Opening shot of London - Testing

Stop Motion

We had difficulty with the camera focusing when its quite far away from the centre of London due to the zoom not being able to go that far and therefore we had to try another method of creating the opening shot of the sky line of London. Therefore we came up with the idea of having multiple shots being taken on a camera and then sped up in order to make it look like it was filmed rather than individual shots. They looked really interesting and had a great affect with the lights trailing as the camera panned across the skyline in front of us. However on photo setting the camera took images lighter than if it was being filmed and therefore looks more like sunset than dark. That is the only issue in which we found with it and most likely with a little bit of changing done to the video it could be edited in order to make it look darker or a setting changed manually on the camera. We all really liked this idea and will experiment it more by putting it into iMovie and speeding it up in order to see whether or not it is as good as we first thought it may have been.

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We also filmed it after we found what setting it was in order to change the lightness of the camera in order to reveal more of the lights coming from the skyline. We liked the idea of panning the shot across so that we got the Shard in it as well which has now become another iconic land mark from its height and building material. The panning did work and you get more detail from the filming however it is extremely dark in the picture which is something I will have to investigate on the camera in order to see whether or not I change that or not. Also another issue is the distance away from the skyline as the camera cannot zoom in far enough to gain relevant detail which would define the city more however for the zoom it has the quality is at its best. Therefore we may need to investigate more before deciding whether or not filming is entirely the best option overall.