Practice Videos

In today's lesson i have started to use the video cameras to practise my shots. I have taken some videos of the locations i am going to use and a shot of the first scene in my trailer. I tried to get to grips with the camera i noticed that when i was filming that even on a glum dark day the camera made shots look really bright and this wouldn't suit my genre of music, i played around with the setting and noticed if i turned down the contrast onto soft and also put the sharpness onto soft this would help me achieve a dark and glum camera shot.

Here is the first scene in the trailer when the characters are introduced, the first video below is the practise video that we did to see how the shot would look and to see if it was right for the film, you can see that i walk down the stairs and past the camera, i did this so we could get an idea of how it would look and if the shot would be easy to re-produce.
The second video below is the proper video and the final shot we filmed to get this scene right, as you can see we have the main characters walking down the stairs with a couple of extras walking past. The characters are talking and the voices are clearly heard.

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Here is another practise shot of me walking up the stairs on my own from the previous shot and it will cut to this scene, you can see that the main character will always be in the middle of the screen and that you will be able to see expressions on the faces of the main girl.

The second "real" video is the proper video from the main trailer, you can see that the girl is on here own now, because the two male characters left her and you can see this from the shot above, there is a voice over added to this scene to make it more exciting to the audience and build up the suspense.

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