Test shots

Today we continued filming for the test shots. There were a few shots that we played around with and eliminated any potential problems.
For example we want to include a split screen shot during our piece. The split screen will involve Our protagonist walking past the camera coming from one side of our location and the other characters coming from the other side of our location walking past the other side of our camera. The characters would be displayed separately through the split screen, however once they meet a central location, the shot will go to a wide shot displaying all the characters meeting. This is where the fight would occur between the characters. For a split screen we realised that throughout all the filming we need:
- fluidity of the characters' walking
- An equal level throughout filming so angles don't appear wonky or jolty
- to count the amount of steps the characters take so they can inevitably join in the middle point
- A long shot instead of a wide shot to enable the audience to see the whole of the character and their movements
- differentiation of costume and make-up to display stereotypes

For the fight scene we continued from the split screens into a wide shot. Here we experimented with different angles of Point of view, direct, high and low angles. We took the camera off of the tripod to experiment with numerous handheld angles which proved to add excitement and realism to the shot. There weren't as many difficulties for this scene but in order to change the shots and add variation, we had to ask the actresses to freeze their actions at certain points in order to capture the next angle, whilst keeping the shot continuous. This proved quite difficult at the time, however the editing will neaten the messy parts of the shot.
Other aspects that we had to consider were issues to do with lighting as we are considering filming at night. Moreover, the day was quite sunny therefore it affected some of our shots. This could prove to be a potential difficulty for us during filming.

We began editing the shots we had captured using Final Cut Pro. We added text slides in between shots to make it clear. We used a range of each other's knowledge, and the knowledge we had gathered from our teacher to work around the programme. We did come across some trouble cutting at the beginning and working out how to cut the end of a scene.