Time Lapse Fail

Clare:
We took to our first shooting today and set up the tripod and camera in the courtyard in an attempt to film the time lapse clip, demonstrating people walking to and from class at school. We filmed this clip for twenty minutes and located it quite distanced from the main pathways which, to our disadvantage, meant we couldn't see as many people as we'd hoped walking past and the effect wasn't made up as well when playing it sped up. Because of this, we hope to re-film this clip at a later point, perhaps near the end of the school day or after lunch when it is at it's busiest in this location. We will also move the camera to a different area of the courtyard to show the students moving more directly in the foreground of the camera rather than leaving a large, empty space with them pushed off in the distance, thus making it unclear who they are and what they are doing. Below is the video of our first attempt at time lapse in our school courtyard. As you can see from the video, the angle of the frame is too off balanced with the students walking past, and there isn't enough focus on them. This is something we will improve when it comes to redoing this scene.


Ade: We were glad that we did this first attempt. Mainly because it helped us know how we could improve when we did the next trial. The large area of pace in front of us in the courtyard prevented our overall desired effect to occur. Although there were many students, because there was a large area of open space the time lapse was ineffective. Furthermore, whenever people noticed the camera, they were inclined to alter their behaviours because they were surprised that the camera was there. To conclude, despite the failure of our first attempted time lapse, we want to try again, however with minor improvements such as changing the location to make the time lapse more effective.

Amanda: We think, to test our ideas first is more professional. even though it is time-consuming, in the long run, it saves us lots of time. Also, with this time lapse we could show other people and get opinions on it and constructive criticism.It would have been worse if we had filmed our time lapse, edited it into our trailer then realised how unprofessional and bad it looked with the rest of our clips.