14/01/16- Re-filming and re-recording

Re-filming and re-recording footage

Today, we had a media lesson scheduled for 2 hours in the afternoon.

Evan and I voice recording

Our actor, Evan (who played Oliver) was meant to voice record on Tuesday but he wasn't able to come into college. So, today I arranged for him to come and do a voice over of the part where he sings 'Daisy Daisy'. This is because the quality of the sound could be improved by making it more clear. In order to do this, we used a hand held microphone and then when we had voice recorded Evan, we imported the clips into Adobe Premier Pro. To start with, Evan found lip syncing a little difficult, but after listening and watching the original clip and then whilst recording, playing the original footage, he was able to produce a really great recording.

Then, we decided to voice record some of our peers, as well as ourselves for the news reporters. We started to do this the other day, however after importing them into our opening thriller sequence, we found that we didn't obtain enough footage to allow for us to overlap each voice, to make them sound strange and distorted.

On Tuesday, I completed my audience feedback for the second draft edit, and so we decided to use the feedback our audience had given us to begin to make any changes which were still outstanding. Something which was apparent from all our audience surveys was that the establishing shot of the house at the beginning of the opening sequence was a bit jumpy, and the doorbell footage was filmed without a tripod. So, my group and I went back to the location where we originally filmed. We took the Cannon 700D camera (used originally to film) and a tripod. When arriving on location, we first re-filmed the doorbell footage. It was very sunny today, and the sun was shining directly on the house, which wasn't ideal. This is because unwanted shadows were created. However, we found a camera angle and position where the shadows were not as bad, and Tammy ensured that when pressing the doorbell, to move her hand in a certain way to avoid casting shadows. 

We then moved the tripod onto the road, in front of the house. We ensured that the tripod was stable and level, and then locked the tripod so that the head could not move side to side, and only move up and down. I loosened the handle to allow a smooth panning shot to be achieved. We also changed the setting of the camera to shoot at 50 frames per second, so that when we import our footage we can slow it down and so it should be a very smooth panning shot.

After shooting numerous shots to ensure we would have some decent footage to work with, we headed back to college. We then imported the footage off the SD card onto the computer, and began to select the footage we would like to use to replace the old footage. Tomorrow, we plan to use our free period to add the footage into our opening thriller sequence, as well as adding the new voice recordings and editing them further to make them sound distorted.

Izzy and I re-filming the establishing shot of the front of the house.