FMP diary (WEEK END) 31 March

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This week I planned on shooting in the green screen room and making a rough draft of the film to see what works and what doesn't work. Unfortunate circumstances caused the actor that was supposed to be in my final film and the test footage, not to be in college. So I worked on forced perspective instead to try out this technique to see if it worked.

After I filmed the test footage today, I also researched camera settings which will help me with the next shoot I do. I decided to do this due to the camera looking slightly blurry and not having sufficient depth of field. A thing I'm also going to change in the final shoot is to get a lower tripod as the one I tried was too high up. I overcame this temporarily by using what I had available e.g. books and an Ipad.

Below is the storyboard I created this week for the giants scene.

I watched this video to determine if forced perspective was a practical technique to use in my film. I think that forced perspective requires a lot of planning and thought. I will experiment with different forced perspective techniques. This will help me decide if this is an appropriate technique to use within my film

Above is my test footage that I filmed in the Royal Crescent in Bath. There were several obstacles that I noticed during filming. First of which was the light, the sun was too bright obscuring the screen making it very difficult to focus and get the settings correct on the camera. Also the location that I was filming in was very busy due to the time of day and the weather. I could not find a suitable spot to film where there weren't crowds of people, it was also very difficult to line up the actor in the foreground with the actor running in the background due to filming it and also being the giant.

In the screen shots of After Effects below, I tried boosting the giant up to be on the same level as the running actor. This was too difficult because the grass was obstructing some of the shoe. I tried doing this using the Roto Brush tool