Slow Motion Trial 1

We had done some research on slow motion adverts and we really liked what we saw. In our advert we wanted to have something different, we didn’t want to have a dull and boring ad, where it just states the facts and figures, we wanted to have some action in it. So we decided that we would have slow motion shots of us throwing coffee beans around and shots of us diving to dodge them. The only problem was that in the ads we watched the slow motion equipment they were using was very expensive. The school didn’t have that kind of money to pay for equipment like that, so we had to test what it would look like on a normal camera when we slowed the shots down on a Mac.

This first testing is done in one of the classrooms in school; we wanted to test the green screen as well as the slow motion camera. For this we used a Real Time Footage Camera and simply slowed the clips down on the Mac.

In this clip, we used paper balls to act as the coffee beans for when we filmed for real, to see whether the camera could pick them up when they were flying through the air.

Looking back at the footage we got, we were disappointed, because the slow motion just wasn’t good enough. The quality of picture when the clips were slowed down was really poor and when any sudden movements were made they would look blurry. We weren’t sure whether anything could improve the quality, but we thought that one possibility maybe the lighting, so we made plans to do another testing day.