Test Shoot

We decided to conduct a test shoot on one of the most important sequences within the short film. We knew that due to location and other factors surrounding that, that it would be quite difficult to get the shot of the sequence on point, so it was logical to just practice the camera angles and movements put on the storyboard and if they didn't work out we would find another way of filming the sequence to give the same effect. It is clear from the various attempts at this part of the sequence that there was an issue with the sunlight, beaming on the location chosen and it simply couldn't be avoided but left us with shots that we found were just not good enough. We wanted to use a tracking shot but with the lack of budget we didn't have high tech tripod equipment so we tried to use free hand which just simply didn't work and made the shots look messy and very amature. As we were doing this short film for experimental purposes, we continued to experiment with the different camera angles, shots and movements in order to get the intended effect that we wanted. We then decided to use the zoom which is an easy movement to use (with practice) and would avoid the jilted mess movement caused by the free-hand tracking. Although this was also a problem as although it did look good, this type of movement is more suitable for something like a social realism film and we didn't think it worked well as part of the sequence. As a result of this, we decided to cut this bit out and just film the character Adam walking past the bin as opposed to him walking from further back where the traffic lights were. It was good that we chose this particular sequence to use as our test shoot as we found out that there may be a problem with the weather (too windy). The wind seemed to blow away the £10 note, and in the long term run this would effect our editing of the tilt down to the £10 note with the close up. By the time we had done a tilt down shot of the £10 note and went on to take a close up of it the wind constantly kept blowing it away so we had to remember, that when we did actually shoot this sequence, that we would have to shoot it on a day where the weather is not too windy, interrupting the filming of our short film. The rest of the sequence test shoot would be a simple track, using the tripod and when we did test that it was quite good and we were happy with the outcome.