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Thursday, 15 December 2011

Risk Assessment

For our filming there may be some risks on location, however these are minimal risks, there are several tripping hazards as for the most part the room will be very dark, however as the film is inside one room without any overhead hazards or anything on the floor, minus the wire for the camera and the spotlight, there are few risks in the room and when we aren't filming the main lights in the room will be on to avoid any possible hazards in the room.

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Props and equipment

Equipment we'll need include:
HDV1000, this is a HD filming camera that we used last year for our individual media projects. We will also be using a uni directional microphone for the recording of the conversation in the hospital room as the rest of the audio will be recorded in the pro-tools studios at our college so they will be of higher quality and we will have a wider range of effects to use on them to make them sound distant and echoed.

Props we'll need include;
A candle lamp, with a separate spotlight to illuminate the room without showing off too much of the walls or floors etc. and we'll also need two, almost identical notes but with different text on them for one of the shots. As well as a hospital bed and a "get-well-soon" card with "Mind Over Matter" written on it and some flowers for the bedside.

Lighting



This is a video of our different attempts at various lighting techniques. We tried using different coloured lights to find the best light for detail in low visibility without loosing too much area.
  From our experimenting we've decided to use natural coloured strong-focused lights to give a clear detail without loosing too much area.
Our lighting is now focused around using the reflective ceiling of the room we are filming in and the non-reflective floor to create enough light without focusing it onto the subject, to make it appear as though its coming from the candle, this worked quite well  in our film although some brightening was necessary in Post.