Problems With The First Shoot

As we had expected as a group because of the tools and the way we wanted too shoot our title sequence there were a few problems with our first shooting. One of the problems that we encountered was due to the dolly tool that we wanted to use as well as the setting that we was shooting in, the problems that happened here was that we never realised just how wide the dolly was and this effected the movement of the dolly as we kept knocking into things around the scene so we had problems here with the width of the dolly and the shooting of our title sequence. We solved this by moving some of the furniture and things around in the room so that we could shoot the title sequence just how we wanted too, so that it did not bump into any things around the room.

The next problem that we encountered when filming our title sequence was the dolly is only supposed to be used on flat smooth surfaces so that it runs without it bumping up and down as it will effect the camera work. Unfortunately like we had expected before we started shooting, we though that the grooves in the laminated flooring of our setting would effect the filming of our title sequence and so they did. When we was watching the sequence over and over again on the flip cam it did not look so bad, however when we uploaded the footage and took a better look at it, we could clearly see that the camera was jumping up and down. This was a real problem for us as our whole idea was based on the dolly giving us a 360 degrees shot of mike sitting on the sofa. As a group we had to act fast as we had already wasted one day of filming and we did not want the next to go the same way, so we put our heads together and came up with new way too shoot it, this time we would not use the dolly and instead just use a tripod to shoot our footage from. This way it would stop the aggravation caused by the dolly and then we could get some footage for me and Mike to edit. The way in which we would use the tripod to film our title sequence is much in the same way as we would use the dolly, instead of the sequence being one long shot, instead we would break it up into more than one shot but would still have the main aspect of going round our main character in a 360 degrees sort of way.

Now that we have sorted the problems that we have encountered on our first shoot, we will now as a group push on and look towards our second filming of our title sequence and feel that this time things will go more smoothly and that at the end we will have some footage in order for me and Mike to edit.