Experimentation + Daily Blogs

Experimentation

ISO Camera 

In the environment I was filming in It was darker than I expected it to be. This meant I needed to experiment with the ISO settings on the camera. I had to put the ISO settings onto manual so that I could change and play about with the settings so I could get the lighting. 

Since it was dark in the location that I film at I need to change the ISO. So, what I decided to do was to turn up the ISO so that I could improve the lighting of the picture. 

But have it just light enough so that the characters still had that shady and suspicious edge onto themselves. The main reasons for this was so that the characters would be allowed some sort of mystery behind them. Another reason for changing the ISO to fit my image was to eliminate any other parts of the room not needed. As it would take attention off the main characters and draw the audience into looking at different things. 

Editing 

For my editing at the beginning of my film I originally had a wipe edit between the first two clips. I decided not to do that as when I watched it back the wipe did not look good within them clips so I decided to try and fit it elsewhere. 

So instead of a wipe edit I decided to put a Jump cut in between these clips. It looked a lot better as it had a positive effect on the audience. The jump cut I used made the audience feel suspense and tension.  I also decided to change the colour of the image for effect.

I decided to use long and short takes. This was effective in my editing experimentation as it helped me understand what I need to do next to make the movie look good. Then as another part of effect and experimentation I decided to flip the colourful image.

Daily blog 

Day 1 

·     Set up location and get used to surroundings.

·     Played around the camera and the ISO settings 

Day 2 

·     Set up location.

·     Got ready into locations 

·     Got all props and figures into place

·     Make- Up artist came into place.

·      I managed to shoot scene 1 and 2 

·     We took 5-6 hours making sure every shot was shot to a high quality 

Day 3 

·     Set- up location again

·     Got props into right place 

·     Filmed scenes 3 and 4. 

·     We took 8 hours on this scene as it was much longer than the first two scenes. To make sure the shots were of a high quality.