Firstly, we decided to test shoot some ideas for the first scene of our movie. As it is focused on a girl in a room we thought it would be effective to show her from a distance, then zoom into her face, and her hands, as she is writing. Then, we would've gone from this into a side shot, using the dolly as a prop to guide the camera steadily until it got behind her, where it would change into an over the shoulder shot.
In our practice, our cameraman wasn't here, so Valeriya had to take control, using her experience from different shots using the dolly before the Christmas holidays. However, it didn't go as smoothly as we imagined, as the shots Valeriya took were too jumpy, due to the fact we had no dolly.
The crane shot, we all agreed was the only one that was smoothly done, and after editing, although it wasn't perfect we could see a massive transaction to when we first started.
To have it perfect in the finished piece we will make sure we have the dolly to use and instead of using the same shot to zoom in, we will have a separate shot to do so.
The dolly test was the first time we actually filmed spontaneously, with the use of the dolly. We filmed about an hours worth of footage, only deciding to put the ones we felt were done the best. The first one, a scene from 'Romeo and Juliet' Josh captured the part where i fell perfectly, zooming out at exactly the right moment. However in watching his dolly moving skills we realised he needs to be slightly more steady when moving the camera.
For the next two shots, we decided to collaborate them to show a sort of short scene, where Valeriya reads a note and the camera moves closer, then stops to zoom in, this is called "?" it zooms into her eyes, causing a suspensive effect, and the scene quickly changes to Josh on a chair, as if the camera is going into her mind. It gives an eerie sense that he has something to do with what the letter is about, as the camera is moving along the dolly as his eyes are following it, however this also could've been done better by the camera moving less.
In our practice, our cameraman wasn't here, so Valeriya had to take control, using her experience from different shots using the dolly before the Christmas holidays. However, it didn't go as smoothly as we imagined, as the shots Valeriya took were too jumpy, due to the fact we had no dolly.
The crane shot, we all agreed was the only one that was smoothly done, and after editing, although it wasn't perfect we could see a massive transaction to when we first started.
To have it perfect in the finished piece we will make sure we have the dolly to use and instead of using the same shot to zoom in, we will have a separate shot to do so.
The dolly test was the first time we actually filmed spontaneously, with the use of the dolly. We filmed about an hours worth of footage, only deciding to put the ones we felt were done the best. The first one, a scene from 'Romeo and Juliet' Josh captured the part where i fell perfectly, zooming out at exactly the right moment. However in watching his dolly moving skills we realised he needs to be slightly more steady when moving the camera.
For the next two shots, we decided to collaborate them to show a sort of short scene, where Valeriya reads a note and the camera moves closer, then stops to zoom in, this is called "?" it zooms into her eyes, causing a suspensive effect, and the scene quickly changes to Josh on a chair, as if the camera is going into her mind. It gives an eerie sense that he has something to do with what the letter is about, as the camera is moving along the dolly as his eyes are following it, however this also could've been done better by the camera moving less.
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