Camera & Film Workshop

To help with research, our media class went to a camera & Film Workshop. We learnt new information and ideas from someone called Robert Foster who had helped with filming on The Bill and Hollyoaks. The workshop included him explaining his own experiences and giving the group helpful hints on camera work and lighting. He had brought along his own camera which was a high range one which although I will not be using such a advanced camera to film my trailer, the techniques that he showed us were very useful and can help me to produce my horror trailer. We learnt about different ways that lighting can help you to produce the right scene you want such as adding a sheet over the light to make it more balanced and change the perception of what time it is when you're filming. He also told us about positioning for the lighting and how changing it can change how you view the character. With this, he also told us about different techniques with the camera we could use such as positioning it in different ways to show a character being a victim (by filming upwards to the character) or making them a villain (by filming downwards to the character). Over all the work shop was beneficial and helped me for getting prepared for filming. Robert Foster also talked to us about continuety and how this is important to keep a film looking consistent. With my trailer I will need to make sure if I have a scene which I am shooting on different days, I make sure I keep things consistent and looking the same in order for it to not impact my trailer.