First filming lesson

In todays lesson we made a lot of progress. We looked at our storyboards to refresh what we were doing last lesson. We then began talking about which location to shoot the section we were fliming in. We looked around college and found a good place with enough lighting and space. We then began to run through what we had on our storyboard without filming it, so we did not waste the space on the tape. This took us a while whilst we were trying to figure out what we were definitly going to say as it had slightly changed now we had come to act it out properly. We sorted all of it out eventually and decided where the camera was going to be placed and what types of camera angles we were going to use. We then filmed the first shot, with me and Danny acting and Tom fliming with the tripod and camera. We filmed the first shot of me walking into the door twice to make sure that we had enough footage to delete and edit. We then filmed the second shot on the reverse side of the door. This took us a long time as we could not get the timing right so that we could cut it to make it look like one continuous flow, however we did it eventually. We then started to film the shot that danny was in. However, the two boys then decided to swap roles as it was not working well. So we then had to film a small part again as there was a shot with me and danny in that we had to re-do with me and Tom in. That all went well and we again did two shots of each. The male teacher then came to check on us. He gave us some good feedback and told us what we could do to make the shot reverse shot quicker to shoot. We took this onboard and it helped a lot. We then looked back over what we had filmed on the small screen on the camera. It all looked really good and the five seconds before and after recording each shot were there so that we could edit it accordingly. Next lesson we will edit what we have filmed on premier.