Skills Audit: Filming

To start filming we gathered all the equipment needed, this included the film camera, the tripod and memory card mostly important, we had pre arranged the location where we were going to film our clip, in Springfield Park. Springfield Park was a perfect location, as it seems vacant and lonely, after setting up the equipment we headed towards the diner where we would film the start of the scene.

We had to ask for permission to film in the diner, and after buying some snacks we were granted a limited amount of time to get the shots we needed, this was quickly done as we worked hard an efficiently taking various shots so that our clip could have different angles of parts of the scene at our disposal. A combination of teamwork allowed and positive thinking let us grab essential shots such as establishing shots of both the park and outside the café, close ups of important things needed in the scene for example the fire place.

Our thriller named ‘Undiscovered’ was looking a prospect, the lighting on the day was perfect and the atmosphere was not glum but positively light, this was vital as a slight less required amount of light and the shot quality would plummet. During the opening part of the scene we had to take notice of the 180 degree rule, we did not break this which made it better in many ways, also by keeping all surroundings the same we where able to make the clip professional looking. The shots we took had to be at the actor’s height to add a sense of being involved so the audience could relate to the clip putting them at the edge of their seats.

After all the shots were taken in the diner we took our equipment outside, we were to take shots of the antagonist sitting on the bench, this was quick and again various angles where taken, finally we had to take shots of the protagonist, she was taken walking a dog, seeing that the dog was an unreliable source to film we spent a lot of time getting this piece of footage. In the end we were successfully able to get all the shots we needed then when we were satisfied we packed up all the equipment and returned it.