Finishing Planning and Beginning Filming

• Today Me, Matt, Tom and Liam finished off the script for our 30 second clip and created a storyboard showing which camera shots we were going to use in different parts of the clip. We then moved on to actually beginning to film our clip using a video camera and a tripod
•  We learnt that there are certain things that need to be done when using a video camera, such as how to attach the camera to the tripod, how to clean the lens with a tissue, making sure the screen was set to 16:9 (wide screen)
•  When recording clips we needed to make sure that we recorded 5-6 seconds of ambient sound to use in our clip, as well as using the 'rule of thirds' to make the camera angle more interesting; this is where you split the camera into thirds horizontally and vertically in order to film characters and locations as such, from different points on the screen instead of just centrally
•  The last part of our filming was to make sure that we used a white sheet of paper directly in front of the screen and selecting the white balance button on the camera so that the white balance was correct and our clip had continuity