Thursday, 12 November 2009

Starting Filming

Since we have finished the storyboard we have decided to start filming the basics of what our documentary is going to include. As a group we have been out driving, and doing different shots of Josh driving. One of our techniques is whilst Josh is driving, filming the the rear view mirror to see his reflection as well as the road.
We have discovered that the use of close up shots are good to cause tension in the scene, whether its on the interviewees mouth whilst they are talking, or their face, we also thought that a clsoe up shot of the car as it drives part the camera is a useful shot, but we need to practice shooting that specific shot so that it doesn't look too blurry.
During our editing we have also sped up some shots of Josh driving, so that the cars going past on the other side of the road look like they are going quicker than they are, so that Josh didn't break the speed limit anywhere. We also took safety precations when filming the shot down the lane, we had two people stood on either end of the lane so that there was chance of them driving into Josh.