Ideas for locations and testing shots

In the lesson we decided to look at our storyboard and think about a few things before we actually go out to film so things would not be chaotic. As we are in the middle of taking location shots for our trailer, we wanted to pick our locations, as we got several shots for locations, as well as to pick particular scenes that would happen at that location. At the beginning of our trailer, where the children are walking through the park, we choose to film this at Park Langley Estates as the location is not noisy and calm. The scenes with Alex and Stella needed to be filmed in a room, we choose to film this in the Annexe building which belongs to our school. Last but not least, we decided to film the scene with Alex and Claire on the bridge at Kelsey park, as the bridge is under a lake, this creates that romantic atmosphere that we would like to film. The images of our final three locations are shown below, although we are going to take the shot of the Annexe building and upload this onto the blog soon.


                                                           

After having a lesson today, we thought that we should test one of the shots that is going to be in our trailer so that we can know the difficulties if any now as well as knowing if the shot is worth including at all in the trailer.  We took a short clip using the effect of the shallow focus, as we have never used this effect before and don't know how to use this on the camera, this test shot helped us. There were some difficulties trying to do the effect on the camera as we couldn't quite get the grasp of doing a deep focus on the character in front and a shallow focus on the character at the back although, we did get there in the end.The short clip that we did to test this effect will soon be uploaded to the blog as we are currently editing the final look of testing shot.