Monday, 13 October 2014

Problems With First Story Board

After going out to begin filming test shots, I realised that many shots in the story board would be very difficult to film. The first test shot Jess and I tried to film was Shot 4.
 
Here I wanted the camera to follow Jess walking past the note, attached to a lamp post, following her eye line to look at the note. This proved very difficult, as shown in
the video, because I am obviously smaller than her and so it was difficult for me to be able to track
what was actually happening on the screen. The movement of the camera was also very unstable and not smooth enough and when turning to focus on the note, it went out of focus. This means I won't be able to include this in my music video and will need to alter the existing story board.
Another problem with the story board is health and safety risks.
Shot 22 shows the camera (and me) placed in tree to show a low angle of Jess taking the note attached to a branch. This would be a safety risk as there is a possibly I might fall, possibly breaking myself and my camera. I will not be able to film this as I think it would be too dangerous and I'm not the best at climbing trees. Another problem with this shot is that there aren't enough trees suited to climb in the location I want to film at. Filming at the bus stop down Newland Avenue will also pose a problem because it is a busy street and trying to film a long shot will be very difficult- if I am to film it from across the street cars driving past will block it, there will be too many people walking past and some people may not want to be filmed.
A final problem with the story board is that it does not swap between locations enough. For example, from Shot 10 to 17 the only location shown is the Old Town. I feel this doesn't allow the narrative to develop and showing the same location for more than 5 shots will make it boring and uninteresting.

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