Today myself and Conor had a discussion about our plan for this week and we decided that;
-I will take the camera home tomorrow and film some more bedroom shots as the ones which had been filmed are slightly dark so i will try to use different light techniques.
-I will also record the audio of the police side of the phone in, this is all scripted therefore it shouldnt take too long, and should be fairly straight forward. However i will record this a few times to give us more options.
-We will try and get the rest out our shots filmed on wednesday night, which includes the CCTV shots, and the shots in Jamie Branston's car.
We then will hopefully have all of our material to edit more and then have a rough cut for 1st November 2010.
Monday, 18 October 2010
Thursday, 14 October 2010
3rd Day Filming : Wednesday 13th October
Location: Ware and Hertford
Date- Wednesday 13th October 2010
Camera Type- Canon Mini DV MD235
Tape Type- Panasonic Mini DV, 60 SP Mode, 90 LP Mode
Time Spent Filming- 3 hours
Yesterday's filming did not go completely to plan as we hoped to get the shots in Jamie Branston's car, however he was busy all day therefore we couldnt film these certain shots. Therefore instead myself and Conor made the most of our free time to film the day time scenes which we needed, which included the establishing shots of hertford/ware, and some interesting shots of the area too. We also managed to shoot the shots which involved the missing person posters which was created.
I arrived in Ware to meet Conor at about 12pm and we drove to Hertford immediately to film. We began by shooting an establishing shot of Matthew's house, however myself and Conor's house's are not good house's to use therefore we used the property of other people.
We then headed down by the Hertford canal to film the area as we wanted to film some natural shots. We considered ourselves to be quite lucky as there was not a lot of noise in the background so the natural noise may work well in our documentary. We also decided to film shots of the boats down the canal and the different aspects of the boats, such as the reflection in the water and different shot types. Whilst we were filming we agreed it would be beneficial to get as many shots as we could therefore we also framed some of the same shots but at different times therefore some had people in the background and some did not, this will give us more options when we are in post-production.
After filming in Hertford we decided to film in Ware. We went to the Cowfields which overlooks some of Ware, therefore we managed to get an establishing shot there. With this in mind we also managed to test out the different settings on the camera therefore with one shot we blurred it and then re-focused it, which we felt was a very well filmed shot.
We then decided to use the rest of our time filming interesting shots which included the missing person posters, this ranged from shots on lamp posts, on cars, and even scrunched up on the floor. I felt we managed to frame some of these shots very well which i was extremely pleased about.
Overall i believe this was our most successful day of filming, we managed to get many shots done and most of these shots we felt were framed well and were interesting.
Date- Wednesday 13th October 2010
Camera Type- Canon Mini DV MD235
Tape Type- Panasonic Mini DV, 60 SP Mode, 90 LP Mode
Time Spent Filming- 3 hours
Yesterday's filming did not go completely to plan as we hoped to get the shots in Jamie Branston's car, however he was busy all day therefore we couldnt film these certain shots. Therefore instead myself and Conor made the most of our free time to film the day time scenes which we needed, which included the establishing shots of hertford/ware, and some interesting shots of the area too. We also managed to shoot the shots which involved the missing person posters which was created.
I arrived in Ware to meet Conor at about 12pm and we drove to Hertford immediately to film. We began by shooting an establishing shot of Matthew's house, however myself and Conor's house's are not good house's to use therefore we used the property of other people.
We then headed down by the Hertford canal to film the area as we wanted to film some natural shots. We considered ourselves to be quite lucky as there was not a lot of noise in the background so the natural noise may work well in our documentary. We also decided to film shots of the boats down the canal and the different aspects of the boats, such as the reflection in the water and different shot types. Whilst we were filming we agreed it would be beneficial to get as many shots as we could therefore we also framed some of the same shots but at different times therefore some had people in the background and some did not, this will give us more options when we are in post-production.
After filming in Hertford we decided to film in Ware. We went to the Cowfields which overlooks some of Ware, therefore we managed to get an establishing shot there. With this in mind we also managed to test out the different settings on the camera therefore with one shot we blurred it and then re-focused it, which we felt was a very well filmed shot.
