DAY 1-OFFICIAL SHOOT

Our first official shoot was at Jeyda’s house. It was a very fun day as we just had so much fun shooting together. The experience of figuring how to achieve the shots we wanted and excel in the process of doing so was very exciting. Based on the storyboard, we had a rough idea of the angles and camera movements however through trying to achieve it we had a few couple stumbles here and there. There is 2 shots in particular that we are very proud of that took us almost almost an hour to achieve.

The two shots shown above is two wide angled, tracking shots the the character, one around the back of her and another one moving towards her from the back. We knew form the start that a dolly or any camera equipment besides a tripod and the camera itself was out of our reach nor did we want to hassle to get it.

The process of creating these two shots was my ultimate favourite part of the day. At the end of it, we felt so proud and excited to edit the shots to our liking such as the speed, colour grade and etc. The clip above is the final product of the shots.

Below a behind the scenes look of how the two shots were taken.

I clearly remember the excitement we had after we overcame this obstacle of getting the shot we wanted, the ideas just kept flowing in. We kept in mind the idea of ‘shooting to edit’ which really helped us in a sense that we shot only what we thought would fit the vibe and be a contribution in projecting the meaning of the poem (not just ‘shooting the shit out of it’ quote Paul)

Things I feel we could have improved on:

• We had too many pull focus shots , but luckily we considered the timing and how we could edit/cut it if we did not want the shot as a pull focus.
• Too many of the same shots, next time more of a range in actions/angles
• Not as much camera movement as we should’ve incorporated, too many stationary shots.
• We figured we would add music in the background and not add in the raw audio from the clips, therefore during the shoot we talked a bit too much in the background giving us no option but to cut out the audio.
• Not much of a range in shots, mostly same shot repeated.