Test Footage

As i intend to persue a career in the film industy, I have been doing deep thorough research towards it such as the jobs roles, tasks, responsibilities, qualifications, equipment, techneques, and even industry terms. This has proven to be a great benifit to our group in many ways for example camera techniques, methods of editing and use of equipment such as the dolly.

Yesterday, as we were taking out the camera and tripod, i suggested we took the college dolly as well to carry out some test footage. Through this, we found that the dolly provides a excellent steady shot on smooth flooring but unfortunately not on carpet, grass or pavement.

This could prove to be a problem when it comes to shooting some of our scenes however we will have to improvise to gain the best looking and most professional footage possible.

To the right is a picture of the dolly in which we used and are going to use in our video to creat moving shots.

With this test footage, we also had a go at different camera angles and camera movement which we could choose to use in our video. This gave us a very good idea of which ones look professional and ones that don't along with bad quality ones and ones that attract the attention of the viewer to the camera which is something we need to avoid in order to produce a good music video.