Filming 3

I am going to shoot the new shots for the idea this weekend, so I've made a shot list to help with the first scene.

Opening


- Before the music starts i will have an introduction showing the car breakdown.


 - An establishing shot of the road, the car will come from behind the camera and pull in, in front. ( possibly use varied focus) 10-15 seconds.
- A pan from the right, hopefully tracking with a car going in the same direction, the car now situated in at the side of the road will come into shot from the left. As camera slows to stop, with the whole car in shot, the driver of the car will emerge, get out( check bonet) and then walk off to sit down. 20-25 seconds.

The music now kicks in;-

-There will be yet another establishing shot, making use of sun glare, showing the driver now sat down. ( shot from the characters left)
- I will then cut to a long shot of the driver on the phone ( speaking to his friends who join the narrative later).
- Then I will show a siloette style shot from a low angle behind the driver, ( looking frustrated).
-  the camera will now be on the characters right, he will start singing, looking directly at the camera.
 - I will cut back to the phone shot, but this time have the character walking towards the camera, with 3-4 edits breaking the long walk up, to make it snappy.
- For the lyric , " In the hope of saving me" , i am going to have a the camera track through the grass, and pan upwards at the character, who is now standing looking forlorn and singing the lyric.

After this point i will cut to the bridge, i would like to possibly spin the camera round on the final few seconds of the opening and at the start of the bridge, and see if i can merge the two shots in a 'trippy style' edit.


Post shooting

- The shooting went fairly well, however i did come across a few problems. When i got back to the media room to edit i found some shots were slightly out of focus, but most were still OK. I will try to get out in the next few days to redo some of the shots, particularly the first establishing shot.
- Another problem i had was a faulty tri-pod which made the Pan shots very difficult, as the tripod kept jumping and it was hard to get a consistent smooth shot.