Filming and Editing Update 2

Day 2 of filming was on Monday, we organised the next location a while in advance for the victims house scene, it was a good location for filming but the lighting was not as good as we hoped, as we wanted the lighting to be very high key throughout the house to contrast with the darkness of the other character and his environment. We overcame this by bringing in a new source of light, from a lamp, into the darker scenes such as the kitchen. It worked well but meant we needed to take precautions like watching that the shadows aren't seen on camera, and that we keep it consistent for shots in the same rooms. never the less it was a good scene for a home atmosphere and accommodated all of the shots we needed for the opening.

We followed the storyboard to know the general shots we needed to film and what we wanted to get, we tried lots of different ideas with camera position and scene management, taking our time to find what works well and what could be done better in our environment. After the filming we were happy with what we had but still needed one of the most important shots, which was shots close-up from the camera mounted on the front of the bike. We will capture this and possibly recapture any footage that we aren't completely satisfied with in the next and final filming session.

In class we had plenty of footage to use for editing into the final product, this was our first big start into editing the opening, the first big step was to get all of the components we are going to use in the opening and discard the other clips. This is done to reduce the amount of clutter and footage to go through in editing and means that only the best clips are used, once they had been selected we started laying them all down in the video editing program, we could trim the footage down to how long we wanted each shot as well as how to piece the shots together with transitions. basically all of the visuals and sounds are coming together and just need arranging.