The Filming Goes On

One 3/11/10, we resumed our filming. On this day we filmed our 'alphabet spaghetti' scenes, foundations written in lipstick through stop-motion scene and the "wind you up" scene. Filming the alphabet spaghetti scenes was particularly difficult (probably the most difficult scenes we filmed) to film as we were using spaghetti letters and those letters had to be positioned (in the bowel they were in, in tomato sauce) in a way which made them stay afloat on top of the tomato sauce instead of sinking. Due to this issue we had to stop filming a few times while we re-positioned the letters. Another problem with this scene was that for a reason unknown to us, the camera would wobble slightly at times and this meant that we had to re-position the camera on the tripod quite a few times.

The 'lipstick in stop-motion scene' was probably the easiest scene to do and it was also different to our other scenes in the sense that we took pictures rather than record the scene with a video camera. Although this scene was the easiest to do, we still experienced a minor issue when we took this scene. When we did this scene, every time we wrote a letter, we had to take a picture of that letter and then so on every time we wrote the other letters. The minor issue arose from the fact that we had to keep the stills camera (positioned on a tripod) completely in the same place to keep the stop-motion effect consistent other wise if we had not then when we edit the footage, it would not have looked like 'flowing' stop-motion.

For the "wind you up" scene we bought a wind up Frankenstein toy. In this scene we wound up the toy and we then had it move/'wind' towards the camera while we filmed the action. We also took a number of other shots such as a long shot and a wide shot. The only problem we had filming this scene was that the wind up toy was frustrating to control at times because when it was wound up, sometimes it had a tendency to veer off the straight line of course it was meant to go in.

Overall, the day went well and we were able to get good footage. For our next filming session we will be filming the 'lemon' and 'surprise' scenes in the media production room and we will also be using the green screen during the filming.