Filming Religious Iconography

Today Chelsea and I filmed our religious iconography. We filmed pages of the bible and some religious pictures we had found. We then took our camera and tripod to a local church and filmed the church and surrounding gravestones.

Additional Ideas

Today Chelsea and I watched what we have filmed and edited so far. We realised that we did not have enough footage to last two minutes. This means we now have to film some more footage to make it last the needed time. After many discussions we decided that we could film some religious iconography. This would then give us enough footage to last two minutes whilst reinforcing the religious theme of our production.

Editing

Today we started editing our footage together. We found that our end product will not follow our storyboard too closely as we found a our footage looked better if it followed a different sequence. We have managed to edit roughly half of our footage and plan to do the rest very soon.

Downloading our footage

Today we bought the camera back into school so we could download our footage onto the macs. Once we downloaded the footage onto the macs we imported it into finalcut. It is now ready for us to edit in the near future.

Filming Part Two

Today we continued our filming. As Chelsea featured in the scenes we filmed today I was in charge of the filming. I filmed an extreme close up of Chelsea's eyes and also a high angle shot of Chelsea. I filmed these shots numerous times so that we had plenty to edit from.
I then filmed the rosary beads in Chelsea's hand. We had to make sure when filming the rosary beads that we managed to capture the fake blood dripping off it as this was a scene which we really wanted to include in our final piece.

Filming Part One

Today we managed to hire out a camera so we began the filming process. As Chelsea is starring in the production and I am not we decided that I'd be in charge of filming the scenes Chelsea were in and then we would share the filming of the shrine.
Today we decided to focus on the filming of the shrine. We filmed the shrine up close and from a distance. We also panned across it in several directions. We made sure that we did shots multiple times and from different angles so we have plenty of footage to edit from. It took us about an hour to film all we needed of the shrine.

Making Our Shrine

We had originally planned to film today but unfortunately there was no cameras available. Despite this we still set up our shrine so when we did get a camera we could start shooting straight away.
First of all we put our fire guard in an area in the room where there was good lighting. We then sellotaped pictures onto the fire guard. We sellotaped them on in a rough fashion as we thought this would be fitting of our main character. We then put some religious items infront of the shrine to bring in the religious theme. Finally we placed some candles near the shrine so when we film there is a sinister flickering.

Our New Idea

After many discussions we have come up with the idea of having a shrine filled with the pictures of Christie rather than a wall. This new idea now means we have more than enough pictures which is a positive as we didn't really have enough time to take more. We shall make a shrine by sticking our pictures on a fire guard like the one pictured below. We have also decided against using the religious quote on the a3 paper as it is simply too big to fit on our shrine.