- Nathan Childs
Monday, 10 October 2011
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Problems we faced whilst filming/How these problems were overcame
Wind being picked up on the microphone – Here is one of the classic problems that a lot of people face, and during filming on Monday afternoon we were one of them. Were we were filming fairly high up off the ground; it seems we were the perfect target for wind interference, and a lot of the time when we played back some of the clips the wind could easily be heard. Thankfully these clips were mock recordings to see everything was working fine, so there was no need to delete good footage. We overcame this problem by relocating ourselves to an area which was protected from the wind; we simply scouted around and looked for a place which was nicely sheltered, and where there was no cross wind that would interfere with the camera. When we then found what we thought was a good area, we set the camera up again done a few practise shots, and listened once more to be sure the wind could not be heard. There would also be a backup plan that we could use, if for instance if we were to film everything and then move onto the editing stag, and then notice the wind sound, we could simply turn down the sound of the clip, and make sure the music for the teaser obscured it.
Injuries – This was something we did think about, and we did in fact put it into our risk assessment, but neither Lewis nor I thought we would pick up any injuries, however, unfortunately during a practise run for one of the scenes; I was required to hang on a supporting steel beam, jump down and then go after Lewis. I’d done it plenty of times before, and it was a very simple and safe thing to do, if done properly. I took a slightly complacent approach to the stunt and thought the floor was a bit further away than it actually was, resulting in my foot landing on the ground at a bad angle, and my toe being dislocated and broken. Thankfully the toe has been put back into the correct position by staff at the hospital and is recovering from the break. Although the damage has be done and there’s no real way to overcome this problem we can prevent it from happening again, by being sure that we take even the smallest of stunts very seriously, as they can cause damage. It’s an eye opener for Lewis and I and we will do everything in our power to be sure a repeat of this does not occur when we go back to filming.
Choreographing the fight scene – We already had a fight scene choreographed, however unfortunately it was such a long time ago, that we both forgot how it went. This was quite a big issue as the fight scene was going to be one of the main aspects of our teaser trailer. Furthermore we realised how a lot of the fighting involved someone being chucked down to the ground, which was easy enough when doing it with 4 spongy mats to fall on, however when trying to do it on rock hard concrete it’s a totally different story, we did have plans to take mats from the p.e department and use them, however this would not of worked out of the type of shot we were aiming for, where the floor must be easily visible. We overcame this problem by actually using my phone in order to look at our fight scene over, thankfully I had the recorded fight scene already on my phone, and therefore we could have a look at the video on there, and then re-enact it in front of the camera, we were also able to modify a tweak some of the aspects of the already choreographed fight scene, which meant we could tailor it for the environment we were in.
Public interference - We were filming in a very busy car park so this was one of the things we knew that would happen, we did not want to scare or alert the public in anyway, as we were using weaponry, however we were able to overcome this problem very simply by looking for a more suitable area to film, we simply went up a couple of floors and found a perfectly empty car park and decided that we would do all our filming there, with no disturbances.
- Nathan Childs
- Nathan Childs
Monday, 3 October 2011
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