Construction: Filming and Re-Filming

Our first time filming was a disaster. On the day of filming we made sure to leave with plenty of light still left in the day, and before we knew it we where recording in pure darkness. not only this but the clips we captured and played back where unfortunately bad quality and shaky. Along side these clips which we played back on the camera looked usable, however imported on to a bigger screen we can spot even more issues with these clips pretty much leaving all our clips rendered useless.

First Filming attempt.

Our first few clips where different camera angles and movements of our Chase scene. This particular shot was a tracking shot following our character, on play back we though that the blur around the character that is in focus created a decent chase scene with the effect that he is running for his life, the distortion adds to the effect that he is being chased.

This was one of the upwards panning spin shot, it looked effective showing the trees towering over adding to the effect that this forest is isolated. However on second viewing the exposure and lighting was awful, the focus was too much on the sky and light rather than on the trees which we were hoping for, This could of easily been fixed if our camera had a manual focus mode to help change the exposure.

Out of all our footage, this still shot looked the most professional, the idea of the still shot just being to show how isolated and quiet this forest was before the disturbance. a few more of these would also be effective in being used to input titles for our opening sequence.

We also attempted more angles of our camp site, this particular one was a crane shot moving from the bottom on the right hand side of the tree upwards in an arch towards the top left hand side of the tree, this shot looked pretty good but the fact that it was shaky and it wasn't smooth no matter how hard we tried.

This was one of our last shots before it quickly went pitch black. This was a panning shot from the treelike down towards the entrance of the tent, this footage was where we would introduce our main characters.

Quickly you can start to see that our footage has become darker, which is very noticeable in contrast to our last scene. Another panning shot was used to frame this shot. It came in from an angle hiding the camp and slowly reviled the scene which i thought looked pretty effective.

However, as the sun set and it became darker our shots looked more menacing and more horror-esque. this particular shot was a point of view of our character locking their phone, the close up of the phone foreshadows the importance of the device at a later date.






Before we knew it, there was not enough light to capture the detail we needed, it's quality is also extremely poor along with the last few clips as it started getting dark, the footage was grainy and had so much noise that the floor looked like it was shaking which was not a desired effect.





Running Scenes Re-done

Since our filming was a disaster, me and Jake went out to film more running scenes, these were much better than the first ones in terms of the lighting and quality. We also got a lot of running scenes so we have a lot to work with shot wise so if we don't like a particular shot, we have another shot to replace it with. We also found it much easier to get the running scenes because we didn't have to focus on the other scene as well meaning we had more time to find a decent location, get a lot of different angles,movements and shots. Overall, these running scenes were much better and better quality because we took more time on these because like i stated before, we didn't worry one bit about getting shots for the other scene as well.