Filming Process

Filming Process

Before we started to film we had to go and learn how to edit using Macs on a school day. It was hard but fun because we had to edit a video given to us and then edit a video we recorded called ‘The Dream.’ We worked in groups of three to record the shop scenario given to us. We had to add sound tracks on the videos and titles before showing it to the rest of the class. After that course we went home w with the camera and the equipment given to us and looked over the storyboard we drew up for our animatic. We started recording Friday night at my house with the help of our families and friends. When we finished the house scene we went to the Monument the next day which was a Saturday and recorded the staircase scene. It was a challenging because it was a long way from the area we lived in and it was hard to find. When we found the Monument we had to climb up the stairs to the top so we had different angles in our task. We had to record the same section of the video from different angles which was tiring and a lot of hard work. We had our storyboard throughout our filming process so that we added all the rules given by the exam board which was the 180 degree rule and the shot reverse shot with a character opening a door and walking in a room. We didn’t record our Preliminary task as it was in the storyboard we started from the house scene and then went on to record the stairs. After the stairs we had a shot of Jade’s house door which we then had to edit to put in order. Our filming took 2 days and we had to record in three different scenes following our brief in these two days.