Last night me and Ken went into town with the XD cam with the 50mm lens adapter. The previous night I had used the HD cam which worked fine apart from it didn't have the depth of field that the 50mm lens has, making it more of a test run than potential footage. I had a good idea of the shots I wanted to shoot, which made the process a lot quicker. Ken shot all the scenes with instructions from me explaining what I wanted. It was a great help to have another person, not only for equipment transport, but for tips on composition, establishing shots, and getting the correct framing (rule of thirds etc).
The main plot scenes were fairly easy to film, although they had to be stationary shots to reduce the amount of tracking while compositing the Orb in After Effects.
We had to inform the police with the locations we were shooting as we were shooting in public places. We had reflective jackets so we had no trouble getting the shots we wanted. We also had to have transport to and from each location as the equipment was heavy and we were not allowed to take the camera outside of college without a form of transport, luckily my flat mate helped us out with that.
Most of the filming was done in the city center, but I felt I needed more shots to fill out the video. So I filmed a few shots on my street which were abstract enough to be incorporated into any part of the video.
These shots helped to break up the 'plot scenes' and to establish some of the shots. In the end we got the filming done in one night, which allowed me to move straight onto the editing.
This isnt really a critical studies type post. Make sure you get your notes scanned in and contact me in my comments box about your essay idea.
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