Test Footage Explaination

We decided to film test footage in order to get a better feel of different aspects of filming for the opening scene of our film. We also learned where we could potentially have gone wrong when actually filming for our film and therefore eliminated any mistakes, therefore the test footage formed as a sort of practice footage for us. We realised that by filming portrait on an iPhone created black lines and limited the amount of video you could actually see, therefore, from this we learnt that if we were to film on an iPhone we would need to film landscape rather than portrait. We then went back and filmed certain parts of our test footage again to correct where we went wrong.

In filming our test footage, we used camera angles and techniques which proved to work well for the effect we are going for in our thriller opening scene. We created some good shots and come up with a few that we are certain we can use in the opening to our film. Even though we did not go to the location we are going to film at, we went across to one of the possible locations when location scouting which was Shenfield Common as it is still a wooded area and creates a creepy effect. However, when filming for our actual film, we will be sure to go across to Thorndon to film the opening.