Remarks on Filming
I had mentioned last entry that I would write something concerning our filming process. If anyone has had the chance to watch the mini-dvd we gave out they will see a small clip with myself, Chris, and my wife who is applying that awesome beard I wore. When we did filming for the movie the main difficulty we had was in the light placement and how much room we had to work with. Where the lights were placed ultimately led to the problems we had later with the green screen popping in while we did editing (this was due to a colour change of the green screen because of darker shadows). We continue to use the woodshop as it is a place that provides us with a location to film and not have to be worried about any excess noise coming into our shots.
Aside from all the laughing that takes place while doing some of the more ridiculous scenes, one of the major things that takes up time is the actual editing of the movie. I believe we mentioned last class for every hour we spend filming or on set translates to at least an hour or 2 editing. I hope Chris posts some of the bloopers or parts of the movie that we had to leave out due to time constraints. We had originally had introductions for both the Back to the Future III clip, as well as a further explanation about the movie Sphere which was all but left out of the presentation.
The process of coming up with what to include in the movie is interesting as well. We have to use what we know from pop culture to kind of fuel what extra things we’d include in the movie, as well as the blog write up. As far as the overall design we go for a PBS style documentary as they always seem to have interviews intermixed with imagery and music. this is actually our second attempt at a documentary style project the first of which we did last semester that can be seen here. It made it somewhat easier this time in planning as we saw places we could improve namely how to make the interviews flow a bit better.
So that’s about it. Not a whole lot to say about it but I thought it’d be nice to share some of the background stuff about our filming experience on the project. Until next time and my thoughts on The Coming Race.
