Friday, 16 November 2012

Tricky Shots List

In our film we will have quite a few tricky shots the main one of these being the coin flipping scene.. this will be hard to film as we need to get the movement of the coin as it spins through the air without the camera loosing focus, which will be hard as we need to pan. We intend on recording this shot hand held as it will enable us to follow the movement of a coin. To ensure this shot goes right we are going to do some practise shots on Friday 30th November. Below is an example of a slow mo coin flip similar to the one we intend to create. 




We also need to practise another tricky shot which will be filming Sarah standing in a puddle as this will be a shot we can only do once and will have to make sure that the shot before this will blend seamlessly as it is an usual place to film considering the shot before will probably be either a long shot or a medium close up of face/upper body. Another problem with this could be that we're relying on the weather being miserable and rainy, this is the same with another shot where Dianne asks Sarah to take the dog out and her excuse is that it is raining, if it isn't raining this will cause issues with filming and we may have to change the shooting script or improvise a little.

For our title sequence we want to create the effect of lots of coins falling down, this shot will be tricky as it will be close up and we risk the coins bouncing back up from the floor and out of the shot. 
Here is an example we have found on Youtube: 


This shot is good because we can see the coins falling well  it is in slow motions. We could use the slow motion effect to we can show the detail better, also so we don't need to use as many coins and it will take up the same amount of time. However in our film we want to have a wider shot so we can see from where they are falling from to the floor and then a closer shot of the coins hitting the floor. 

Another tricky shot we will be filming is when Sarah smashes her phone screen, to do this we have a got another phone the same which already has a smashed screen we will have to stop the camera and swap the phones quickly before Sarah throws it, we will probably film this more than once so that we can ensure our shots match up perfectly without a jump in the middle where we have had to stop filming. 

In our film there is quite a few tricky shots but by doing practise shots before hand, planning on how to do the shots and watching videos and tutorials of how to do things we hope that we should be able to make these shots look effortless and have them blend in perfectly with the rest of the filming we do!


On the 31st November we recorded some of our own attempts at the tricky shots, from doing this we now feel we have a better idea of how to create the shots we want in our final film.