Filming Process

Filming Process
The filming process was the easiest to execute to be honest, as it meant waving a camera around and there we go I have the shots. Ok maybe not quite like that, but it was way easier than the animation process, and more fun, that is why my piece has more physical film than animation in it. On the plus side I invited my friend around too to do the moves so, we spent the day together.

I had two locations that I filmed in, One being my back garden where I filmed the singular move shots, The other being my Tae-kwon Do class.

The first shots that I filmed were in my back garden, where I used a Canon 700D DSLR along with my tripod, however, I used the tripod as a mono pod because I had to navigate around my garden which had a few uneven surfaces as well as a pond that I had to negotiate . I decided I wanted to film the shots out side because there was the most amount of space, plus it meant that I did not need to have lights set up as it was a bright day with a thick layer of cloud that meant the light dispersed evenly making the shots bright with out needing extra equipment.  If I had filmed inside there would not of been enough space for the high kicks and other action shots, and I would of needed lots of lights as it was fairly dark inside comparatively.
I made the set by combining three bed sheets I originally wanted the background to all be black, however I only had one black bed sheet so I decided to go for a bit of a weird design in that the top half was black and the bottom red. To do so it meant pinning up the bed shit on to something luckily for me my dad had been making a veranda which did not have a roof on yet so I pinned the sheet to the wooden support beam that went across the top, Then I noticed that you could see through the sheet, so I then put one of the red sheets behind the black giving it  more solid colour, and also stopping it from being see through. I then draped the other red sheet over some wood that was lying around and then made it flat on the floor filling up the bottom of the set. The wind gently blew the sheets too which was a bonus as it added to the final effect.
Then in post edit I will zoom in to remove most of the stuff out side of the scene. 
I  got my friend to come round and bring his full Dobok(the white suit) and perform the moves for me .
We used simple instructions for communication such as "recording" when I started recording then "1, 2, 3, go" to signal when he should move at which he left a second between go and him moving so that their was some room for editing, then he would perform the move and stay in the last position, at which point I would wait a couple of seconds again for editing then say "cut" and stop recording.  

For my second set of shots I filmed in my Tae-kwon Do class where I wanted it to be as raw as possible, so I simply asked my instructor if he could run the class as normal and I could film like I was not even there.
I only had one chance to record the shots that I needed from the class because I didn't want to take up much of the classes' time, and also I want consistence of who was there or not as the case may be. Speaking of people who were not there, I was politely asked by a couple of people to not be filmed, so I made sure I was filming at angles, so that meant they were not in the shot. This proved quite easy  as their was only two people that didn't want to be filmed, and they were right at the end of the line, so I just filmed from where they were which meant that they weren't in it.
As I only had one chance to film it meant that I could not get any experimentation in with the colour balance, lighting and angles, so the shots do have a bit of a yellow tindge but I can fix that easily in post production using colour grading built in to 'Premiere.'


I used the same camera set up as the first set of shots however, I did not use a tripod or mono pod this time, as the case may be becasue it was too big to take to the class, plus the set up would of made me more apparent leading to the students staring into the camera detracting from the raw feel I was aiming to achieve.