Improving Shooting

Due to the preliminary task we learnt that you have to film everything in one day as the surroundings of the area can change. This makes the audience confused and makes the cut look unprofessional, it also helps making a clean, smooth shot of the scene. When we shoot again we need to make sure the tripod is correctly set up as at some points the camera is slanted from poor set up of the camera. This made it difficult to edit the clips together. For example, as we moved the camera to track the actor walking out of the room, it fell off of the tripod. However to cover this problem up, take more footage which will give us lots of different options to choose from when coming to edit. If it's not possible to control the environment you're filming in then it's best to try to film everything in one day. This highlighted an issue with independent, low budget film making that we will have to plan for in our opening title shoot. Also we recognised that our continuity whilst filming was off so during editing it was difficult to select the clips and piece them together as there was not a continuous flow. This made the editing process longer if this happened to a low budget or a high budget film this would affect the cost as it would take more time to edit causing a decrease of money. If you're producing a film with a low budget like Paranormal Activity, directed by Oren Peli with a low budget of $15,000, time is money and he would have to make sure the rules were applied whilst shooting to decrease the risk of loosing money.