Monday 11 April 2016

Week 11.5: My Experience of the Saturday Shoot

I thought the Saturday shoot was a lot of fun! It was interesting to see how each group was approaching their project, especially within the restriction of only being able to film one take. My group first helped Group 1. They required a sufficient amount of time to set-up and rehearse because they has to coordinate with a dolly. I think their project will look great, the guitar smash will look phenomenal when it is screened.

It was also nice to work with film processing again. I think it is a beautiful process that is sadly being filtered out by Hollywood's digital age.

My group decided to make our short more like a comedy. Our scene was a water balloon fight where an innocent bystander gets killed by a water balloon. As the perpetrator looks up, she sees an army of avengers standing around the dead victim's corpse. They then ensue in a chase pelting the attacker with water balloons until she is dead. Our group intended our short to appear like a Charlie Chaplin-esque chase scene. We shot at 12 fps with a 5.6 aperture. To give our footage a more rugged, on-the-scene look, we did not use a tripod but went with handheld instead.

I think the greatest challenge of the day was the fact we all had to rehearse our scene and camera work several times before actually shooting. It was a different experience acting out a scene as if during a theater performance for a film take. This was a very interesting project to practice improvisation, detailed and clear blocking, and the challenge of one take.

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