Test Shoot

The next step of the production was to go on a location test shoot where I needed to experiment with various different types of shots. For the shoot I used a Panasonic 151. In the first video you can see a few different shot methods I wish to use in my final piece.

Test Shoot from Laura Johnson on Vimeo.

I had quite a lot of trouble on the shoot using the depth of field on the Panasonic. To alter the depth of field on this camera I changed the ISO setting, this allows more light into the lens thus giving a higher depth of field. I feel that the depth of field isn't fantastic on this camera, so I have decided to use a Canon 550D for my final piece as the size of the CCD chip will give a look and depth of field that is closer to using a 35mm camera.

I also found that a lot of my footage came out on my iMac quite darkly, I will look at colour correcting this in my next post.