Filming Process

We have now filmed our piece, and have got the footage that we think we need to be able to create the best piece we can. I filmed a good amount of the work and throughout the day gave my own opinions on things we should improve and work on, to get the best possible outcome we could. Amazon and Ben equally did the same amount of work, we all put in our own ideas to get the best overall to be able to get the footage we intended to.

Difficulties:
We found it difficult to get the horizon line straight on the day because the ground wasn't flat, making the tripod wonky and uneven. Another problem was using an animal for our first production, the dog (Meg) was good but had a tendency not to do the things the way we wanted, but we had to work with what we had and not worry. Another problem was that we only had one day to shoot all of the footage that we needed, therefor being no room to make mistakes and we could only film a few takes of each sequence because we were conscious of loosing the natural light of the day.

Adaption:
We managed to keep our footage similar to the storyboard, not changing much however we have changed it from our very original plan, as we excluded the background story of the murderer, where there was a scene where we wanted Thomas to find a newspaper with the murder stories over the front,  so it gave the audience something to be anxious about, with regards to the boy, however we decided that all the covers we came up with looked tacky and cheap so we decided it would be best to leave this out. Something that we found we had lost in footage when moving our film across to the computer was the opening sequence of the surrounding area, which we regret not re-doing, however we have a few seconds worth the same at the beginning of one of our takes.

Shots:
We used different shots for our sequence to add different point of views and interest for the audience. We used an establishing shot, for the first sequence of Thomas and the track, we then used a long shot to capture the distance he had travelled. For parts of the track and following Thomas and Meg we used a zoom for different sections. For the part where Thomas finds the collar and lead we used a close up shot then zoomed out to give the overall perspective of the scene and to show the murder while he's in shot. We found them relatively easy to film however we struggled with keeping the zoom going in and out at a steady pace, but we re did certain shots to maintain a good end piece.