Out of a 3-hour session, filming 'Solo' took approximately 2 hours. Our group was very unfortunate as our location had frequently been altered from a residential car park in Kings Cross, to N1 centre car park. After arriving at the N1 centre car park, we had to refer to our storyboard another of times as our ideas had to also be changed due to the change of location. When we finally drew u storyboard, it was decided to start with an outside location, yet as we were limited to an underground location, it would have been practically difficult to change scenes. In the end, we stayed in the same car park, but used different corners.
Though coming up and producing the storyboard is not very challenging, acting and filming it out askes for much more. Difficulties with handling the camera and using different camera shots limited us to how we could explore with our filming. To make the division of filming fair, whilst the actors were not needed to be in the shots, for example in the establishing shot, actors would film.
Over time, filming began to get stressful as we had started from the morning; each shot was repeated more than once and most times, the position of the camera was different from the previous one or, continuity had not been fulfilled.
After thinking we had finished filming on one day, we realised that we had necessary shots missing so another filming day was needed. Also, when we first started filming, we did not have all props at hand, for example the timer. Luckily, the shots that were needed with the alarm clock were able to get edited into our final title sequence. Also, as using 'FinalEdit' can be quiet difficult, we assumed that our clip had not even reached '01:30' when infact, it had exceeded 2 minutes. WE PANICKED! Therefore, we came up with a brainstorm of how we could extend our clips; from longer titles to clips in slow-motion the sequence would still not extend.
Randomly, I clarified with a media technician that I was reading 3 minutes something and now 1 minute, 3 seconds. After realizing what point I was adressing to, he higlighted that our clip was over 3 minutes and that it had to be edited down - of course, another 30 minute was spent on doing this.
The experience of filming with my group was enjoyable; especially as I have not done this before, but to explain in words to an individual who has not done media before is hard; it takes a lot of dedication and team work in order to produce a piece of work that is exceptionally good.
Though coming up and producing the storyboard is not very challenging, acting and filming it out askes for much more. Difficulties with handling the camera and using different camera shots limited us to how we could explore with our filming. To make the division of filming fair, whilst the actors were not needed to be in the shots, for example in the establishing shot, actors would film.
Over time, filming began to get stressful as we had started from the morning; each shot was repeated more than once and most times, the position of the camera was different from the previous one or, continuity had not been fulfilled.
After thinking we had finished filming on one day, we realised that we had necessary shots missing so another filming day was needed. Also, when we first started filming, we did not have all props at hand, for example the timer. Luckily, the shots that were needed with the alarm clock were able to get edited into our final title sequence. Also, as using 'FinalEdit' can be quiet difficult, we assumed that our clip had not even reached '01:30' when infact, it had exceeded 2 minutes. WE PANICKED! Therefore, we came up with a brainstorm of how we could extend our clips; from longer titles to clips in slow-motion the sequence would still not extend.
Randomly, I clarified with a media technician that I was reading 3 minutes something and now 1 minute, 3 seconds. After realizing what point I was adressing to, he higlighted that our clip was over 3 minutes and that it had to be edited down - of course, another 30 minute was spent on doing this.
The experience of filming with my group was enjoyable; especially as I have not done this before, but to explain in words to an individual who has not done media before is hard; it takes a lot of dedication and team work in order to produce a piece of work that is exceptionally good.
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