Practice Filming

Before filming our final opening sequence, my group decided to do a practice short film to try out different camera angles and shots. We wanted to focus on the camera shots and not dialogue, video effects or credits because we wasn't that confident in using a camera and we wanted to focus on one thing and try and make it look good.  Heres the result: 

How filming went: 

At first we tried out many different camera angles like shot/reverse shot but then we decided to cut that as we diet feel it flowed that well. The shots we used included, close ups, long shot, cross cut and birds eye-view. We started out with a brief storyline and went from there, adding more and more detail into every shot to insure we have a video that made sense but also had some camera techniques in. We gave everyone a chance to film random things like students and teachers walking past. 

Problems we encountered: 

During filming this practice scene, we encountered some problems thats were unavoidable mainly because of our location. Many students and teachers kept on walking past the camera which meant we had to start the filming again. Another problem was that we had never used a tripod before so the legs were sometime not level or we couldn't connect the camera to the tripod. As I was acting in it, sometimes I would mess up or laugh which sometimes made me unfocused when filming but I quickly got back onto the task. As we had only just used a camera, our skills were limited which meant that when we put the clips together the camera was very shaky and not controlled. 

Next time I will: 

This practice filming has helped me not just with my final opening sequence but also with my preliminary task that I will have to include in my blog. To insure I have a successful final sequence and prelim video I will use a varied mouth of shots to make it interesting, edit the footage to emphasis the message/emotion I'm trying to convey and to make sure my group chooses a suitable location to film so we don't get interrupted.