Before Christmas we started practising and trying out new techniques of filming and discovered the best ways to do things such a film moving cars.
We went out during a lesson in November to try out different techniques, we did things such as shaking the camera as we filmed to produce a hand held effect as well as using a tripod to create a steady shot. In our documentary we want to include some shots of moving traffic perhaps of a motor way from a car or looking down from a bridge, we would like to get this shot so that we could write over it with statistics in our finished documentary. So far we filmed out of Josh's car window in order to demonstrate which of these positions would gain the best shot of traffic, soon we will be filming from a bridge in order to compare. We also want to be able to portray speeding in the best possible way by using a mixture of shots, this made us start to experiment with midshots, distance shots and close ups of the car to enable us to make sure we were using the best possible angles.
Thanks to our storyboard we are now aware of the basics of our documentary meaning we are now able to continue experimenting ways in which to film. Filming a moving car is something we focused a lot on to make sure we make the most effective shot we tried filming inside and outside of the car. We have decided to back up our own filming with relevant archive footage, making sure it is current so we can really link it into our project. We will continue this research, looking for better archive footage in order to create the right tone and atmosphere for our documentary. It is strangely difficult to find archive footage as a lot of the footage on the internet is not real or exaggerated, however we will continue our search as it is a very important component.
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