Logging and Capturing

We finished our logging on Friday the 29th January and began capturing the same day.

Logging is the process of watching the footage already filmed and writing down what shots you are going to use, this means you have to take note of:

• The time the shot starts and ends.
• What kind of shot it is.
• Whether it is useful or not.

Before you can edit you also have to capture which involves going on to Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and pressing 'F5' to bring up a 'pop-up' window where you have to manually record the shots you want onto the computer. To make the editing more efficient the group tried to fill out:

• Clip name.
• Description.
• Scene.
• Shot/Take.

Filming

25th January 2010 was the first time our group had gone off site to get a substantial amount of filming done. We went down to a river surronded by trees and a train track right next to it which we thought was perfect for our idea of a fast paced opening sequence for a horror/thriller film. However we were un-organised by not checking the camera battery and ironically the battery did die on us but fortunatly when we returned we found that we had enough shots to prevent us having to go back and film further. From here we needed to log and capture the shots, as well as make a rough edit to see what we were working with.