That's a wrap! (Filming our performance...again)

Finally, we are done with our filming! Our second shoot was a success, relocating to Canbury Gardens in Kingston, a park along the riverside. This relocation immediately boosted our work as the park was a lot more scenic and beautiful in comparison to my house, and therefore we were happier with this shoot even before we started filming. We were also lucky in the fact that it was not as cold as our previous shoot (even though it was still extremely chilly), so that we could function.

We all took turns with the filming, using Grace's digital SLR as we do not currently have any cameras at school, and this made the quality of our film clearer. However, this means that the footage will be tedious to upload as the videos are much larger files. We also did not have a tripod or a dolly, so all of our tracking, which was the majority of our footage, was filmed handheld and this runs the risk of an extremely shaky camera.

All in all, I am extremely pleased of today as getting our performance done is a weight off our minds and we now know that if we work together as a group we can get everything we need to done. Also, leading up to the performance I was extremely worried about how it would look on camera given our first try, but I am not very relieved. We also got some  more pictures that could be used for the ancillary tasks, which is good.

One thing that was vitally important in our work was ensuring that we had a good variety of shots and angles. We knew from feedback on our previous footage that we hadn't done enough close ups and we made this a priority. One shot I was particularly proud of, however, was a 360° shot that did a full circle around Connor and ended up back with him singing.