The Filming Process

Filming Process

During filming we found using the equipment fairly easy. It took 10 minutes of testing before we understood how to use the dolly and tri-pod effectively. During the filming of each shot we took multiple shots of the same scene to make sure we had at least one good take of each scene and ensuring we didn’t have to re film the scene. We found one of the scenes hard to film (scene were we had to film someone walking at a low angle) during this we found the tri-pod would not go to the correct height so we filmed it by hand. During post production we found the camera shacked too much in each take. This lead to us re filming. We solved this by putting it on top of the dolly without support therefore it would pan smoothly with minimal shaking.

 

During filming we had to change a few aspects of our scene due to limitations and time. One of the biggest changes was that we had originally planned to have a knife as the murder weapon, but we only found a prop gun therefore we use this instead. After changing the shots and thinking of new ideas we found that using the gun was more beneficial since more shots could be used and it would look better overall.

 

When working together we found that to best manage our time we would split into two sub groups in order to complete the work quickly. While two of us did the script the other two would complete the shot list. This only took one lesson and during the next we found ourselves prepared to film. We all did filming and editing together and found that we had a few disagreements but nothing that would affect progress dramatically. While Tom and Nathan did the shot list I and Sam did the script. We all contributed to the rest of the aspects included in filming and editing.