Today, we decided to film the scenes where the actors were not required. This included the drone shots, which we needed help filming (by an outside source who owned the drone) and the kill scene during the night.
The drone shots were simple to do and the weather was good enough to conduct them. We told the drone pilot what we wanted and could see the shots he was taking on the screen. We were able to get some good shots of the thick woodland from different angles and one where the drone itself was moving. Each of these were shot in 4K and should be perfect for our final product.
When night fell the group went out to film the kill scene. We decided to use ourselves in the roles so that the identity of the killer was not revealed at the start of the movie. Filming the kill scene has been (and probably will continue to be) the hardest part of our filming so far. The weather was not great so the ground was extremely muddy. Also, we struggled to get enough lighting to shoot the scenes for a while, before we decided to use phone torches and the camera light itself to shoot the scene. This makes it look really artificial, however, this can be rectified during the editing phase using colour correction. It was also very cold, so the amount of filming time was greatly reduced. However, we got the shots that we needed across the main camera and a go-pro. We also got shots of the killer themselves and used some fake blood to try and show our genre very clearly. This went ok, but the shots are not perfect so we may re-film some or use editing to make them look better. However, we got a good amount of footage to work with and if do need to do re-shoots in the near-future we will.
Since we didn't have a lot to shoot, time was managed very well and as a result we, as a group, felt very accomplished with what we had filmed during the day.
No comments:
Post a Comment