CONSTRUCTION : Filming 2 - News Reporter

To start our film we decided that it would be best to open with a news report as it would set the narrative and provide enough information to grab the audience's attention without jumping straight into the action immediately.  This will help provide enough information for the film to make sense but isn't as simple as an exposition dump through a textual opening, such as Star Wars. 

We used a greenscreen to allow us to the edit the footage in post production and make it seem that this is an actual news report. Using the ultra key in Adobe Premier Pro we could cut the subject of the frame cleanly, allowing us to edit the background to look more like a newsplace. 

To make sure that the sound was as good as we could make it we utilised the external microphone available in the media room. This allowed us to capture the best sound we could and help the news report look more professional.

Another technique that we used was clapping before starting filming, so that way we could keep the camera on until we finally got the best shot for our film. The clap served as a marker for where each batch of filming started and ended, the clap showed as a very high frequency on the soundwaves, showing precisly where the clip starts and ends which we could then use in post productioon to cut the section we needed and delete the rest.

So we decided that we would do a news report to start the film, this would work as it would provide information to the viewer to help the short time we have to tell our story flow easier. The footage that we captured is shown below.

CONSTRUCTION : Filming 1 - Action Sequences

Members of the production team (and actors) met on 27th of October to start the first filming shoot. Discussions had taken place in class to determine what type of genre of film we wanted to make but no clear decisions had been made on the plot because it wasn't fully developed. The focus was on capturing general footage that suit the tropes of the genre we wanted to portray. 

This filming session was focused around filming the transitions that could be used to show the characters moving around the setting, allowing audiences to gain a glimpse of the characters and making sure that the transitions were clean, as well as work on the actual narrative for the story.  

An idea was to use light from the torches to cause over exposure to the camera and then when the camera's focus shifts it would reveal the characters. It was felt this would make for a more interesting introdcution to the characters rather than just straightforward static introduction. A great idea from the team on the day but unfortunately the light from the torches caused some shots to be dark and blurred and meant that the characters weren't perhaps revealed as well as they could have been. 

Overall the team took a lot of useable footage that can be used and incorportated into our final film.