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In my blog I have explained everything that I have learnt about my media thriller with background research to show that I have fully understood my opening sequence.

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Shoot Day

On our shoot day we had the perfect weather to shoot outside, as it was such a sunny day. I thought we were very lucky with the weather as we wouldn’t have been able to shoot at all. I really enjoyed our shoot day, as it was a completely new and different experience.

On our Shoot day we had to meet in the edit suite at 9am, once Luke and Matt had arrived we then were asked to show our storyboard so they could get an idea of what we wanted to film. Once our media teachers had talked it over with us to make sure that we were happy with what we wanted to achieve on the shoot day. We then wanted to make sure the dummy was correctly set up, as we didn’t want it to break on the first jump!

After we had our break we then met outside our location, as there was a high wall for us to throw the dummy off the roof. I chose this location because it had easy access and was in school so we didn’t have to waste time traveling. Because I wanted to film the non-revealing shots first I wanted to shoot mostly hero shots by tracking tilting and panning the camera. I asked my actor to stand up on the table so I could shoot upwards. I needed him to stand on the table so we didn’t have to shoot on the roof!

Once I had finished all of the non-revealing shots we then decided to film as much paper as possible so had a lot of choice to choose from. The reason why I wanted to film the falling stock Certificates so much is because we could then get a different shot of the same paper in the air. I wanted to film the paper falling, as it was a really good idea for the start of the film for the producer and the credits with the paper falling in the background.

After I had finished filming the paper falling I wanted to get the shots on the roof so you could se how high up he was. The reason I chose a high building to shoot from was that it creates a sense of fear of falling and hitting the ground. When we were on the roof I wanted to film all the different angles so we had as much choice as possible.

Once I finished filming the paper being thrown and the roof shots. I thought it was time to film the dummy being thrown off the roof! I set the camera up onto the tripod so I could pan down when the dummy was being thrown off the roof. I wanted to film my thriller in order so I could see how and what shots I needed when I was editing it.

On our shoot day I really enjoyed doing all of the camera work, as it was such a good experience to how I should shoot a film. It was really interesting to how I could film something that I would later edit on After Effects.

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