Production Day 2

Production of Elements has now been completed. The second shoot has been completed with Jess' character: Scarlett. Below is some shots of the opening in production.

During the production, my role as director was to make sure that Jess knows what to do during each shot. Below a shot of the beach telling how to act during the next scene. Copies of the script and story board we're taken to make sure we had the complete amount of footage we needed/

Below we see a back tracking shot with, as the camera  follows the character of Jess as she walks foward. We got this shot tracking from both the front and the back, so we had a variety

of shots to choose from.

Here we see a high angle shot, looking down on Jess' character, we had to use a tripod, but as it was not big enough to get high enough, we both held it, to make sure the shot was stable and looked smooth when we edit it.

During this production day we got everything that we needed to complete the opening of our film. After this we will start on the editing of the piece, once we have impoted everything off the camera (and made back copies of the footage.)

Production Day 1

Production for Elements has now been started. The first shoot for both Effie's and Zoe's parts have been completed. Below is some shots of the opening in production.

However, due to business in the town center and music being played, we had to move the meeting place to them meeting on a bridge rather than them meeting by a cafe - as this was a quiter place to film - so sound quality would be better.

Because of this we had to change the narrative slightly, to make the charecter of 'Flo' control the water under the bridge, rather than the water being controlled in the cafe. Overall the filming went well and we managed to get most of the shots that we needed.

During this scene, we used both the tri-pod and hand held shots to get the feel we wanted for the scene, the shots from the arcade came out really well. We tried to stick to the storyboard to make sure we had all the footage we needed, however we also tried a variety of different shots, which may look better in the edit or we could use to fill in any gaps that came up.

As well as the scenes with Effie we also got some establishing shots, for the begging of each scene. For the very first establishing shot, we needed to shoot the whole of Bournemouth, Joe found a good location for this, on top of primark, which gives a great high shot of the town.

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