Evaluation of Day: 29th December 2012

Evaluation of Day: 29th December 2012

Time Lapse

There were many things that we had to do prior to our actors coming onto the location. Our first filming day was the 29th December where Rebecca, Natasha and myself began to establish the first few shots that are needed for our opening. 

To get things done quickly we split up what we needed to do on location between ourselves beforehand. I was to do the time lapse, Rebecca was to do a lighting check and Natasha to do some establishing shots so our audience have an idea of where we have set of opening.  We planned to leave the camera running for at least 30 minutes for the time lapse however, it started to rain a considerable amount therefore putting our equipment at risk, therefore only filming for 20 minutes instead. Although the rain drop on the lens of the camera were very effective through out the time lapse, this is seen in the edited video below.                
                                                                          

Establishing Shots

Amongst  Rebecca, Natasha and myself we had three camera each, however once the time lapse had been filmed there was a good 20 minutes left on my camera so instead of using the time on the flip camera we used the time up on mine. Natasha filmed establishing shots of our location focusing primarily on the church that can be seen on the left hand side of the picture above. The establishing shots can be placed at the beginning of the opening during the editing process as it allows the audience to establish an understanding of where and why we have chosen that certain location and how it will coincide with the storyline. 

Mise-En-Scene/ Lighting

Rebecca focused on the mise-en-scene and lighting for our filming location. The picture above is a shot of what she was looking at in terms of natural lighting as it's a large area to light up artificially especially during our first filming day. In terms of mise-en-scene she focused on the greenery and how it can be incorporated into our opening.

Towards the end of our filming day battery power on the cameras were beginning to run low therefore we were not going to take the risk of recording too much in the result of losing it if our camera died half way through. We tried to test out a brief chase scene where the protagonist is running whilst glancing at a picture. From this we decided to have our protagonist hold the camera so the audience have a point of view shot and eye line match of the protagonists.