Tuesday 20 November 2012

Shutter Speed:Footage

During the course of filming we realised that we could most likely get some good looking tracking shots for use in our New Wave films so we decided to film from a car window whilst it was moving around various locations, although this presented a problem as we would need to first alter the cameras shutter speed before filming otherwise the footage would be too out of focus due to motion blur, so the first thing that was needed was to alter the cameras settings.



This footage shows a tracking shot from a moving car with the shutter speed set at 1/100s which is too slow as while the car is moving everything becomes distorted and blurred, the aperture was set at f/22 while the ISO was set at 1200 so everything was in focus, and the shutter speed was set at a speed that would allow an appropriate amount of light into the camera, however this caused the camera to capture the car movement at a slower rate causing this motion blur to occur.



This footage however shows the movement from the car more clearly, this is due to the cameras shutter speed being changed to a quicker rate of about 1/500s which captured the movement more clearly, also the other settings had not been altered so the ISO was still at about 1200, and the aperture at f/22 so everything was captured in focus and enough light was able to be absorbed by the camera to provide a bright look o the footage.

This footage could also be seen as new wave since it is using innovative camera movements to establish a tracking shot, using a cheap inexpensive and moderately effective method that requires almost no budget and it does show the local area where most of our footage takes place.

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