Filming Issues

When we were out filming on Monday we filmed the production on an ISO Setting of 3200, this meant that we were able to keep the lights fairly low, when viewing the clips we had taken on the camera’s screen it looked extremely effective and very professional, however when uploading it into our editing software and viewing it on a larger screen the footage was very grainy/noisy and looked awful, we tried to place our footage into Adobe After Effects and remove the noise in the clips, however this took hours to render a 3 minute clip so was very unrealistic to do and it also still didn’t give us the crisp, effective looking footage we were after.

We then decided to contact the farmer and ask if we could possibly have another day in the barn to re-film our video, he was very understanding and allowed us to do this.

Because we had researched as to why we had grainy footage, we knew we had to increase the intensity of the lights and have the ISO below 1000, we set it on 800 as this gave us the clearest picture, we were also able to re-film it very fast and very effectively, we also decided to take the Macbook Pro with us and then we were able to do tester shots whilst we were setting up and then put them onto the editing software and watch it through to make sure it looks as professional as we had hoped.

Becuase we filmed the narrative on Monday in the woods, all that footage was clear and looks effectise so we decided to not film the fireworks/bonfire night in Thurlby on Tuesday, we felt we had enough narrative to fill our video, we also felt it would be very hard to capture what we wanted because we knew it would be very dark and would find it hard to light our shots sufficiently enough to see what we wanted.