Thursday 21st January Lesson 2

The main objective for lesson 2 was to begin the filming process. However, before we were able to make a start to the filming we had to finalise the planning stage, which included annotating the last blank section on our storyboard. Following this, we were required to set the white balance on our camera. And set the screen size to the one that we preferred. Either standard screen or widescreen, due to the effect that is given. Our group chose to use the standard screen setting, as no other groups in our class were using this type of screen and we hoped for a different feel to the rest of the products that were being made elsewhere in the classroom.
After setting up our camera properly, which included setting the white balance on the camera, and fixing it to the tri-pod provided, we then moved onto filming. Our first shot consisted of a tracking shot on the feet of our pizza boy character walking to a door, after this shot we included many other effects and camera angles such as low angle shots, high angle shots, over the shoulder shots and a shot reverse shot, showing conversation and reactions between our two main characters. Despite making good progress in the filming stage, we were not able to complete all of the footage we required in the time that we had during this lesson, and hope to complete the filming process during our next lesson on Tuesday.