Camera and Editing workshop 2

 As a group of 4 on Monday 28th feb we shot a shot and edited dialogue sequence to get to grips with the whole filming aspect as well as the editing in preparation for our actual shoot.

Through out the whole hour we were shooting we were constantly making sure that there was consistent continuity through out the sequence, to ensure a fluent final cut and an easier job when we got onto editing it. The previous camera workshop severely helped with this process, for example knowing how to lower and raise the tri pod and also how to bubble it. These really helped with the ease of the filming process with not faffing around trying to find out what to do, but to just get on with it. We made sure that we stayed within the 180 degrees rule and to film the whole sequence through different camera angles. 

We got introduced to an external shot gun mic which we used to capture the sequences audio. This is a mic that only pics up sound waves that are strait in front of it. This allows you to capture only the sound you want and wont pick up sounds behind and to the sides as easy.

When we were trying to shoot a tracking shot we kept coming across the problem of cutting Elias' head out of the shot, we solved this by having Elias walk in exactly the same place each time using some makers on the floor, this made it so much easier for me to execute the tracking shot when the same thing was being taken each take. 

After reviewing the rushes we decided that for next time we would definitely make sure that we had continuity within the audio as well, not just the acting, because it lead to not being able to switch to a certain camera angle in editing when we would have liked to have done.

We then went into the editing suite above the studio and edited our shoot. 

We first looked back at all of the rushes from the shoot and reviewed back and looked which ones went well and not so well. We then dropped the first shot we wanted in the edit (the wide shot) in..... after editing all of the clips together we discovered that when the clips cut to one another the sound changed to a different "buzz". So we were taught how to use audio transitions for sound, to smooth out the audio when cutting between shots.

Everything in our shoot went well apart from the whole audio continuity issue, which made it so we could use or cut to certain parts of footage when we would have liked to. On our actual shoot day we will have to definitely make sure check that we are repeating the same actions and audio sequences to help keep continuity throughout.