More Shooting

HI blog...

For the last couple of lessons we have been trying to get all of the filming done. Last friday we went to Beth's house to film the interior shots of Naomi with the letter. This was a little bit difficult, as we couldnt get the lighting to exactly how we wanted it. To acheive the blurred light effect we used candles, and filmed some shots of the flame out of focus. We felt these shots looked effective and plan to use them in our final edit.
On the following Tuesday, we went to town to re-shoot naomi on the bench in a busy setting. We decided to film it again because when we were taking stills in town we found another bench in a better setting, where people wouldnt be walking in front of the camera. This would help with the look that we are trying to acheive, of Naomi still and everyone moving fastly around her, by speeding up the shot. We had some difficulties editing the people out of the shot last week, but it was too hard to do.
On tuesday we also managed to get some whip pans of fast cars. First we tried using a whip pan shot, but felt it wasnt right for the effect we are trying to get. So instead we filmed the cars going past with the camera still on the tripod, and will edit it to speed it up in the next lesson to see if it is the type of shot we want.
Today we are going to get a few close up's of the letter to add to the film for some more shot types, and try to get some more whip pans of the cars, but in a different location to see which shots look better.

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