Filming

Today me and my partner started filming for our experimental piece. We filmed in my kitchen as it was the quietest kitchen out of the two we had an opportunity to film in.

For our piece we wanted to make it seem very uncomfortable as we would be cutting from clips of live animals to shots of raw meat being cut up. To do this we placed a white sheet on the counter and put the meat on top. We decided to use a white sheet as we wanted to have lots of blood all over the place when we were handling the meat, creating a more uncomfortable effect. The white sheet then soaked up all the blood which made the piece more visually interesting as it shows the contrast between the plain white sheet and the bright red blood.

To make it even more uncomfortable to watch, we shot a lot of the footage in an extreme close up so that you can clearly see the knife going through the meat. When we edit the piece we will make sure that we have straight cuts from footage of farm animals to clips of the raw meat being cut. We will also layer the clips on top of each other so that you can see both the animal and the steak being cut in the same shot.

We also recorded our sounds today as we wanted to make them as realistic as possible. some of the sounds included throwing the meat onto the counter, cutting the meat, sawing through bone and the squelching of the meat as it was being handled.

To film we used a Canon DSLR as we were both confident in using this type of camera. We also used a Zoom H4n audio recorder as we had both used these in the past and found it the easiest piece of audio equipment to use.

Although we started off using a tripod, we then decided to shoot the rest of the footage freehand as it was a lot easier to use as we were working in a very small space. Another reason we chose to shoot the footage freehand is because the cuts will be very quick as that is the type of film we are going for where it is very fast-paced, therefore it doesn't matter toom much if the camera was slightly shaky.