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Steadicam Practice

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Upon discovering that I would in fact have to use the steadicam during filming, I thought I’d better get a bit of practise in. I watched a few videos on YouTube, which as it turns out are fairly unhelpful, and then resorted to just having a play with this new equipment. It took me around 15 minutes to balance up the weights correctly in order for the device to stay steady in my hand. And that’s when I had my dumb blonde moment… I had been charging the battery, so forgot to put it back in the camera. Upon putting the battery in, I discovered this added an extra few pounds to one side of the camera; thus completely throwing it off balance and declaring the past 15 minutes of careful weighing pointless.

But none-the-less, I re-balanced the device and managed to get the hang of handling it. All in a good days work!

Intentions: Animated Storyboard

While I was drawing up the final storyboard, Coupy was putting my drawings into FinalCut in order to animate the pictures and to replicate the camera movements that would be happening in the filmed version of events. The process included taking pictures of each individual shot that was drawn, uploading it onto the editing software and then adding a movement with a likeliness to that of what the camera would be doing in the final piece. On top of this, we added the music that we intended to use in the film opening in order to give a real feel of what the film was likely to look like by the end.

Intentions: Story Board

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At first the story boarding process was taking a long time, but none the less was exciting because we could finally see our ideas coming together properly. After I had finished each page of the storyboard, Coupy would take a picture in order to put it into our animated version.

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The more pictures and captions I got down, the quicker the process became and the easier it was to visualise what shots would look like in real life.

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To be completely honest, the process of story boarding was becoming quite tedious by the end, and I was glad to finally finish after about 5 hours work.

Intentions: Script Version 2.0

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It became clear to Coupy and I that once we got our actors to rehearse the script, the words they said just didn’t sound right – almost too clique.  We also decided to change the acting roles; instead of having a conversation between a detective and a police officer, we concluded that a detective and a neighbour would be easier for us to pull off considering we were finding it difficult to get hold of a police officer uniform.

In addition to these role and conversational adjustments, we also decided to add an extra shot of the main character staring out of the window into the cold morning, in order to add some suspense.