OH MY GOD! filming time!

We were put in groups. My team was Rachel Sowden, Keiran Jones and Tom Charnley.
We were given a brief script called 'Oh My God'. We were asked to shoot around 15 shots for this short film. We had been asked to film right to left.

We also had been taught about the 180º rule, in which you have to stay on the same side of the invisible 180º line otherwise it will confused the viewer once the shots are put on screen because the left to right/right to left rule wont apply. For example if a train is shot on both side of the 180º line the train will look as it has changed directions if the shots keep changing.



The basic outline for the film was : A girl gets an important phone call in which she immediately sets off to try and help. The film ends with a reaction shot after she has opened the door of our classroom.


We were shown this video by Robert Rodriguez, which explains in 10 minutes how to make a good low budget film. This was useful for this project and also will come in useful for our future.




Whilst making our mini film, we used a tripod which kept the camera steady and at the correct angle, this gave it a professional feel.
I was the 'actress' in this film , and i don't think i looked particularly professional.
We managed to get lots of different shots from different angles, obviously using the correct health and safety procedures. When tom was filming me running toward him , keiran held his back to prevent him failing over.

Tom lived in student accommodation near by, so we took this opportunity to use the copious amount of stairs to get some interesting shots. Whist filming a few times we got confused about right to left, and had to think through what it would look like once we were watching it back.
We also took into account how professional films used close ups, and used closeups for such moments as the phone ringing, we filmed a close up of the phone, and we also did empty screens, where you run into shot. Other techniques we used were over the shoulder, panning, and high angle shots.

When we have logged and captured our film and edited it together I will put the film up on this blog.

So far, as I haven't seen the finished product yet, I feel our filing went well and we worked well as a group, I feel that our shots looked steady and professional , and we used a good variety.