At 14:50
to 15:05 today I managed to take pictures from two of my scenes. These scenes
were when the audience first sees Jimmy and Sadie’s relationship and when Jimmy
is being bullied by Jerome and Burdine. I believe this shoot when extremely well.
To begin
with I had to choose where I wanted these scenes to take place and I, with help
from my actors, decided to use the sixth form common room as there was a lot of
space as well as the fact that no other students were in there therefore we
could all concentrate on the task ahead and getting these scenes completely
finished and ready to edit.
I started
by taking pictures of the scene where Jimmy is getting bullied by Jerome and
Burdine. My initial idea was to have Jerome (George) and Burdine (Holly) walk
past Jimmy (Oliver) and whilst walking past him Jerome would push Jimmy so that
his folders and books fell out of his arms however I decided to still do this
but add on a sequence where Jerome slams Jimmy up against the school cabinets
before walking away. This was because it was not clear that Jerome is pushing
the folders out of Jimmy’s arms and from this new idea it is extremely clear
that Jimmy is being bullied.
Following
on from this, I did originally suffer with one problem which was my timing of
taking the pictures. When Jimmy drops his folders I unfortunately could not
time myself correctly to see the folders mid-air. To resolve this problem I changed
my camera settings to ‘sports’ which takes a number of pictures which just one
click, this meant that I had the whole action and now means I have a range of
pictures to choose from.
Below
is an example shot:
Although
in this picture the actors are blurry I think that it works well as it looks as
though Jerome is using his full force and shows he doesn’t care for Jimmy. It also
shows the high action of the scene.
Furthermore,
I also took pictures of Burdine and Jerome laughing as they walk away from
Jimmy, this shows their lack of sympathy for him which is good because it clearly
shows the audience their personalities.
When
starting the other scene I had a minor problem with the lighting as it was
either too light that the actors looked very pale or it was too dark that they
looked orange and the image was very dull. To resolve this problem I messed
around with the common room lights and also my camera settings. Luckily, I had
a fellow student who knew how to work the camera I was using. For this shoot I used
the ‘full auto’ image so that the lighting and image looked natural.
I took
the pictures from a variety of angles, for example:
- From the side
- A long shot from the front
- A mid shot from the front
- A close up for a low angle to show Jimmy’s passion for Burdine
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