Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Filming Reflections

When we started to film we only took 1 camera out with us because we thought this would be a good idea but as we discovered when we started to film this wasn't. With 3 people in our group, we had me performing and Libby filming with James not really having a lot to do so to solve this we decided to bring another camera with us on our next shoot. This way we could get a perspective from 2 different angles at one time and this would hopefully save us some time alongside giving us some more interesting shots. 

We also decided that for our genre we didn't want to use a tripod as this took away the authenticity of our shots and would make them look overproduced. We wanted our shots to wobble and to look as though someone was just filming freehand. However, we only discovered this the second time when we shot some material for our music video as when we watched the footage back it looked too stiff. To solve this we decided that we would just film holding the cameras and not use any tripods but this meant sometimes we had to hold the camera still and not let it wobble lots as this then doesn't look good when editing.