Before starting the shooting I spoke to a couple of people I know to have done film before and asked them for any tips. I also went online and had a look at what suggestions other photographers have made when shooting. Advice like try to film at the same level so there is a consistency throughout, make sure you repeat each scene until you are 99.9% happy with it, try new and different angles and have a look at buying a steadicam. I looked at what they were online and decided to purchase one to aid me whilst filming. When it arrived I was very impressed and when I tried it at home it seemed to do the job of holding the camera still enough while I was moving around so £16 well spent.
Shoot number 1...
I have filmed the clips for my first shoot and I am not very happy with the outcome at all. I started by doing a practice shoot to the park walking and I didn't feel I was walking fast, I thought it was a good pace. When I uploaded it, it looked like I had held the camera in front of my face while running. I thought I would give it another go but going slightly slower. This time I took my model and a second model with me. I was using a second model as a parent so to push my model on the swing and help her on the park and with the hand shot at the end of the video. I took my time to walk slower but it just did't work again. It might have been how I was holding it but I wasn't going to waste valuable time trying to figure something out that I probably wouldn't be able to work out. I carried on with the shoot at the park and it seemed to go well. I had picked the worst time of day to do the shoot though as the sun was starting to set so there were very long shadows stretching across the floor and there were only certain angles I could shoot from without the glare of the sun. As it was my test shoot I wasn't overly concerned as you would still be able to see how the video went together in every other way.
As I carried on I started to pick up on other issues which were bothering me. One was my model, I couldn't control her on the park as she was so excited to go (what 5 year old wouldn't be) so what I wanted her to do she wouldn't and she also wouldn't listen to my other model either. I also noticed that there were a lot of children on the teenager side to the park with the skate ramps but none in the section we were in. That wasn't very helpful as I couldn't test my scene with everyone gradually going. A second thing I had no control over was the weather, I would have to shoot at the same time so it would look the same and would match up properly but with the British weather being as unpredictable as it is, I would struggle in the filming time I had set myself.
When we returned home I set about putting a trial run together on the laptop but found I wasn't very happy with my video at all and no amount of editing was going to save it or help.
With that in mind I decided I would have to go back to the drawing board and start looking at a different storyline...
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