Question 6

Question 6

• 2.
  Blogging  During this projectI had my first experience with blogging and I feel that we as a group did well in blogging but I ended up not being the one to post a lot since I was usually focused on equipment filming and editing including titles. However here is a screenshot of an example of one of my individual blogs.
• 3.
  Equipment  When shooting forthe first time we used a canon 60D camera and a sigma lens DC which was optimised for low light conditions as well as macro shots, however the camera fell of the tripod during filming cracking the display and completely breaking the lens so this left us in a difficult situation as we had nearly filmed all our shots.
• 4.
  lighting  We also useda selection of lighting to create our scene including two soft boxes a industrial light, a light reflector a corner lamp and several candles the last two were left in shot while the rest of the lighting was kept off screen
• 5.
  When setting upthe lighting we would experiment with placing the lights in different areas to see the effect on the set. Once we had set the lights up I had to adjust the camera to desired setting so the focus was correct for each shot. The 1st shot shows what happens when the camera is adjusted correctly and all lights were on and in the correct places while the reflector was in place; in contrast the 2nd image shows what the outcome was with the soft box off and the reflector not in place and both the ISO and exposure not correctly adjusted.
• 6.
  Using the camera I wasusing both cameras most of the time and therefore was the one who had to get the right lighting effects, I would do this by changing the exposure, ISO, the aperture and shutter speed to get a desired effect. I was also the one to set up most of the lighting including the soft boxes as this was mostly my equipment as was the first camera and lens.
• 7.
  Difficulties  We then hadto do two more shoots to get the necessary footage as our actress couldn’t turn up to our second shoot. For these shots we had to use a different camera as the first one was being put in for repair. We ended up getting the shots we could on shoot 2 and finally got all the shots we needed a week later on shoot 3 when everyone was able to attend.
• 8.
  Software  I already knewa considerable amount about editing software's such as Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Premiere Elements 9.0, however I got to experiment with a software which was new to me, Adobe Aftereffects CS3 which is what I used to design the titles in our final piece this was nice for me as I enjoy using new editing software, however I did struggle with the software at first but quickly got to grips with what I was doing.