A time lapse refers to a technique that photographs a naturally slow process, such as plant growth, on movie film at intervals, so that continuous projection of the frames gives a speeded up view of the process. I wanted to use this shot in order to show time passing during the exam, and in order to explore Marks inner feeling of jealousy and misery through the voice over whilst the shot is happening. This was definitely the most difficult shoot. Before I shoot this shot I did research into a ‘Time Lapse Shot’ some websites talked about DSLR and some talked about an intervalometer, as they were using all these complicated words and tools and software’s I never understood what they were talking about and how to do a time lapse shot. I spoke to my teachers and the film maker but I still never fully understood how to do it. After speaking to my class pears, one of the students Mehdi Idrissi told me that in his camera he had a time lapse button, he gave me a tutorial about how to use it; it was simple you just press a button and that’s it, at this moment I was ready to do this shot.
However, I realized that since I was shooting on a different day I needed to have continuity, the extras would obviously be wearing different clothes.
Within this shot I never needed to use the entire cast of extras, I only needed the final two rows. (as you can see in the image)
In order to overcome the problem of continuity, I made a thread on facebook asking the extras if they would be kind enough to be involved in the film again and if they could wear the same clothes (in the thread I provided a clothes description of what each individual was wearing).
Since everyone’s school time table was different (some may have started school after break, period 4 or even period 5), so I needed to organize a time were everyone was in school, in my head I had rough idea of when they were free I suggested to them the 25th November at break time, I was lucky yes (they will do it and the time was good)
I had lessons period 1 and period 2, so I asked my sociology teacher if I could leave 10 minutes early in order to organize the room so the tables and chairs were in the same place, I managed to do this successfully. It was now 11:00, none of the extras were here , time was running, all the extras came around 11:04, Medhi came around 11:06 (I needed Mehdi because I needed he’s camera I also needed him to support me whilst doing this shot) . Everyone was here except Dylan the main character, he text me saying ‘Really bad traffic man . Get everything ready so we can start straight away’ everything was ready except him. He came at 11:10, giving us 10 minutes to shoot. When he came we were ready to shoot, we did the time lapse shot from the right angle, we also did a zoom in a shot which I forget about, and we were also very pragmatic we did another time lapse shot from the left. Despite the fact that Harry (person sitting next to Dylan) was wearing a brown jumper, overall it was a successful day and I managed to get my shots plus more.
How to do a Time Lapse Shot (the most difficult shot in the world)
The process i went through when doing the shot:
1 Time Lapse Begins
2)Press the time lapse button on the camera.
3) When pressed Direct the 1st extra on the left to walk out of the frame, and then direct them to walk back in the frame (back in sit). Do the same thing for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th extra.
How did I direct them:
When I called their name out they walked out of frame, when their out of frame I called out their name again and they walked back in frame (in sit).
Continuity problem
As you can see Harry the extra is wearing a white t shirt in the first time we shot this scene (because we never managed to the time lapse we had to do another day), to overcome the problem of continuity I sent a facebook threak asking everyone to wear the same clothes (I provided a description of what they were wearing) Harry forgot s you can see when we did the time lapse harry is wearing a brown t shirt.
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