Poetic Sequence.

For our poetic sequence we filmed in 'Okeh Cafe', we arranged to meet at nine o'clock in the morning, we met Dee and explained that this was a preliminary shoot and that we would be back for the full documentary soon, thankfully this was okay with her and she even agreed to ask her husband to be in the documentary which was useful for us. For my inspiration we watched the documentary 'Prime'by Ben Wu and David Usui.

http://vimeo.com/35965635

The pictures below are stills from the documentary, i think this shows the style we are trying to achieve, i would like to emphasise strong camera work and use of colour, achieving clean crisp focus on images will give our piece a more professional look. I like the use of interesting compositions in this film, it has inspired me to think more creatively in my cinematography. 

During the filming i feel we achieved some really well composed shots, we had a few hiccups in the beginning as we couldn't get the aperture to match up with the ISO, so five of our first shots were unusable which we didn't realise until we got the footage into the edit, it was slightly dissapointing but we have learnt for next time. We began by trying to thing of interesting ways to open the poetic sequence, as we didn't want to just get a typical frontal shot of the cafe, we wanted the space to feel enclosed and warm. In many ways our first year production sense's of space may have influenced this theme, as the cafe seems to really have a life of its own and we wanted to portray this aspect of the Mod lifestyle in sheffield in our poetic. It helped us practice ways in which to create a sense of space using image and sound, and this will be helpful for some of our other locations as they won't be as easy for us to create this.

One of our major downfalls was the inability to use the tripod on location, we would have been able to use one of the smaller tripods with less difficulty but unfortunately the tripod we booked out was too large for us to use inside the cafe. Again this is one of the things we are aware of now, we did have a shoulder rig which did help but we found it quite difficult to keep the camera steady on high angle shots. 

We captured some really interesting shots, some of my favorite's i have screen grabbed below.

I think from this you can see how we have taken inspiration from 'Prime' but the dark and earthy tones that come across in the documentary didn't suit the vibrancy of our subject for our documentary so we accentuated colour, while still playing around with angles and composition.