Preparing To Film Our Group Project

For our group project, myself, Chris Johnson and Reuben Bakker-Dyos decided to film the Bath Spa Charity Fashion Show, "Bath Sparkles". We decided on the name, Wrecked Productions as in WRC or Will, Reuben and Chris.

We decided between us that such a vibrant and colourful event, should be filmed from a few different angles so each of us would film from a different angle and then cut it together afterwards depending on who caught the best shots of the scene.

Myself and Reuben manned a Sony Z1 each, that were stationary and attached to tripod's, whereas Chris operated a hand-held Panasonic, which he used to shoot from several different angles and to follow the action:


We gained a client, the Producer of the fashion show, who required a copy of the uncut version for a show night with everyone who took part in the show but also asked for a copy of the final cut, for possible use in the future with the website to advertise the fashion show.

We also prepared for the shoot by watching clips of other fashion shows and looking to see exactly how they are shot. We came to the conclusion that they are very bright, and vibrant and that they often use very quick cuts to keep the pace of the action flowing. Here is a sample of one of the video's we used as research material:

Individual Project: Redefined

After a lot of consideration i decided that because i had been caught short with time and had lost some confidence in the documentary aspect of my project. I decided to can the "Bath Times" documentary and instead film a short instructional video on basic driving manoeuvre's with a target audience of someone looking to begin driving lessons or even prepare for a driving test itself.

I used multiple websites to find detailed instructions of how to perform the manoeuvre's and to obtain detailed images for use in the video. I then asked a friend who has recently passed his test and is still quite familiar with the selected manoeuvre's to perform them perfectly whilst i filmed him. This went very well and i was able to capture them on the first try almost every time. The only problem i ran into was the weather which delayed shooting until the last minute.

I then made an instructional commentary, which was used over the video and added some music to fill in the gaps.