22/01/10

During this session myself and the rest of the group began to film our footage using the storyboard that we made in the previous sessions. We started recording the scene where Sophie is entering the room using only pan shots and tilts. The first shot we filmed was of Sophie walking towards the classroom and the camera following her using a pan shot. We placed the camera on a tripod so that the footage was steady and tilted it at a low angle so that you could only see below Sophie's waist. We then recorded the second scene which was Sophie walking towards the door with the camera facing her as she walked by it. This scene was slightly pix-elated on the camera and had to be re-filmed later on. The last shot of this scene was the tilt that we used at the end before Sophie had entered the room. We placed the camera on a tripod outside of the door, and tilted it upwards towards Sophie's face. We then recorded a close up shot of Sophie's hand pushing the door handle to be used as a cut before she enters the room.
Afterwards , we began recording the short clips of Josh in the classroom in front of the laptop so that they could be used as cuts during the extract. Our first shot was a tilt shot showing us Josh in front of his laptop smiling. We placed the camera on a tripod and tilted it downwards to reveal Josh sat down with his Laptop. We then moved on to recording the second scene of Josh from behind as he browses his laptop for valentines day ideas. We used a pan shot to go into an over the shoulder shot of Josh to view his laptops screen. Then, we used a zoom to get a close up of the screen and the text on it.
We moved onto recording the conversation between Sophie and Josh using over the shoulder and shot reverse shot. Firstly, we recorded Sophie entering the room and sitting down opposite Josh as she closes his laptop. The group decided that this scene would be best filmed in hand held to make it easier to track Sophie as she sits down. I tracked Sophie with the camera and followed her up to the point where she sits down with Josh. I then established a two shot with them both leaning in towards each other, as they spoke their lines. Afterwards, we recorded the conversation using over the shoulder shots from both point of views. We started with Sophie and recorded over her shoulder so that we were able to see Joshes reactions more clearly to what was being said. We then swapped to go to Josh's point of view instead and recorded over his shoulder this time. We were then told that we should use a close up on each of the characters faces during the conversation to see more emotion and reaction to what was being said. So, we started with filming Sophie's close up over Joshes shoulder. We zoomed in so that we could only see Sophie's face and expressions during the conversation, while we could still hear Josh talking to her. We swapped around again so this time we were recording Josh's close up in the conversation over Sophie's shoulder.
Having now finished recording all of our scenes, we were shown how to upload our video onto premier pro and where to save it and also how to select the scenes we wanted from the camera so that we were ready to edit next session.