Technology Discussion - Gareth Allen and Chloe McGlinchey

The camera that we started to film with for our short film was a camera of poor quality when it came out on the computer. This meant that we needed to use a camera with higher quality, a mini DV camera was used. Once we put this onto the computer, we found that there was a drastic change in the quality of the shots we had filmed.
We did try some different angles when it came to filming. We tried doing shots from on the ground to only show the characters feet. This didn't give away who the characters were and what they were doing except they were moving. We did this also for a match on action shot of Matt getting out of his car. We are also going to try and create a split screen with the sets of footage that we filmed at the same time.
From our work last year, we have found that we have developed other ways in which the camera can be moved to keep the focus on people in the film. For one of our shots, we went on a footbridge that overlooked a road near our filming location. We used a tilt for watching Matt driving his car under the bridge. This was an improvement from last year as we only used a pan movement for the camera.
We found that most of the shots that we came up with in the planning part of this project we were able to produce. This was good as it meant that we didn't need to think about how we were going to create some shots.

Gareth Allen and Chloe McGlinchey