Friday, 28 November 2014
Today me and Andy filmed our Trolling story package. Before we went straight into the package to film it, Andy rehearsed the script a few times to become familiar with reading it. We also tweaked the script a bit more on the day of filming to suite his style of speaking.
We filmed in the base room, but cropped the shot and created a shallow depth of field to make it look like an office type environment, being that our story is about trolling, we thought that the mise en scene would fit the story, as trolling happens on a computer.
The equipment we used for the shoot was
Sony PMW
Wireless mic
Tripod
iPad with TelePrompTer software
Here was our set up
Once i'd set up the Camera, this was how i held the iPad underneath the camera so that Andy could read the script whilst looking towards the camera. I also flipped the screen so that i could watch the camera as i was sitting on the opposite side (as you can faintly see on the window)
Heres how i calibrated the camera
5400K - white balance
25p - 25 frames progressive
1920x1080
Exposure set to E84 - i used the histogram to make sure that the highlights were not over exposed.
I had the focus peaking switched on, to make sure that my shot was in focus.
Here's the rough cut of the package, this is with no graphics of VO's
So far we're 15 seconds over our time allowance, however, this is because there's a lot of pauses in the rough cut and it's not cut down to how it would be finally presented
