Today we had a two hour media lesson timetabled in our scheduled but in order to maximize time we decided that part of what we wanted to achieve today would be done at lunch time. We asked our actor Evan (who plays Oliver) to come in and re record parts of the audio for our opening sequence. This is because the original sound is quite quiet and muffled in places which takes away effectiveness. We tried to avoid this from happening on our day of filming by using an actual microphone which we plugged into the camera rather than just relying on the audio picked up by the camera but despite our best efforts this didn't work. He can in to re record the part where he sings the childrens nursery rhyme 'daisy, daisy' and the word 'daisy' at the very end of the sequence where he opens the door. To do this, we used a hand held microphone and an iphone voice recorder just to compare the quality and went into the studio where it was quiet and Evan could concentrate. At first the audio Evan recorded today didn't match up with the original clip as lip syncing is hard but he soon grasped how to do it and we got what we needed. We secondly recorded ourselves and some of our peers saying words like 'missing', 'not found' and other words you would hear in news reports about a missing person to add into the audio when Oliver is walking down the corridor and we will add the effect 'Special distorted' to the clips using Adobe Sound-booth.
Showing posts with label Filming. Show all posts
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Thursday, 14 January 2016
14/01/2016- Re-recording
Re-recording
Today we had a two hour media lesson timetabled in our scheduled but in order to maximize time we decided that part of what we wanted to achieve today would be done at lunch time. We asked our actor Evan (who plays Oliver) to come in and re record parts of the audio for our opening sequence. This is because the original sound is quite quiet and muffled in places which takes away effectiveness. We tried to avoid this from happening on our day of filming by using an actual microphone which we plugged into the camera rather than just relying on the audio picked up by the camera but despite our best efforts this didn't work. He can in to re record the part where he sings the childrens nursery rhyme 'daisy, daisy' and the word 'daisy' at the very end of the sequence where he opens the door. To do this, we used a hand held microphone and an iphone voice recorder just to compare the quality and went into the studio where it was quiet and Evan could concentrate. At first the audio Evan recorded today didn't match up with the original clip as lip syncing is hard but he soon grasped how to do it and we got what we needed. We secondly recorded ourselves and some of our peers saying words like 'missing', 'not found' and other words you would hear in news reports about a missing person to add into the audio when Oliver is walking down the corridor and we will add the effect 'Special distorted' to the clips using Adobe Sound-booth.
Today we had a two hour media lesson timetabled in our scheduled but in order to maximize time we decided that part of what we wanted to achieve today would be done at lunch time. We asked our actor Evan (who plays Oliver) to come in and re record parts of the audio for our opening sequence. This is because the original sound is quite quiet and muffled in places which takes away effectiveness. We tried to avoid this from happening on our day of filming by using an actual microphone which we plugged into the camera rather than just relying on the audio picked up by the camera but despite our best efforts this didn't work. He can in to re record the part where he sings the childrens nursery rhyme 'daisy, daisy' and the word 'daisy' at the very end of the sequence where he opens the door. To do this, we used a hand held microphone and an iphone voice recorder just to compare the quality and went into the studio where it was quiet and Evan could concentrate. At first the audio Evan recorded today didn't match up with the original clip as lip syncing is hard but he soon grasped how to do it and we got what we needed. We secondly recorded ourselves and some of our peers saying words like 'missing', 'not found' and other words you would hear in news reports about a missing person to add into the audio when Oliver is walking down the corridor and we will add the effect 'Special distorted' to the clips using Adobe Sound-booth.
14/01/2016- re-filming
Filming
Today, my group and I decided to go and refilm a couple of shots at our previous location. Our friend Frankie kindly let us return to her house and so in the second half of our lesson we went to film. The first shot that we had to refilm was a two second clip of the doorbell being pressed. In the original clip you could see the reflection of the camera in the window and this was unproffessional so we filmed again and got a clearer more professional shot. Next we re-filmed the establishing shot from the road because the original footage lagged because we slowed it down for effect. It was originally set to 24 frames per second but slowed down made it lag as there were too little frames per second to make it flow. We this time filmed it with the camera set on 50 frames per second so when slowed down it would still flow and not lag.
Today, my group and I decided to go and refilm a couple of shots at our previous location. Our friend Frankie kindly let us return to her house and so in the second half of our lesson we went to film. The first shot that we had to refilm was a two second clip of the doorbell being pressed. In the original clip you could see the reflection of the camera in the window and this was unproffessional so we filmed again and got a clearer more professional shot. Next we re-filmed the establishing shot from the road because the original footage lagged because we slowed it down for effect. It was originally set to 24 frames per second but slowed down made it lag as there were too little frames per second to make it flow. We this time filmed it with the camera set on 50 frames per second so when slowed down it would still flow and not lag.
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Day of filming- Filming
Day of filming
On the day of filming we came across a few issues which we had to process and deal with. Our main actor, Evan couldn't find his dark coloured shirt and so made so with a lighter coloured, striped one. Although this isn't what we planned for it didn't take away from the overall effect and we still managed to portray him as a creepy character without. He also couldn't find his watch but our friends dad kindly lent us his and so we could continue to use that as it was originally meant to be used.
Another problem we encountered was, in our first scene one of our lights blew and the other wouldn't turn on to start with. This meant that we had to film with natural light and any other lighting we could use from within the hosue. We had to do this apposed to going away to fix them and filming on another day as Sunday was the only day that we all had available to film before the deadline.
When we set up the equpitment in our first location we made sure all of the wires were taped down to the floor so nobody would trip over and also took a test shot to set the white balance so our footage would be of the best quality.
On the day of filming we came across a few issues which we had to process and deal with. Our main actor, Evan couldn't find his dark coloured shirt and so made so with a lighter coloured, striped one. Although this isn't what we planned for it didn't take away from the overall effect and we still managed to portray him as a creepy character without. He also couldn't find his watch but our friends dad kindly lent us his and so we could continue to use that as it was originally meant to be used.Another problem we encountered was, in our first scene one of our lights blew and the other wouldn't turn on to start with. This meant that we had to film with natural light and any other lighting we could use from within the hosue. We had to do this apposed to going away to fix them and filming on another day as Sunday was the only day that we all had available to film before the deadline.
When we set up the equpitment in our first location we made sure all of the wires were taped down to the floor so nobody would trip over and also took a test shot to set the white balance so our footage would be of the best quality.
Sunday, 6 December 2015
Day of filming - setting up props
Once we arrived at our filming location at 10:30am we promptly started to set up the scene so we could get on and film. Me and Tammy did this whilst Emma took the lead in setting up the camera and tripod. In the bathroom we positioned the pills inside the cabinet and layed the watch on the sink. We stuck all of the pictures on to the wall, organised the desk and put the record player on a stand.
The only problems we faced when it came to props was that our actor Evan who was lending us his watch to use couldn't find it but we solved this issue by borrowing our friend Frankie, dads watch. If we were to do this again we would also print off more photographs for the wall and of different people rather than using the same picture twice.
In terms of costume, he was also unable to bring a dark shirt but it didn't matter as the shirt he did use, a light blue one still looked effective and din't take away from the overall look we were trying to achieve.
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