Our Prelim Project, Filming

The start of our prelim project was interesting. I was gave the role of the director or I choose the role of the director. I like to be in control and know what is all going on when it comes to filming a sequence. 

• Libby (Camera Man)
• Imogen (Actor)
• Georgina (Actor)
• George (Actor)
• Kai (Director)

Libby and I, as we were behind the camera and in charge of keeping the camera at the right shots and getting everything we needed to get. We found it was difficult to get our filming 'monologues' as you could call that, but we soon knew our roles and what we needed to say, which I will discuss further down. It was hard with the actors at times because of the weather outside. When we as a group got a shot wrong, or lines were forgotten the actor found it hard to got outside again. But this I suppose is something that is normal to occur.

Our idea was mostly to have the actress (Imogen) come in and devote her love to the person in the room (Georgina). It was easy on dialogue so it was not so difficult to shoot every shot the whole way through every time. 

With every shot we were needing to capture, instead of just getting a small clip of every shot that we needed, we filmed the whole scene every time for each angle. This made so much more sense when you needed to see that angle multiple time during the whole sequence, meaning you would have it in one time. This will make the next part of the process, the editing much easier for us, this will help the clips run much more smoothly together. 

During this lesson I also learned some new sayings to actually help the whole filming process:


Stand by : the director is asking everyone if they are ready to shoot, if the whole set are ready for the word go.

Standing by: This notifies the director that everyone is ready to start shooting

Roll Camera: The director gives the instruction that they camera has to start recording with his/her knowledge that everyone is ready to film the scene.

Camera Rolling: This means the Camera Man/Woman has pressed the recording button for the take to begin. 

Action: The director calls this out when he knows the camera is rolling, this alerts everyone that is working on the scene that they can begin. Also alerts everyone to be quiet. 


The Sequence Plan ...

 
















We changed the total dialogue of the scene. This was slightly dangerous because it could confuse us when it came to keeping the new shots. There was closeup shots, were at times were difficult  with the actors sometimes getting there heads cut or possibly being covered by the other one, or just moving themselves out of shot. 

 

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