Today was a very productive and gave us a good sense of what we are approaching, int terms of filming and our challenges. In the process of making some very short demo’s we saw a variety of different obstacles that we shall be encountering. We made a small demos trying out different techniques, ranging from panning to focus pulling. We knew this would be difficult as we were using still images and stop motion. One of the main difficulties with panning was that keeping the movement and motion smooth, the tripod we used had a full motion tilt head this made it a struggle to keep the camera level whilst panning. From this we know understand that we need to acquire a tripod that has multi-movement functions that are separately controlled, this will eliminate the the problem of the camera going of level.
The problems we had with focus pulling only really came around when we wanted to have objects moving during the focus change, we had lots of things to think about and it will take a lot of planning to get right. Normal focus pulling with stationary was very simple an fairly quick to do.
One of the main obstacles we encountered today was camera movement, we are aiming for a fluent motion. So practice and new skills will have to be applied to gain the best effect and quality we aim for.
Videos from today’s session will be uploaded and embed into the post.
