Location Scout 2: Main Issues

Sound

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Having completed our second scout, we came back to college to upload and review the footage we had taken. We were immediately presented with a problem. As we watched the clips back we came to realise that there was in fact no sound on the footage from 2 of the cameras,  one camera had captured the sound well but the other clips came out completely silent. Thankfully, the shoot was simply for location scouting purposes and so will not have any major affect on our final project. We found the issue was no serious problem and all we had to to was adjust a setting on the two cameras that had not captured sound. This however has taught to ensure we do do more thorough camera checks before we head out to shoot, i.e. maybe taking a short clip before we leave and reviewing it. In the same way the incorrect white balance made us realise complete checks are vital.




sound problems from Sammie Masters-Hopkins on Vimeo.


This piece of footage above is from on of the camera that had the incorrect sound settings, as you can see (or hear) there is no sound at all coming from it. However, despite this problem, i feel the rest of the shot turned out fairly well, the composition within the frame looks good, though perhaps, the subjects eye line could have been slightly lower so they were kept on the horizon one.
We filmed the piece with an aperture setting of f/22, noticeable from the fact that the whole frame is in focus. We tried to keep the shutter speed to same to avoid any blurring, but because of the small aperture we did need to adjust another setting to make sure the exposure of the image was correct. Thanks to the natural light we were shooting in, the image was already fairly well lit, therefore we did not have to alter the ISO too much, just upping it slightly (to around a 400), this avoided us having a grainy image.

One point that can be noted about the piece of footage is the documentary style it adopts, the subject in the foreground is looking directly into the camera breaking the forth wall. This is a technique that is used often throughout the French New Wave library and therefore this footage is maintain a link to our brief. An example of when this technique used is in Truffaut's 400 Blows, the young boy in this film looks directly into the camera on multiple occasions throughout the film reminded the audience that they are in fact watching a fictional piece of work.
As you can see from this screen shot of the ending of the film:

The flats in the background of the footage tells us that we are not in an affluent area of the town, again coming back the realism that is reflected in the New Wave films.