Journal entry 11

Today all four of us in our group travelled up to London to re film the shots that were suggested to us when we showed our class our first edit. These shots included the briefcase exchange, time-lapse and the tilting shot of the mi6 building. We also added in a shot of the Houses of Parliament and the British flag on the top. We felt the flag was very iconic as it is a British film.


For the time-lapse shot we had to film it in a different location to the one we filmed the first one. This was because there was some sort of event at Trafalgar Square which was our first location. Instead, we filmed opposite the Houses of Parliament. Our feedback for this shot was that it was hard to notice me when I walked past the camera with the briefcase. One suggestion was that we should slow down the time-lapse in order to show me walking past the camera. We made sure when I walked past the camera it was relatively clear. The shot was also considerably lighter than the first time we shot it. We also added a completely  new shot which we came up with whilst we were in London. We filmed a shot of Agent X (me) walking along the walkway next to the River Thames from a high angle.


We also began filming our opening scene which was suggested to us by our teachers as our first edit was quite short. Our opening scene was a chase scene. We shot the first two shots of this scene, with Agent X spotting Morgan Freeman (villain) and turning to run. We then filmed Morgan Freeman chasing Agent X down a stairway leading to a car park. We will continue filming of this shot as soon as possible. For this shot we stuck to the characters we had assigned each other for the whole sequence. Therefore, I played the protagonist Agent X and Ghanshyam played the villain which is played by Morgan Freeman.




Here are some pictures of our filming session. Our cinematographers for the day were Ghanshyam and Adam. They both took turns with the camera and both contributed to the filming of all our shots.