Post Filmimg

Filming was completed fairly succesfully and we overcame any problems which occured during the filmimng process. There are a few errors in our film, most of which can be addressed in the editing process however there are a few continuity errors which will bring the overall realism and effect of the film down. The sound will need to be heavily edtited as there is alot of background noise and some of the dialogue cannot be heard clearly which means that we may need to re-record it and sub it over the footage. One of the most successful aspects of our filming was the lighting which is good all the way, we found this to be an advantage of filmimng outside as opposed to inside as we had the benefit of natural light. We used a variety of camera shots in order to make our film interesting and used alot of panning in order to show that we are capable of more complex filmimg techniques however we avoided using moving shots in order to eliminate the possibility of jerky camera movements and losing the frame, although this did occur occasionally during filming.

First Preliminary Film

The scene which have decided to shoot involves a drug trade, although it is humourous as we are actually using polos. In our scene we are planning to use a number of different camera camera shots:
Shot 1: Mid Shot
Shot 2: Mid Shot
Shot 3 :Long Shot (establishing)
Shot 4: Long Shot (pans)
Shot 5: Over the Shoulder
Shot 6: Reverse of shot 5
Shot 7: Close Up (showing exchange)
Shot 8: Mid Shot
Shot 9: Low Angle Mid Shot
Shot 10: Mid Shot (pans)

 We decided that for a location we would use the school grounds as it is convenient for us to film here as there is lots of space to use. It will mostly be outside although the opening shots will involve the client coming through a door out of a building. We will use a few lines of dialogue which have been written by the group, these are:
Dealer: I'm over here.
Client: Have you it?
Dealer: Got some good stuff here.

We plan to film some shots from a different angle in order to give us more options during editing.

Unfortunately this film did not meet the criteria and therefore we have filmed a new preliminary.

Experimental Footage

I feel that the experimental footage we shot for our preliminary film work was very successful and enabled us to learn about what problems can occur during filming and how to over come these problems. We discovered about how the distance of a shot affects the narrative of a piece of film and learnt how to communicate different emotions using shot distance. We also discovered the problems that can occur when filming moving shots such as jerky camera movements and losing the actors face when moving the camera. We overcame this by using panning shots rather than tracking shots in order to keep the camera steady and the actors in shot. We shot some experimental dialogue using over the shoulder camera shots however I believe we need to become more confident in using more adventurous shot types when filming dialogue. We became able to plan and set up a shot effectively and learnt to rehearse the shots before filming in order to get the best possible footage. We also discovered the benefits of shooting a scene from several positions in order to give us more options when editing our footage.