Filming Week 1

This week for filming, my group practiced how we were going to film and what shots we were going t use. Because all of my group members and I are very busy, we could not film at the actual location we had in mind, so we compromised and did practice shots at school.

This vide of Josh running is at the beginning of our film opening when Josh is casually on his morning run before he realizes anything was wrong. I used a panning shot to film Josh running because I feel as if it added suspense that was present but was not obvious to Josh at the time. One thing that was hard was timing how fast Josh ran. Because I had to follow Josh while he was running, I wanted to make sure I moved the camera fast enough to capture his whole body, but not fast enough to where the camera became blurry or hard to watch. In order to get the perfect run, Josh and I had to film this scene a few times before we got it just right.

This picture is an example of what the closing scene of our film opening looks like. After Josh has been hit on the head by a softball bat, he ends up unconscious in a basement. Josh is a very good actor so there was not a problem to try and get him to act dead. One problem I did realize was that I will need to be far out in order to film josh's' body horizontally laying down. Vertically, it was not a problem, but for our actual video, everything will be shot horizontally.