Prelim Part 1

Filming: My group were given a story board that we had to replicate. There were many different shots and angles of the scene such as long shot, close up etc. We had two actors, a director and a camera man (me). We used a black magic with a nikon lens and a tripod. The lighting was already perfect so there was no need for artificial lighting. 

To setup each shot, I zoomed in so I could focus more accurately, zoomed back out to the point where what I wanted was in frame and marked where the actors where standing to avoid continuity error. I would then wait for the director to say “Stand by” to double check that everything is in place before hitting record and then when I did record, I say back “rolling” to let the director know that the camera was recording. 

We did one take for each shot we did so that in the editing we could swap back and fourth if we needed to. The first shot we did, was the long shot. This is because it is the most important as if anything goes wrong half way through filming, you can rely on the long shot to tell the whole story rather than a close up with only one persons reactions etc.

I then moved on to a close up/ over the shoulder shot. As it is only on one person there would be sections where the actor wasn't saying his line. Instead of only filming each line at a time, we shot another whole take because it is quicker and it also means that if we feel that the actors reaction to the other was good, we could use that in the editing as well to make it more interesting. 


I also chose to do additional shots mid shot of the actor waking in the room from the outside, a low angle shot and an extreme close up.  I chose to do the mid shot to make the entrance more impacting for the audience. The low angle shot was to make one actor seem superior to the other by making him look big and intimidate the audience. I wanted an extreme close up of the eyes to enhance the characters emotions and to capture how he was feeling. 

Although the shoot went well, the most important thing I had learned from this was that time goes by very fast when your shooting and you don't have time to mess around.  

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