It's our second lesson of filming today and seeing as we have film half of our media product already; we debated over wether or not to film the other half or begin doing the stop motion credits. If we did do the stop motion credits it wouldn't leave enough time to film the other half of our media product, but it would add to the effect of our film. However because we needed to film the other half, as it was the opening part of our film, we decided to film today and if we had time time left over, quickly do some stop motion credits.
After this we gathered our equipment, so the camera and tripod and went to find a classroom preferably in the G block, which is where our media classroom is; as well as we didn't want to go all over campus looking for a classroom to film in.
We found a room to film in on the top floor at the back. It was ideal as it was empty and had a horseshoe table layout facing the whiteboard at the front. We set up the camera and then positioned Fleur (our main character) on a table in the middle of the horseshoe it also was directly opposite the board which helped with the Gaussian Blur effect we included when editing the film as it helped with the effect of making the character seem tired and portrayed that she wasn't focusing on what was around her. This would effect the viewer as it would make them focus on what was going to happen to the main character after she fell asleep. A screen grab of the Gaussian effect taken from our media product is shown:
Deciding what shots to film when we got to the classroom was tricky as we needed to show what chloe was doodling. This brought an over the shoulder shot to play so we experimented with different angles shot from different sides of the main character. An example of these are shown below:
We also wanted to show she was in a classroom so we needed to include so mid shots of the main character. These shots would establish where she is at that point in time and what she is doing, this would help the viewer understand what the voice over is talking about. However, we didnt have any extras to help film the entire classroom and so we had to make the classroom seem like there was by only shooting at a certain angle; to do this we had to improvise by spreading notebooks, pencil cases and anything school like we could find/ had on hand, to make it seem she was working with people around her. An example of this is below:
We kept the camera at this angle to help to make the transition from this scene to the next smooth when editing; However we needed to shoot an extreme close up of 'Fleur'. We did this by zooming into her face as she pretended to sleep:
As you can see we needed to insert the fade because in the next scene she's laying down, as shown below:
The fade we inserted when editing helped distort the picture so that it made it look as though she had actually been transported which helped alot in the finished product.
We managed to finish the filming with a wide range of camera angles that we uploaded onto the Apple Mac's once we had finished in the classroom. When we had uploaded them we watched them back to make sure we hadn't missed any shots out or whether we needed to go back to include somemore. I thought the shots where good and varied and when we begin to edit them next week they should fit the storyline well as well as match the voice over.
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