Synoptic Day

Our synoptic day was a full day of media, where our group planned to get all our filming done.
We made a plan for the day so our group aimed to get all our filing done.

Considering that the Bunglow, one of our main locations, was only in use after lunch we planned to get all our flashback scenes which were filmed in the DT corridor done before then. Our aim was to have all the flash back scenes filmed before lunch so we were able to film the scenes in the Bunglow in the afternoon.
We were sucessful in our plan and managed to stick to it, getting all our filming done.

This meant that we had to leave at school at around 5 in order to get all the fliming done. We were unable to get any editing done considering that we did not have enough time.

We filmed all our footage on synoptic meaning it was a useful day.
however when we editing the next day we saw that alot of the filming we done was wrong and could not be used. many issued accured such as lack of continuity as well as scenes not flowing and problems in the narrative.

I believe that Synoptic day was useful because it gave us a chance to see what we had to refilm and how to improve our film

The problems we encountered during this shot was the clutter in the background. Eventhough the female character was the centre focus the background seemed unrealistic as she began to Garden, there was also the fact that she was gardening in the middle of the garden whereas the more appropriate place for gardening would be on the side.




With both these shots we encountered the same problem, this was that the framing of both shots didnt seem to match up together. The normal evryday shot in comparison to the the flashback of that particular scene did not seem to match up together. Therefore we had to re-shoot once more, trying to capture the right frame in order for an effective flashback.



We felt we had to re-shoot this scene because the zooming in of the window was seen to be not natural to the eye, therefore we had to re-shoot by trying to avoid the zooming in shot.

Testing Shots

For out testing shots we used me as a way of seeing if the scenes we had planned worked. We needed too see a rough idea of our story bored.
We got the testing shot done before the synoptic day, so we were able to get the final shots done on that day.
By doing the testing shots we could see what techniques we had to use and we got a good idea of our location. We also knew what props we had to bring in for synoptic day. From the testing shots we could see that many of the shot we had planned did not work and therefore which ones we had to change.

TESTING SHOTS UNCUT VERSION

house test shot

we wanted to see what this shot will look like, when we zoom in, whether it will be successful. we had some problems with the camera being unstable, it ended up being very shaky. also we need to change the location as there was a lot of cars passing by. In our filming we will use the bungalow instead.

Mirror Test Shot

We wanted to check if it was possible to film a character looking into a mirror. We thought it might be difficult to avoid having the camera in the shot. This didn't happen on the test shot but we were using a big mirror with a lot of space to position the camera. We'll probably have a smaller mirror so will need to use a tighter shot - a close-up not a mid-shot.

Testing shots

Our group started our testing shots on Thursday, we encountered a few problems before hand as the the setting in which we wanted to film was unavailable therefore we had to try and film other shots in order to make use of our time.