11 September 2008
On Thursday we went to the BBC television centre in White City.
We were introduced to Sav, a worker in the 21CC area.
Once we were introduced to him, we were reminded of the camera angles and shots that can be used whilst filming, as we were going to create out own short film.
There were different shots that could be used, including close ups, over shoulders, medium shot and extra close up. They also told us about the sound and the microphones. The microphone should never be in the shot or should never be seen whilst filming. You can adjust your microphone to 90 degrees for getting just the person in front of you or 120 used for the people around you.
Then we got into groups of 5 and had a go at using the cameras and microphones. In my group it was Rianne, Ebony, Kubra, Kitty and I. We rotated our positions round. E.g. we had a cameraman, a soundman, a director and 2 actresses and we would swap roles every few shots.
Then we had to plan out our actual film we were doing. We had to make a short 2 minute film about something fiction. We all had different ideas and in the end we ended up combining it all and coming up with a good structured plan.
Once we got filming we had a few problems, we didn't no our way round the place so we didn't really understand where we could and couldn't film. In the end we over came that by looking around and making ourselves familiar with the area around us, and where we had good or bad shots. It took us a while to get started but we managed it in the end. We had around 6 different camera shots.
Our shots weren’t how we expected it to be but much better. Our plan developed as we got more into the day and became more comfortable with filming.
When we got to the second part of the day we had to edit what we had and start putting everything together. The editing wasn't as easy as I thought it would be but I was learning as the day went by. Sav showed us various techniques that could be used whilst filming and I found them very useful when it came to our turn. We didn't manage finishing it all in the end because the sound that was provided didn't fit with our film.
I think we did quite well in our group, we managed to hit all our targets and we had a great time! If I could change one thing and improve on it, I'd have probably have planned out our work more so we made sure nothing could go wrong for us.
