Location: Sophie's House
Today's aim was to film all the flashback scenes with Emily and Joe as well as the audio scene before the song starts.
Using New Techniques
Seen as this is an advanced portfolio, we were thinking of ways to demonstrate that we can work at a higher level than we did at AS. We came up with the idea of using 2 cameras; by doing this we could film one scene from two angles, and then edit them together so the continuity will be perfect. We thought that this might be tricky to edit, but decided to give it a go.
It worked well, the only difficulty was positioning it so that the other camera was not in shot. It often took us a while to make sure that the framing of both shots was correct, and that no other camera could be seen. We will not know how successfully this idea will be until we begin editing this particular section, but we are hoping that it will create a smooth look to the video which looks more proffesional then us simply re-enacting the same scene twice but from different angles.
Flashback Shots
Here are some photographs are the flashback images we film, they show the type of angles and locations that we chose for each particular shot.
My Favourite Shot of the Day!
Today my favourite shot when filming was the one where Emily puts her suitcase in the car. Charlotte thought of it, and it consisted of us filming Emily putting the suitcase into the car from the inside of it. To do this, we had to unattach it from the tripod and sit inside the car and hold the camera free hand. At first, we had trouble framing Emily in this shot, but after a few attempts we managed to obtain a succesful shot.
How did the filming go overall?
Today I felt the filming went okay. Lately the group are feeling very time-pressured as we are all keen to make the first-cut deadline after half term; I do believe that we will achieve this, but due to certain time constraints of our actors it seems as though we never have time to relax and shoot things at a slow pace. This does worry me somewhat as it makes me think that our shots may reflect how rushed we sometimes find ourselves, and today we did have to take some of them free-hand purely because we did not have time to constantly adjust the tri-pod as Joe needed to be somewhere at a certain time. Saying this, I do feel that it went well; we managed to obtain most of the shots that we wanted (plus a few more which we thought of during filming) and hopefully they will all be to a good a standard.
The 5 most effective shots of the day:
1. The shot from inside the car of emily opening the boot.
2. The birds-eye shot of Emily and Joe fighting.
3. The long shot of the them both pushing past eachother in the hall-way.
4. Joe's reaction shot when Emily leaves in her car.
5. The long shot of Emily driving away in her car (two-angle effect).
5 things we could have done better:
1. We could have obtained more extreme close ups to create a stronger sense of action.
2. We could have tried to find a source of light to shine on our actors as it was often dark in the house.
3. We could have obtained more location shots to make the story seem more personal.
4. We could have filmed a longer series of shots in terms of the flashbacks (most of them were only a few seconds and I'm not sure they will be enough).
5. We should have planned the reverse-play scene better to ensure that it looked as effective as possible.
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