First Lesson Filming

HI blog...

Last lesson we went to town and filmed the first shots of our opening. We decided to use a bench in piccadilly gardens as the setting, because it was busy and that is the kind of location we wanted. We managed to get the opening extreme long shot of Niaomi sat on her own on the bench, surrounded by people. As we filmed this we came up with an idea to speed this shot up when editing, to create the effect of Niaomi being still and everyone else moving quickly around her. As well as this, we also got some close ups, extreme close ups and high angle shots. We also used zoom effectivley when zooming in to the letter Niaomi was holding, as the name on the paper came slowly into focus as it got closer.
As we were filming, we came up with the idea of using fast and slow motion together in some of the shots, to add to the sense of confusion along with the out of focus shots. Next lesson we will experiment to see how it looks.

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