We then decided to use the rest of our time filming interesting shots which included the missing person posters, this ranged from shots on lamp posts, on cars, and even scrunched up on the floor. I felt we managed to frame some of these shots very well which i was extremely pleased about.
Overall i believe this was our most successful day of filming, we managed to get many shots done and most of these shots we felt were framed well and were interesting.
CCTV influence
Without paying attention to the genre of this video, i believe this is the height and angle which we need to have our camera when attempting to film our own CCTV shots. I believe the height is good as it is not too far away from the subject and not too high, which would be too high to see Matthew yet i believe it is not too close to the subject which is vital as CCTV camera's are not normally in your face, they keep their distance.
I also feel this is a good example as our CCTV shots will also be at night time, therefore this gives an example of how the lighting should look.
Update
On Monday, Conor took home the camera with the microphone to record his narration. Therefore as i met him the following day, he showed me what he had recorded and overall i was happy with his efforts. He filmed his narration a few times therefore we have more to choose from when adding this to our main production. We decided Conor should do the narration as he speaks well and has a clear voice which is what we wanted.
Typography
Myself and Conor thought it would be appropriate to look at the different types writing we could use when the title of our documentary is revealed.
We both liked this font quite a bit, which was mainly down to the uneven letters, which we felt were positioned well. However in the end we chose not to use this font.
Myself and Conor liked this font too as the typewriter effect was what we were hoping to use if the right font was found. We also thought it would be more interesting thn many other fonts which is the type of effect we want to people to see. There was however a limitation to this font as we felt it was hard to read and has a distorted look to it.
We liked this font as it was clear, easy to read, yet it isnt too plain and simple. However we did feel it was too bold which was not the impression we wanted to give.
We chose to use this font which is called 'King' and was from the website www.dafont.com. We chose this one as it is not too bold, it is a nice clear font however it also has a slight typewriter effect which we liked earlier. Therefore we feel this will be the best font to use.
We both liked this font quite a bit, which was mainly down to the uneven letters, which we felt were positioned well. However in the end we chose not to use this font.
Myself and Conor liked this font too as the typewriter effect was what we were hoping to use if the right font was found. We also thought it would be more interesting thn many other fonts which is the type of effect we want to people to see. There was however a limitation to this font as we felt it was hard to read and has a distorted look to it.
We liked this font as it was clear, easy to read, yet it isnt too plain and simple. However we did feel it was too bold which was not the impression we wanted to give.
We chose to use this font which is called 'King' and was from the website www.dafont.com. We chose this one as it is not too bold, it is a nice clear font however it also has a slight typewriter effect which we liked earlier. Therefore we feel this will be the best font to use.
Monday, 11 October 2010
Poster idea for missing person
After myself and Conor watched the Claudia Lawrence documentary (which also has the genre of a missing person) we thought it would be good to include a missing person poster into our production which could also increase the variety of shots we could use. In this documentary the posters are situated in shops windows which we felt was a good idea therefore we hope to incorporate this into our documentary too. The link to the Claudia Lawrence documentary is below. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/missing-claudia-lawrence/video/series-1/episode-1/where-are-you
This is the poster which will be printed off in numerous numbers so we can put them around places such as in shop windows and on lamp posts to enhance our selection of camera shots. The idea of the layout of the posters came from Claudia Lawrence's one. Yet again we used an idea from that documentary as we feel it ws well structured.
Below is the poster of Claudia Lawrence, which was used as a template for ours when it was created, the colours are similar and the structure is also presented in a similar way.
This is the poster which will be printed off in numerous numbers so we can put them around places such as in shop windows and on lamp posts to enhance our selection of camera shots. The idea of the layout of the posters came from Claudia Lawrence's one. Yet again we used an idea from that documentary as we feel it ws well structured.
Below is the poster of Claudia Lawrence, which was used as a template for ours when it was created, the colours are similar and the structure is also presented in a similar way.
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