We used the same camera and tripod throughout the filming of our final task, that way we learnt how to use
it effectively and easily.
These are some pictures of the camera and tripod we used throughout our filming.
The use of this tripod has been of great use to us throughout our filming, it means that we can film steadily and accurately, as well as being able to experiment with angles by adjusting the tripod's height, making our filming a better quality. However, although we can use the tripod for filming angles and shots, it cannot be used for camera movement, where we had to use handheld, which made our filming shakier, however this was not always a disadvantage. When using handheld camera for certain parts of our filming, it created a sense of realism, that the audience is there with the character, it also makes the film quite disorientating which is a good effect to have as our film is supposed to be psychological, and therefore confusing the audience to add to the fear we are trying to invoke. Many other low budget films have used handheld camera to their advantage, for example Shifty, where they are being chased. This puts the audience in the centre of the action.
This is the camera that we used throughout our filming process, the advantages of using this camera is that it is light, and therefore easy to carry around. However, this particular camera did have a low battery life, which could have been a problem if we did lots of filming at one time, to overcome this problem, we made sure that the camera was fully charged before we took it with us to film.
Although we did not have any problems with our camera or tripod, we did have a problem whilst burning our film onto DVD, we had to be prepared for things to go wrong. The burner was not allowing us to take our film off of the mac, we used other technology such as the portable hardrive to move our film around, but this did not help, hopefully we will be able to burn our film onto DVD as soon as possible.
When editing our film we used a mac on which all of our work was saved, this meant that all of our work was easy to access and all kept in one place. After uploading our work onto the mac, we then used imovie to edit it. Through the use of imovie, we have been able to use specific editing techniques to add to our film and its overall effectivenss. An example of one of these effects is the jump shot, where we could jump quickly from one shot to the next, so that we could cut out uneeded clips that did not contribute to our overall piece. Other effects we have used were the transitions movements which we used instead of jump cuts, for example the start of the titles. However, there were also some disadvantages of using imovie, for example when dragging clips into the correct places, other clips are often picked up alongside it so you have two clips you are holding, so you have to be specific with the clips you want to move so that only the correct clips are moved.
When putting certain images onto my blog, for example our hand drawn storyboards, we had to use a scanner, to scan the images onto the computer, where they could be saved and then uploaded onto our blogs.
Throughout our filming process we took many photos and stills to add to our blog through the use of a digital camera. We each had our own camera to take different pictures which we then uploaded onto our home computers and shared them with each other through the social networking site, facebook. This enabled us to share our photos with the other members of our group.
We used a firewire cable to attatch our camera to the mac, to make uploading our footage quick and easy.
When researching other film openings i used the website artofthetitle.com as well as youtube, so that I could copy the video clips onto my blog. We also used youtbue to find the music that we used as our incidental music in our final task.
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