Group: Third Film Shoot - Update 15-11-13

CC: Today myself and Liam went back to Southborough woods. We filmed some more woodland footage, for example popping balloons, and we experimented with high angle shots with Liam on a rope swing. We did like this angle, however it was not smoothly filmed. If we were to film this again we would use a steady-cam as this will produce smoother shots.

We filmed shots of balloons in front of my face and popping them, however this did not turn out very well due to me flinching as it popped. The final shots we took were worm eye shots of balloons and myself standing in the foreground. We did like this shot, however it was hard to fit both the balloons and all of myself into one shot.



Liam using the rope swing while filming

LB: Today me and Chris returned to the woods to film more footage, the weather was great and just what we wanted however we had very limited time and footage space so did not film as much as we wanted. To start off we had bought party poppers and balloons to keep our conceptual and bright feel to the video.
We did not have a call sheet or shot list for the shoot as we had decided to film because of the nice weather.

When we were there, we decided to film on what we thought would look nice, Chris and I decided that if I filmed on top of a rope swing we may have got a nice angle for a few shots. When we filmed this we thought it looked nice, however since we have reviewed the footage, it was not as effective as we first thought, but we like the angle and the movement as it breaks it up against the other still shots we have.

Footage from rope swing.

As well as this we tried filming different ranges like close-ups and long shots, as so far we believe we have lots of mid-shots. We also tried filming shots at low-angles, we tried filming a worms-eye shot which turned out fine. We also filmed various shots from different angles which we can use parts of as quick cuts, however we know we still have to film more in the woods with other characters.

JP: Yesterday, I filmed for about 2 hours in the woods for filler and projection shots but I was unable to shoot today with Chris and Liam as they were shooting in frees. However I did get to look through some of the footage from today. While it was not as successful as we had hoped, it has given us an idea of what we will need to re-film and what additional shots we can film next time.