Shoot day: Title Shot Board

During the shoot day, I took charge of noting down a quick, sketched diagram of a title shot we had completed so we wouldn’t repeat this shot and had it documented.

Between my group and I, we filmed about 16 different title shots. For instance, we mostly captured different shots of the keys and light bulbs, including close up shots and extreme close ups.

Our only drawback was sometimes completing a focus pull involving a filament light bulb, as it was difficult to capture a steady and smooth focus. We had to set the camera to a low motion setting because of this. However, this made it easier for us to capture the sharp shot in clear detail and gave us a bit more time to shoot it properly. Due to setting the camera to this setting, we found we only had about three seconds to capture it. We tried many times but I felt it was good and effective practice for other shots.

Each title shot of the keys, we purposely made these shots 30 seconds each so we weren’t short of footage and we had safe shots for editing.