During the lesson today (period 2) we filmed the card tricks we play to use in the Title sequence. We filmed it in the joining doors between Drama and Music. Although the area didn’t have a black background, we were able to make the room dark enough to light it properly, and then framed the shots to get as little of the white walls in as possible. We did have trouble controlling the extraneous sound levels as we were just outside a working Music studio, however we were able to block out most of the noise. We did get interrupted many times with people walking through the doors (a side effect of our location), but it did not disturb the filming process enough for us not to get the shots we want.
After school, we were filming in the drama studio with the full cast. A main problem was, with a larger cast of friends, everyone wanted to talk, thus we took a long time. The character Leo was also cut as the actor playing him was, at the last minute, unfortunately not available to film. As Leo is a minor character we were able to cut him with minimum disruption. If fact, during filming we found that this was for the best as we could only fit five people comfortably around the table we used (compared to the six that there would have been). As we had to film everyone, the process of lighting and shooting everything took even longer than just with Matt and Jack. However, everything went according to plan. We did film a tracking shot around the table, which proved challenging as we still had to light the shots and thus had the cameraman’s shadow falling across the table at points. We had to film this shot in steady cam style as we could not find a dolly or a trolley to make a make shift tracking system. Running around the table also proved to be dizzying and disorientating and probably created a wobbly shot.
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