorrow to do the other two scenes. With all that done and dusted editing can be looked foward to giving us a good time account of four weeks until deadline date. We are happy to be on track! YAAAAYYY
What types of shots are you using? How are you keeping them varied to engage your viewers?
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