PLANNING - Change of location

We have decided as a group to change the location for the bus stop we will be filming at. Instead of using the one by Southbank, we want to use one in Islington named 'Friend Street'. It is much bigger and has more space around for us to film in. Also, it doesn't get very busy as only one bus stops at it.

This is what it looks like...

PLANNING - Practice shots(for tracking)

We thought it would be a good idea to practice filming tracking shots as some of us in the group haven't done it before. Doing it gave us a rough idea of where to stand and move while filming to get the desired frame.

 

 In this attempt, it started good but as the person filming started walking back the artist caught up too quickly and the framing went wrong as he got too close and it was turning more into a close up/medium close up rather than a mid shot.

 

 To see if we could avoid this happening we tried again by standing a bit further away. We found that this worked better as we were able to keep the same distance for more than a few seconds.

Here we attempted capturing a mid tracking shot from the back. We found that at the start we were too close to the artist however after 2-3 seconds we preferred the framing(slightly further away)

PLANNING - Practice shots(for still filming/bus stop location)

We went out and did some practice filming to ensure our artist felt comfortable in front of the camera and also to get an idea of how some of our shots may look. Doing this allowed for us to notice any easily made mistake so we don't mess up in the real thing

After watching back our first attempt we realised we weren't happy with the framing. We should have placed the camera differently so we didn't get in the side of the bus stop as it creates the illusion of an off centre frame. Also, we should have used a tripod for this part of filming

We tried this as development of the first attempt. We cropped out the side of the bus stop making it more of a mid shot. Due to the fact we weren't using a tripod the filming is a bit shakey and we don't want this for this base track. Also, the framing is slightly bent to one side. This is something we will be keeping an eye on to avoid in the future

We tried this angle out to see if we liked it not for a base track but for a single shot. We were quite pleased with this appearence and may use it in the real thing

In our storyboard and animatic we have a side profile view of the artist at the bus stop so we wanted to try it out to see how it looks and if we like it. This one is from a slight angle and we weren't 100% with it

Instead we tried it from a direct side view. We were worried that we would be seen in the reflection of the glass however this didn't seem to be much of a problem