Broadcasting- Filming

For my research I wrote analysis's of certain chase scenes from films such as, 'Casino Royale', 'Lord of the rings', 'The Shining' and 'French Connection'. In doing so I focused on camera angles in all of the chase scenes. I noticed in my research that there was a lot of fast cuts between characters in the scene, this establishes the chase further. Other camera angle that I thought was effective as a point of view shot, in doing this the shot is of the behind of the person being chased, this not only establishes a chase more but also shows distance between the characters in the scene.

At the start of the second week we were ready to begin filming our sequence. We went into Starbucks in the O2, as we needed a coffee shop to start off our story. However shortly after we started filming we were approached by the O2 security who told us we couldn't film in Starbucks without permission. To get this we would have to email someone and it could take a couple of days to get permission to film. This put us all in a difficult situation as we couldn't afford to wait a couple of days to get permission. Instead we ventured to the train station and after asking the staff at Cafe Nero we were able to start filming. Overall I think this worked out for the best as Cafe Nero is situated in the station, which made the filming much more easier and would make the film flow better when put together. For our film, Helen and Jack were acting whilst Imogen and I were filming. I wanted to use my knowledge taken from my research about different camera angles, therefore we experimented a lot with different ways that we could film the sequence. One camera perspective that I think was filmed really well was the handheld, point of view of Helen chasing Jack. I also think that the shots of Helen running down the stairs were filmed well as they showed how long it took for her to run down the stairs, this was done by timing the same scene but from different angles from the top of the stairs. To film our sequence we used Jacks camcorder and Imogen's SLR camera, in using both of these we were able to film a lot more footage and from different angles without any mistakes being made ( objects moved, people getting in our shots).

Although the filming of our sequence took up a lot more time than we thought, I enjoyed it a great deal. My group worked extremely well together and weren't afraid to say whether we thought something didn't work or not. And our ideas bounced off each other. I also think that the fact that we had our own roles helped a lot as we were very organised and knew what we were all doing.




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