Group: Wilderness Wood Evaluation

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Where and when did we go?
We visited the Wilderness woods in Hadlow down. On the 7th of Febuary, it had previously snowed and was sunny too, making it interesting to shoot in.

What was the purpose?
We went on the reccie to learn how to use the equipment in more depth and also to get a taste of real shooting locations, what shots to use where and so on. This in turn helped us decide what shots and techniques we would use in our opening, which was part of our concept development.

What did we do?
We put together a series of scenes/shots which we were told to involve in order to gain better knowledge of using the filming equipment for example an extreme close up. We were also told we could use more specialist equipment such as the track, the dolly and the boom mic - also to gain further understanding of how filming works and how to film certain scenes.

What worked?
We found that the bright light and crisp sound really improved our shoot, the quality was extra clear because of this. We also thought that the use of slow pans and close ups worked well, it helped give the scenes a more natural and calm feel, despite there being no actual story to the footage we captured that day. Instead we just tested a range of different shots and concepts that we thought we could use in our opening, for example amateur and acted scenes but also actual static shots for example close ups and long shots etc. Doing this has helped us think more about what filming techniques we wanted to use in our opening.

What didnt work?

Apart from the fact that there was no actual structure or story to how we captured the clips, we couldn't fault the trip much. It would have been nice to get more footage purely so we could explore a variation of techniques further, and so that we could add more to the final cut/summary of the reccie. For future reccies we should have a plan to make it easier. Acting some scenes was probably the hardest part, however we have managed to touch this up with the editting, when filming our opening we must be sure to capture as much footage as possible, the more we have the better!