Camera practice

After carrying out the auditions we still had some more time with the camera before we had to hand it in. We decided to make the most of this time and get some practice with the camera. This was a good opportunity for us as we got to take a look at some of the scenes which would take us the longest and which we needed to get right. This was the chase scene and the car crash scene. The storyboard had our character run through the city at night through several locations and end up at the location we chose for the crash.

We found some good locations which would look good on camera but some problems could occur with them being too populated with people when we want to film. We took pictures anyway and left them as possibilities.

We found a good lane which we wanted to use and decided to film some practice shots of us walking up and down to get an idea of how it looks on camera. However we were not sure well lit the area would be at night as well as how safe it would be to work in.

Afterwards we went a location close to the crash scene to get an idea of how we would film the transition from one scene to another and also practice different techniques. We practiced running past the camera and having it follow the person as they run past and to pan around. We tried this with and without the tripod to see which was more effective. We found that the movement was a lot smoother on the tripod.