These are some screenshots that I took from my footage of scene 1 part 2 and scene 4 in the industrial unit up at Woods Browning, which I made to look like a blank empty warehouse type space. I used two cameras in the end but I only used them both at rare times, I really only used two because one had more of a wide angle lens, while one had one that was easier to zoom with, so I could tightly frame some shots. Although using two camera was good to create continuity, I couldn't help but think it wasn't entirely necessary, I could have just brought two different lenses with me. I used my own camera, and also the camera from my media department, which isn't as good as mine, but you barely notice the slight lack of quality. I used two very basic tripods, and if the photography department hadn't been locked up then I would have used the tripod on wheels so that I could smoothly pan and use camera movement in a fluid motion.
This footage isn't exactly how I want it to be in the final edit, so I will brightly colour it and add a bleach bypass effect to really make it seem like a dream/heaven. I lit this scene using a key lighting effect, with one light high up looking down which casts a warm tone onto the actors. Unfortunately there was lots of light being let into the building due to very large skylights on the roof of the space, so the lighting that I set up wasn't as effective as I would have wished. Although with some decent post production editing I know that this wont matter too much because the lights coming off the actor's faces will be able to seem very light and washed out with a simple effect added in Final Cut Pro, After Effects or Final Cut Studio's Color. Even though the setting that I was filming in had too much natural light that I couldn't shut off, I knew that this scene could still look good if I tried. The filming went smoothly, and after having a few run throughs and takes, I felt that I had enough footage to play with. I used a TASCAM BB800 connected via XLR cable to a Rode NTG-2 shotgun microphone on a boom pole to record the sound for this film, which meant I also had to monitor the sound levels as well as do all the actual filming. Luckily I had my dad there to hold the boom pole, so that I could set the sound levels, focus the cameras, click record on the sound, click record on the video and then monitor the audio via headphones while the cameras were rolling. Although a lot to think about, the quality of the sound produced was worth the effort and extra equipment, although I will still have to put the audio and video in sync during the editing process, which could also be another time consuming process.
