Location Stop Framing Photography

We did location photography today, as we hadn't bought in our props to go into the studio. We will be in the studio next Wednesday instead and from now until then I will prepare properly. This will include me: drawing a rough plan of what each image is going to look like, choosing props, choosing camera type, camera position and camera lighting.


Today, we went out in Burton with a Canon 400D and a tripod. We used the manual settings on the camera so we could have full control on what the camera was doing. We used a tripod to keep the camera in the same position and to stop any handshake blur happening. This helped to make the images flow throughout the video as all of the images were in the same position at all times. We went out with the thought off creating videos involving us moving around trees and something at the park. Between Kayley, Louisa and I we produced 3 videos, one on a bench another around trees and the last one on the park.

In the first video, we went to a bench and Louisa moved around the bench in slow movements. We set the tripod to the right angle and height and set the camera to the right apeture, shutter speed and ISO setting, to make sure the image was as good as it could be. We then got Louisa to move around the bench in small steps. However, I think it could be improved as from looking through the images on the camera, Louisa wasn't in the same position all the way round so if we were to do it again we would have to make sure she doesn't make any big movements with her hands or head. For this video Kayley was incontrol of the camera and I was telling Louisa how far to move.

In the second video, we went to the front of college amongst the trees as we thought of hiding around trees. I was in control of the camera this time and telling the girls when to move after i had taken an image every time they moved. Kayley hid behind one tree and Louisa hide behind another and they moved towards each other. We set up the tripod and camera to the level and height we wanted to and the settings on the camera to make the images good. We decided to do this stop motion video behind trees as we had seen other stop motion videos like it and we wanted to create our own version. I think we could improve this motion video by getting a closer view of the video as it looks quite far away and isn't very clear. 

In the last video, we went to the park. Louisa wanted to me to slide down the slide and then move back up the slide. We put the camera in the position we want it to be in and changed the aperture, ISO and shutter speed as we had changed location. It seemed easy at first just going down the slide but it was hard for me to go back up the slide as it was hard to keep myself up. I think this is obvious in the pictures and one thing we could of improved to make it more realistic. We did this as we thought it would be good to watch me going down and then back up but it didn't work as well as we had hoped.