Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This is the camera we used to film our opening titles, it is a Nikon D5500 and has a lot of advantages when it comes to filming. The first is the rotating screen, it has an advantage for filming low angles where you just tilt the screen back.

The other advantage is the quality of the camera being a 24.2 megapixel camera and shooting film in HD.

The manual focus is a huge advantage allowing us to focus on certain areas and change during filming. To get good shots you’ll need to have a stable hands, we used a tripod to get the smoothest shots especially for the tracking ones we used.

This camera has a lot of different settings on it to use for filming and photos. However we decided it would be best to use the automatic setting, circled in red on the picture to the right. By using this setting, it allowed the camera itself to adjust the iso, aperture and shutter speed to the perfect setting.

We thought about the composition a lot in our thriller opening, using a lot of the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds makes the shot look more interesting than having the main focus placed in the middle. By placing the objects to the side I am giving title room.

When we were out filming we had to take into consideration the weather, the time and the public. If it was raining we could not go out and film as we didn’t want any scenes in the rain. We also didn’t want to get any of the equipment wet and risk it breaking. Before we planned going out we would look at the weather forecast to see when was a suitable time to film. We also needed to get good shots in daylight so we could edit them later if we needed to and they’d still be good quality. If we filmed later on in the day, the quality would have decreased a lot making it more grainy. We had to take this into account and so got up early to film.

When we were filming we had to take into consideration the public when doing stunts, especially when we did the hanging scene. This can distress people and cause panic towards the public, this is why we filmed in a place where there weren’t many people.

Techniques used with this camera
Manual focusing was the number one technique we used during filming, keeping the foreground focused or even changing focus whilst recording.