Zara Yaffe

Production Photo Diary - Clock

These screenshots are the raw footage of the clock scenes in my opening title sequence. Although this first seemed like an easy task for me, I immediately faced challenges with filming this footage.

Firstly, the clock was so high up that I couldn’t see the screen of the camera whilst filming. This lead to unfocused footage that was barely even readable. To overcome this problem, I had to stand on the table while holding the camera to film the clock ticking. This then created another challenge while filming. I could have easily fallen off the table which I was stood on. Because I didn’t know I was going to have to stand on a table, I didn’t write this risk on my risk assessment which could have caused yet another challenge had I have fallen off and potentially injured myself or broken property of equipment.

Secondly, once had begun filming when stood on the table, the tripod was not tall enough to reach the camera at the angles I wanted to record and so I had to hold it. Holding a camera causes the footage to be shaky and unreliable in a way. I could not rely on my footage being immediately suitable and what I was anticipating because I did not know whether it’d be too unstable or wobbly. Due to this, I had to view every single recording after I had done it and review each one to see whether it was useable for my opening title sequence if not. Not only does this waste time which is unnecessary, it’s also more work to do that is needless had I had a taller tripod. All of my footage of the clock was therefore wobbly and so I overcame this problem by editing out the shakier, unstable parts on the editing software, Adobe Premiere, by shortening the footage to try to keep the professionalism to the highest point I possibly could.

Thirdly, I had recorded some footage from further away, rather than the close up shots I used in my opening title sequence. This footage was almost useless as it was not clear and was too unprofessional to be used in a project in which a main aim was the aspect of professionalism. I did not even edit this footage because I knew that it was useless and could not be used whatsoever. I deleted this footage. This, again, used time as well as effort that was unneeded. I feel that although I had a handful of problems filming this footage, the clock in my opening title sequence creates tension against the audio I have chosen and creates the atmosphere I was hoping for with the slow ticking of the clock and the fast audio. The clock really enhances the thriller genre I was originally anticipating.

Zara Yaffe

Zara Yaffe