Ancillary Task | Testing Moving Shots

Photo's While Moving
For my ancillary task I want to take pictures of me in action, to crop, and drop onto the same pictures to make it seem as I'm parkouring across the tree. I was originally going to just stop, pose and take the picture then crop, but I found I can do the parkour I want to and get someone to hold down the button and take continuous pictures.
The only problem with this is I will have to get Max, or anyone else who can hold the button down, to be there and take the pictures of me in action. I'm unable to set the timer to take contiuous pictures

Drone Filming | Successful Filming with Max

Me and Max spent around 2-3 hours in Old Catton filming the drone shots, and taking pictures for my ancillary task. I decided to settle with just using the side pan shot with the drone, rather than the 3rd person view, this was mainly due to more and more people turning up in the park. Also, the tree we were shooting next to, was being climbed on by several kids and we couldn't fly the drone with them there. This was fine since the pan shot we filmed was good enough to include in my trailer.

Success/Failures

Drone filming was a big success, I managed to get a very smooth and well filmed tracking shot of me running with the tree in the background. Me and Max lowered the light exposure to make the shot darker, this was so that it would match the brightness of my other scenes.

Although the drone was fine, we did have a slight dent in timing, after a could shots Max crashed the drone and it wouldn't fly. I sorted this problem by simply turning it on and off, this only wasted around 10-15 minutes. Another problem was that after we had been filming for about an hour, more parents and children started walking around the park, and a lot of the kids were climbing the tree meaning we couldn't fly the drone due to safety issues. It would have been nice to see what a 3rd person view would have looked like.

Drone Filming with Max | Rescheduled

From my last post, my plan was to film in Old Catton on Friday 10th, but due to me coming down with a stomach bug Thursday, I was unable to film with Max that Friday. I arranged to film Tuesday 14th with Max via Facebook Messenger. We chose Tuesday because it had the best forecast for the days that Max was available to. Below is our quick clarification of filming

Chris' House | Props/Scenery

Music | Discussing with my brother

Once I have my footage filmed and a rough draft I will be going to talk to my brother, who is currently doing a music course, about him being able to make a track that will fit over my trailer. I will have to have a draft and have close input to what music he is making, since I need it to fit my film and he needs to know what timing and pace the music needs.

Drone Filming with Max

With filming the running scenes in Catton park, I won't be able to fly the drone while running, so I have en-listed the help of my friend Max. I will be directing Max on how to fly the drone, the different angles to do and what type of manoeuvres to use. The reason I'm using Max to film me is because to film myself would mean; I would have to be holding the drone controller which would be in the shot. So I am not unable to pull off filming myself, but it would be logical for someone else to instead
UPDATE: Me and Max has a quick discussion using the Facebook messaging app 'messenger' and organised to to the drone filming on Friday 10th February, since there will only be three different drone shots to do, we should be done with filming in a couple of hours.
With this trip to Catton Park I will also be using this as an opportunity to take pictures of Catton Park to use for one of my ancillary tasks
Me and Mac communicating

Two Poster Drafts

Silhouette of Man

When creating the final poster, I will be using my self as the silhouette, this will either be a picture I've edited before or a cut from a part in the film. For this picture I will edit myself to be running along the path, I haven't decided if it will be; away from the camera, towards the camera, or across the camera, but I will be running on the path rather than levitating across the scene.

Background

The background of both posters is a picture I copied from google images, but when creating the final poster, I will have my own pictures to use in the background. I will go to the same location in the picture, take three different pictures with me on the tree, then edit me going across the tree all into one.