"Ticket To Anywhere": Single Camera Drama
"Im a one man GPS... that voice on tom tom.. THATS ME!"
Men and women having an argument over directions, happens everyday and in our project. We had to create a scene from the everyday and we decided that a domestic argument is one of the most common everyday experiences.
After a lot of planning we finally came up with our idea and we had decided that we were going to shoot up at the ski slope. Driving around, it took a while to find a place to go but we eventually found a little dirt track right by the slope and we had permission to use that.
The filming took a very long time just because we could only use one camera. and we had to keep going back and forth on this little lane. Because it took so long it also made us loose focus a little bit because we didn't have any main shot list or storyboard with us. I think that filming would have gone a lot smoother and quicker if we had better organisation.
Shooting off site and somewhere quite far out meant that we couldnt really change much of our idea. However we did change some things, such as he driver wasn't a woman it was a man, because in practice it wasn't really working and we also fiddled with the script a little.
When recording the sound we had a separate device so that it would be a better quality and would be a little bit more direct. We used a clapper board to sync the camera and the sound together so it would be easier in editing.
The end film finished alot different to how we thought it would look from the storyboard, but that is only because we found it had to fit everything together to make it look smooth. Because the script was improvised only some of the speeches were the same and of the same speed to we could switch from shot to shot. We also took alot of the shots out because some of them just didnt look right. I like how it finished though, i thought it was very professional looking and it showed me how hard it can be to actually make a film with only one camera and have it all run smoothly.
In one part (when it is gliding along the front of the car) you can see it is very dubbed, but i personally thought it fit and added something to the production.
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