Have you ever felt the need to film paper boats at half ten at night?

Today has been a full on filming day.
Good news! I got the charger for my laptop from Amazon and I can finally do all my editing and stuff again! YAY!

I was also able to start filming again.
So today I first did some filming today for my film studies project, a group of us went down to my lovely estate to do some fighting bitchiness action. Im loving my film studies project at the moment! Not to mention I AM SO LUCKY that i've got two other talented people that are working with me. I swear if it wasn't for Jess in our group - it wouldn't be half as good as it's looking at the moment!
As for the other guy in our group (Daniel) - He's like a beast with the stedi-cam!
So anyway - yeah - filming was fun with that today - now we only have scene left to shoot and one scene let to re-shoot.

We were going to try using a dolly for the shots (not that we needed it because of Daniels stedi-cam shots) but the pavement was just a little bit too bumpy :(






Origionally, we where going to film this scene around the corner but there where so many cars and loads of people parked in corners. It just kind of ruined the scene and if one of them where to move then we'd have SO MANY continuity errors that I just cant be asked to deal with!

But to be honest the confined space, the darker lighting... it just fits so much better with whats going on in the scene - super glad I thought of it now :D










BUT THATS NOT ALL!
Like I asked, 'Have you ever felt the need to film paper boats at half ten at night ?'. I did. I literally JUST DID.

So this peuce of filming was for my music video for Media studies - I have literally spent the last few weeks just making paper boats! I have paper boats coming outta my ears!

For this shoot I wanted to get a studio kind of shot.
In an ideal world i'd have a glass tank with a white back ground and lots of awesome lighting! But in my world... I have a bath and and a flash hotshoe - but to be honest both probably give similar effects and work just as well.


(A few boats I made for the shoot)

While I was filming, I thought it would be cool to put a bit more depth into the frame...
SO. I added black paint to some bottled water and while the paper boats were afloat I splashed it with the black water. It just made the whole thing seem more artistic!

Some of what I used to splash the paper boats with the black watery paint.

This is basically what I had for lighting - but it worked really well in the dark. I love this flash because of the shadows it creates!

This is the kind of shot I was filming - I do love this kind of dark, artistic, eerie lighting.
To be honest - I just love lighting!








Speaking of black paint - yesterday I did some INK filming!

This wasn't for anything specific that I'm filming - this could be used for anything im working at the moment!
I will probably use it for the music video...
and maybe the short film for film studies.

 I basically just poured in different inks and food colourings and things like that and filmed all sink and flow to the bottom of the jar.
I first did this kind of shoot for my AS photography exam. We had to do a photography shoot for it in class and I thought taking videos on my DSLR for overlays for the short video.

So I re-visited it and hopefully I have some better shots than last time to experiment with some overlays : D