On Tuesday 28th February, Callum and I decided to re-shoot the church, grave part of our opening sequence. We had tried various techniques to try and drag out the grave scene to take up the full two minutes. (which I will upload to the blog) . After much discussion with Miss Stone and Mr Cunningham, we realised that the only way we can keep the footage profesional while only using the grave scene, would be to re-shoot.
When we got to Ramsgate we immediatly went down to the Church at the back of Chatham House Grammar School and began filming. As at first we were replicating out previous draft of the scene, it was easy to re-shoot. In fact we loved how much better it looked. It was identical to the previous footage except that Callum had a black coat instead of a brown one and that the footage was filmed on a tripod not hand-held. This improved the profensionality. After we had completely re-shot the footage to a level we were happy with, we added scenes in.
We managed to get a passer by to fill in the role of the flashback character. I also suggested close ups. So I decided to film a close up pan across Callum's eyes and a close up pan across his face. I decided that instead of a straight cut to the flashback, we could build it up. I did this by tilting up from Callum's face, to a tree above him, then put in the flashback where it pans down from a different tree. I also got better shots of the grave. I did an HD shot where the focus goes from the grave to Callum's face as the camera pans around. On the way in we had noticed rememberence poppys which I suggested we film Callum walking past.
This was a much more productive and proffesional filming session.
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