Filming preliminary task
We used our previously made storyboard to create our
shots. We used the media room, the hallway outside the media room and the stair
case eading up to the corridor. To film, we used a borrowed camera. We made
sure we had a variety of shots, including match on action, shot reverse shot,
180 degree rule, as well as long shot, close up, medium shot, hand held camera,
extreme close ups, over the shoulder shot, reaction shot, two shot and a high
angle shot. The first shot was a two shot of two of the girls (Kelsey and
Lauryn) in a conversation, sat facing eachother. This includes the 180 degree
rule, a two shot and a long shot. I feel that the lighting could be improved
and the dialogue is hard to hear, so a better quality camera would be
desirable. To improve the lighting, we could have put a brightening filter over
theshot in the editing stage, or made the room we filmed in lighter in the
actual filming stage.
When filming, we wanted to give the video some humour
and make it reasionably lighthearted, we decided to do a short part of it as
Mission Impossible themed. In this shot, the two girls run up the staircase at
the end of the corridor, and come down the corridor, doing ‘spy-like’ rolls on
the floor and making their hands in to gun shapes. We used a long shot of this
to see all of the action. I think to imporove this shot, we should make the
lighting more balanced, as changing lighting look svery unporoffesional. We had
some problems with the lighting whilst shooting, as the camera was picking up
the lighting to be a lot brighter than it actuslly was, so we pulled blinds
down to try and block out any external light. However, when we came to editing,
we noticed that the lighting was much too dark, and we could’ve down with the
blinds being open.
Another effective shot was this extreme close up shot
of Lauryn’s hand opening the door of the media room, this is a transition shot
in between the match on action of opening the door. Although the shot seems
insignificant it works very effectively in the video, as it’s a source of
building tension and it backs up the point of the girls being sneaky and
mysterious.
The purpose
of this shot was to see the girl rummaging through the school files, and then
pulling out the enemy girls’ files. She pulls out her medical records, which
state her allergies. We used an over the shoulder shot, so that we could see
the girl looking through the files, and the actual file itself. This also acts
as a point of view shot, so we can see what the girl sees. We felt that the
lighting in this shot is appropriate, and we wouldn’t have gone back and done
anything different to this shot.
We decided
to have a shot that used a hand held camera effect. We thought this was a good
way of creating a sense of urgency and makes an action scene much more
realistic. This shot also involves an over the shoulder shot, and point of view
shot. This makes the audience feel as though they are running with the girls,
trying to catch the enemy. If we could go back and change the shot, I would
slightly improve the lighting and made it brighter, as this makes the filming
environment seem more realistic.
Finally,
our very last shot involved the enemy girl (myself) sneezing due to her allergy
to oranges. We made this shot a high angle shot as it makes the girl seem
vulnerable and weak. It makes the other girls seem superior and makes it look
like the two girls one over the other girl with their revenge. I felt that the
lighting and brightness was sufficient in this shot and If I could go back and
change it, I would make the sneezing noise more realistic and turned the volume
down in the editing process. 
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