Opening Scene

This is our first attempt and first edit.





After conversing with an audience member on how we can improve our opening sequence, we found that it was going to be very difficult to achieve a high grade with the footage we have at the moment. Problems we identified included the factors below:

To work on these improvements, we will need to shoot again in order to make our opening sequence considerably better.

Most importantly, we need to make sure that we are going to provide more content for the audience within this sequence. This is because after watching the opening sequence, we do not have enough for the audience to stay engaged with.

Furthermore, we feel as if the content used is lacking in action a little bit thus failing to engage the audience. As a result, we will need to use match on action to show close up shots of Ralph painting. As a result, we practiced these shots prior to the film which will allow us to get a better idea of the shots we need to use in our sequence to make it more engaging.




After filming this scene, we found that using a tripod for the majority of our shots is the most effective way of achieving a steady and professional opening sequence. This is because filming without a tripod, free-hand, we find it difficult to shoot a steady shot especially outside. 

Filming/Editing Diary First Shooting

This diary shows some of the issues and positives we had when filming our opening scene and also editing our opening scene. Here are some of the main issues we had :

Weather - We had an issue with the wind being strong causing the painting we had to fall over and move when were filming. Also the ground was wet and we had to make sure that the paintings were not getting wet so we had to use a towel to stop the paintings from getting wet. Some positives with the weather was that it didn't rain and wasn't too cloudy so we had decent light.

Lighting - Being outside means that we were dependent on the sun being out and giving us the right amount of light, an issue we had was that where we were facing was towards the sun and caused a huge glare on the camera lens, to fix this we did some of the other shots so that the sun would go down some more. Lighting was perfect for some/most of the other filming in our shots.

Camera - We used a GoPro Hero 1 for some shots which has a wide angle lens, on the day we were unable to preview our shots so we had to hope that the shot looked good. Because of the wind we had to have people holding the painting in place and we were un aware that the people holding the painting in place were viewable with the wide angle lens, so we had to scrap the shot.