Shooting Our Second Scene

Our second scene was shooter than our first but it included dialogue which meant we needed to bring more equipment. It was a morning scene so we turned up on set (our friends house) early that day. We wanted to make the most of the morning light so we began filming as soon as possible. We followed the story board, capturing shots and spontaneous shot ideas until we got to the dialogue scene. This was a conversation between the younger brother, Jason, and his older brother, Michael as he went out to work. 

 

To ensure our productions high quality finish, we used the shotgun microphone I talked about in a previous blog to record the characters dialogue. It was quite simple because the mic plugged straight into the camera using an adaptor. Then we got our friend to hold the microphone above the characters but out of shot using a microphone stand, recording their audio in sync with the visu al being picked up by the camera.