Assignment 6: Filming the raw clip

I managed to get my brother, although rather reluctantly, to agree to be my main lead in the superhero video. Because it is the weekends, I also manage to get my mom to agree to be in my video.

Shooting was tough, because I did not want to reshoot any of the scenes if possible. And because I was doings several reverse action scenes, these shots have to be planned properly in order for the video to look realistic, even with the ridiculous powers.

I shot the scenes with my mother first because she had to go out later in the afternoon. After that I got my brother to continue filming with me and to go out of the house for several location shots. I was glad that I was using the Sony HD camera from the CNM department instead of the DV cameras from the MDL, it was lighter and more handy compared to the ones from the MDL.

Although it was a 3 min clip, there are so many scenes and several close-ups to make the video more interesting. I realise from previous experience, videos which are taken from the same angle would appear very boring and very dull. It will also put this distance between the actor and the viewer of the video which will make it seem not as realistic.

Thus I took several different shots of the same scene to provided a rounded angle. I wanted to try the Batman angle to show a bit of awkwardness, afterall, superhero effects are not exactly something most people are comfortable with. But the Batman angle did not look good and I decided to cut it out of the video. I tried various kinds of shots like close-ups and medium close-up and some further establishment shots. Afterall, I have learned all these in class and should put it to use.

I also decided to mute most of the videos and to find a freesource royalty free music to go over it. From my experience doing the NUS video for my group which depended heavily on sounds, sounds is very important to the viewer when watching the video, thus, I decided to put music to, firstly, give the video a suitable mood, and secondly, to let the audience concentrate more on the visuals and leave the audio as something complementary.

After a whole day of filming, I spent the whole night viewing the videos and deciding on what to use for the actual video. I'll edit the videos into order and decide if I need to reshoot anything the next day.

It's another tiring day of filming. Hopefully something good comes out of this.

What am I talking about... something will. (^_^)