Naomi's Evaluation - Question Six

Technologies


In my group we have all personally learnt a lot more about the technology during the time of the filming for our thriller, 'White Collar Complex' although we had been taught in the past for our preliminary task how to use cameras, and later on we got taught how to use lighting effectively, we were still lightly unprepared on how to use it; but while filming for our thriller we tested a couple of shots with lighting and using the camera, we became more confident on how to use it all.
We all learnt how to use the camera efficiently because we all helped film, this helped us all because allowed us to learn a lot more than we knew when operating a camera before this project. To make sure we had the filmed the best shots possible we decided as a group that if one of us wasn't happy with a particular shot, we would film it again but also we would film every shot more than once just in case it wasn't up to our standards.

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Of course we never forgot the importance of white balance because we wanted our footage to have perfect clear colour in it. For our framing I believe that we used framing effectively, therefore we have learned that each shot requires planning on how the framing is used.

We also remembered how important tripods were as we didn't want any of our shots too look rushed or unprofessional, especially if we were going to use a pan shot for the kitchen scene and  the tracking shot for the dog scene; if we didn't use a tripod we would've found it rather difficult to make these shots look impressive and stable as we needed a tripod for every shot in our thriller.