In today's lesson, I put my knowledge from the previous workshops about cameras and editing to film a short dialog sequence. I filmed this short dialog sequence with Tegan, Adriana, and Anna.
At first we took the camera, tripod and microphone out of the bags and cases and set them up just how we had been shown to. By using a microphone it allows us to capture the vocal vibrations, we pointed this towards the speaker. We then filmed a conversation and shot this many times, each time changing the camera angle or movement in order to edit it to look like a smooth conversation just like we see on TV and films. This includes over the shoulder shots, mid shots, wide shots, extreme close up and close ups. We even attempted a tracking shot which didn't turn out very well as the stability was not good.
During our filming of this dialog we used previous techniques that we have learnt in workshops, such as the 180 degree rule. We kept this in mind during the filming in order to give the audience a sense of direction and placing of the actors. We kept the camera filming on one side of two actors as they had their conversation so that actor 1 remained on the left at all times, and actor 2 on the right at all times.
The only problem that we discovered was when we attempted to film a hand held, tracking shot. For this we did not use a tripod and no image stabiliser so this meant that the footage was very wobbly. In the future if we do film a hand held, we should use a gimbal to help make the shot smooth.
I think that the acting in this sequence was not great, we rushed the script and this meant that the acting felt un natural. Perhaps next time we would use better actors and think of a better conversation to script, a topic more interesting so that we could of filmed more interesting shots in a better location.
From this shooting workshop, I have learnt tips to help in our upcoming Opening Titles Sequence. In the future, use less dialog and more action in order to get more interesting shots and footage.
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