Promotional material

I was the DOP for our promo team. Overall, the experience of working with my team was quite pleasant. However, I wish things wouldn't have been done so last minute and that the communication between us was a bit better, as I had to miss a shoot day due to being told too late about the filming date when the promo was being filmed and I couldn't move around my shift at work anymore. But I am fairly proud of my work in our trailer and titles.

If I would have filmed the promo I would have suggested to put the letters on the word S.P.A.C.E down on the left side of the frame and left enough room for Jess to put them in the edit.

"Ideally, every shot in a television program should be composed as carefully as a still photograph."(Inman and Smith, 2006) and in a still shot like in our promo that is very easily achievable.

Looking back at the footage I feel like we should have turned the lights up a little bit because even though it supposed to be nighttime it's a bit too dark for my liking. I also wish that I had more time to film with the kid to get the WB in the room just right because its a bit too grey compared to the cutaways we did before the boy showed up. I've reset the WB to suit the hallway lighting but didn't have much time to tweak it too much when we got back to the room. And the whole thing was filmed too late to do any colour correction.

I personally enjoy our titles more than our trailer because there are no cutaways that don't match the rest of the shots.
I'm pleased with my framing as the boy has enough "nose room" as "it's important to allow empty space in the direction the subject is looking."(Inman and Smith, 2006).

Speaking of cutaways, I think there are some really nice shots that I got but sadly we didn't get to use them. I also included our trials with the starry lights and the planets. We really wanted to use the little planet models somehow and then Lauren gave us an idea that we could 'fly' through them, but the effect was a bit harder to achieve and we had a good few tries before we realised that we could use the little rocketship as well as keep it at the same distance from the lens, otherwise it was a bit too difficult to get a good looking shot. As hard as that was, I'm pleased how the shot has turned out in the end.

Bibliography:
Inman, R. and Smith, G. (2006). Television production handbook.

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