Filming Report

Filming Report

Over all, I filmed over two days. The first on the 1st of December, the second on the 4th of January. I found my greatest struggle was dealing with the winter light. We started filming at 11 oclock in a West-End gallery and by 1 o'clock, it started getting dark. We found that we had to rush filming just to deal with light. This meant that we had to rush the exterior shots. Our exterior shots were the easiest however when we were filming the bench with Churchill on it, the greatest struggle we had was dealing with the mass of people. On average, we only had about five seconds to do a clean shot. If we went over, tourists would get in the way or sit on the bench. It would be impolite to get them to move! Here is a screen shot of the shot I am talking about: - We only managed to get a clean shot of about five seconds before tourists got in the way-

 On our second day of filming, we hoped to film in the national gallery. Sadly the National Gallery managers rejected our  demand to film within the gallery. We did however manage to get the entrance in to the National Gallery up the three flights of steps, even though we had to negotiate with gallery managers. Our hardest shot was the 360 pan. I wanted to get a steady cam effect however we did not have the resources. Luckily warp stabiliser on adobe premiere helped us with this effect. Here is a screen shot.

Our major problem we had was camera life. I was filming on a Panasonic Camera TM700. We only had five hours of filming time, and if we stopped and started recording. The battery life would be a lot less then five hours.  This was the camera I was using:

Finally, our last shots were random shots of paintings, we did these hand held with a jolty movement to give the impression that these paintings were animated. I found these shots very effective. I used a west end gallery to do this. This is seen in the beginning of my opening sequence.