Starting Shoot
Shoot Plan
Proposal given in on paper for confidentiality reasons.
Plan: For my first shoot I plan to get a series of moving image clips at Drusillas Zoo of various different animals there. The design of the displays I am intending to use will require my clips to be portrait (or atleast cropped down landscape). My ISO will need to be an average of 400, my F.stop around 6 to achieve the depth of field and my shutterspeed around 800 to prevent motion blur. These setting will be weather/lighting dependent but they are the general average I will need to use. I will take two lenses to change between. For relevance to the project, I will also try to take clips of animals who are from the amazon rainforest or other rainforest areas at risk. Equipment: Camera, Tripod, Waterproofing, Lens (18-55), Zoom Lens (70-300) Premiere & After Effects (post production) Health and Safety: Wet weather will require waterproofing for both the camera and photographer (me). Keep all equipment outside the animal enclosures when not in use. Equipment only used in enclosures when permitted. |
Clip Contact Sheets
Clips handed in on USB.
Editing
For editing these clips, the steps I followed are: 1. Switched the dimensions of the clip and rotated it 90 degrees, changing it from landscape to portrait. 2. Cut the clips down, removing the unnecessary still parts of the clip. 3. For some clips, I sped up or slowed down parts of it to get the clip to the required length. 4. Finally, I removed the audio from the clips since it wasn't needed for the project. |
Final Clips
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Shoot Evaluation
The clips I have produced in this shoot fit the brief perfectly and I intend to use them as final clips. The lighting is adequate and the length of the clips are ideal for the short advert-eqsue style I want to achieve.
However, in the future, I would like to use a sturdier tripod to prevent the shaking caused by the wind that affected the quality of these clips. It would also be useful to get shorter clips rather than longer ones that require editing to become shorter, as the editing could not produce a smooth cut in the clips.
However, in the future, I would like to use a sturdier tripod to prevent the shaking caused by the wind that affected the quality of these clips. It would also be useful to get shorter clips rather than longer ones that require editing to become shorter, as the editing could not produce a smooth cut in the clips.