Fast tracking shot Inspiration

This shot was inspired from the song 'stuck in slavery' ending. The song was sang by two un-signed rappers named 'ard adz' and 'shallow'. Whilst watching the song as a group, we realised that the ending shot was very catchy and thought of putting it in our short film. on the second filming day, we tried to preform this shot. both of our group members had a try and actually we thought it turned out to be very good. when we got back to the mac book pro, we inputted the video taken and however when fast forwaded, it didnt turn out to be as good as we thought as we tilted the camera too much whilst walkin, and the camera was shaking too much. Hnce, we even had a second try on the next filming day and we decided not to tilt the camera whilst walking. when we got back to the area, we saw the footage that we filmed and it turned out to be very good. Hence the music video that we watched in our group turned out to be useful and inspiring to our media group.



Here is the video where our group was inspired to do the 'fast tracking' shot. The shot is on 2:42s and is approximately 2 seconds long.





Here is our fast tracking shot which we done. We thought it turned out good after practicing how to do it on the second filming day. Although it took us time and effort to do, our group was willing to put in the commitment to create a better ending of the film with this fast tracking shot.

Filming diary 2

On the second day of our filming diary, we were also required to wake up early at 6:00, s we had to get to our location which would approximately take 50 minutes from were our group meet. We took notes with us, on what we need to film, and also what shots we have to film again from our last filming diary. Many of the shots were of the protagonist however we filmed some 'cctv' shots and the 'deal' shot. We left the main shot to last, the shot where we reveal the protagonist as a runner with his running ttrainers and his 2012 olympic shirt.

Feedback from rough cut film

After showing the rough cut of the beginning of our short film, we good some very good feedback from our audience. 5 people agreed to watch the film and give us some feedback on what they think, and how they think it could be improved. All the pparticipants claimed that the shots and angles were very good in term of our genre of the film. The also loved the location that we filmed in and the character used to be the protagonist, they said these two factors suit the genre of the film the most. They even claimed that they havent even as good shots as we used in any other A2 short film! However, 2 people said that they didnt really understand the plot of the film and what it is leading to, they advised us to change some shots in order to lead the audience in what you want them to think. They claimed if we do this, it will be one of the best twist they have ever seen from a paddington academy group of A2 students!
After we gathered this information, our group had a intense discussion in what shots to change in order to 'make the audience think what we want them to think', as one of the participants said. We came up with different ideas within our group of which shots to change and even thought about changing the order of the shots to make the twist better and create more tension into the 'hoodrat', which later in the film reveals that hes a 'runner'.

In adittion, we also created a survey from asking students from our school, what they think about footage and how do you think it could be better. We had many useful results such as; some students said that we should use the grey scale as we predicted to use in the film planning. also some students said that we should make the protagonists look more serious to create tension in the short film and so it does not reveal the twist in the film. however, most student said it was very good and if we keep working at this rate, we will hopefully recieve a greate grade in our a2 media coursework!

Rough cut of our short film