Our Ident Shoots

After we uploaded our videos we went through all the clips we shot to see what looks best and what went wrong. Looking at the videos some are ruined by a flash from a camera as Louisa was taking pictures when we were in the studio so this effected our videos as the studio lighting automatically connected to her camera and set it off through some of the videos. I noticed when filming that the flash effected the video so every time she took an image i stopped the video straight away and started again. This is why we have so many videos. However, we have quite a few good videos. In my opinion i think letting the balloon rotate naturally looks the best, even though it is slow, it looks good but we can edit the video to make it faster so it is not a problem. I also like the shot where Kayley is holding the balloon at the bottom and slowly lets it go up to the top of the room.

This is an example of one of the videos that got ruined by the flash. It may not be one we would of used for our final ident however this is just an example of how the flash effected the video. 

Filming

Last week, we bought our blue number 2 balloon and went into the studio to film our ident. At first we had a little trouble with groups going into the studio as we weren't organised and didn't ask to use it first however because our balloon wouldn't last until the next week, one of the other groups let us go first. We went into the studio and film the balloon spinning around, blowing in the wind (using the fan) and many other ways. We decided to do lots of different things to the balloon so we had a choice of what looked best. We took videos of the balloon from different angles, views and distance. We also used the studio lighting in studio to create a shadow of the number 2, we only decided this when we saw it created a number 2 on the back wall, and we thought it would look quite good. We experimented with the lighting as we were going to use colour backdrops to tint the colour of the light reflecting on the balloon. However the tinted lighting didn't work very well as it wasn't a very strong, bright colour and didn't look very good. Overall we took 27 videos.
We decided to go into the studio as we could control the space. We had full control on how the video would look. Where as if we were to go outside we couldn't quite control the lighting and how the balloon was moving. I feel our decision to work in the studio was a good idea as it was warm and we wouldn't rush it because we were cold. Also working in the studio, we were able to choose the background we wanted however we choose to stick with the plain white background so the blue balloon would stand out more. We were able to choose the lighting effects in the video, and we got experiment with this so this was a bonus because we could try out different colours, even though we never used them in the end. We were also able to create a windy effect by using the fan. By being in the studio we were able to do majority of the stuff we could create outside.