Back up Shots & Extra Footage

One the first day of filming where I would not be present, I made a list of camera shots to use as well as the camera main shots in the storyboard. it is vital that we have a lot of extra footage even though we don't need them since our teacher explained that shortage of footage is a common problem faced every year when filming. So other than repeated shots of the same scenes, we would also do different shots from different angles so that we have covered all filming areas of each scene to make it look realistic.

The first three position of the shots of the main character praying would be the same. Therefore, my group don't need to take shots of her praying from the front, back, both of the side, etc. Just from the the sides. They are also going to do a repeated amount of long wide shot in for these scenes, where the camera does not change framing position.           
But  another 'backup shot' we could do is this as they could the protagonist to be in the center of the shot at all times rather than want to leave a blank space on top of her.

When the camera tilts up, my group would video it from both her back and front-side, despite our main plan to video the camera tilting from her back.

When the camera shows a close up of her face, with her whole head covering the frame. The original and main plan is to do a close up shot of her looking at the mirror whilst doing her headscarf from the side . But as a backup, my group would video the front of her face so she would be looking at the camera whilst doing her headscarf and the back/over the shoulder shot as well.

When she is walking towards the stairs, my group decided to do a long shot of her front side as she walks towards the camera. Another way my group decided to video her walking towards the camera is from zooming in at the beginning as the distance between her and the camera is long, then when she is walks towards the camera we zoom out. This is so we are still able to see a long shot of her when she is in front of the camera. My group would also be doing the same thing from her back for a 'back up shot' but instead of walking towards the camera, she would be walking away from it.

For the kitchen scene, my group would film it at different angels as well as the original for back up shots. Outside the kitchen there is a shot of the main character's front, back and her side of her body as she walks past the kitchen. There is a shot in the kitchen, of the doorway where we see the main character's side of the body as she walks past the doorway of the kitchen.

When my group do a close up of her feet walking down the stars, they would film it in two different ways. One way is by using the fig rig and hold the handle of the fig rig to tilt it down, the other way is by holding the placing the camera on you knee, and tilt the camera down using the hand rather than the fig rig.

Among a few other shots, this would probably be a hard one to video as we struggled with it in our practice shot, therefore my group would do at least 3 repeated shots of this for each of the two method. 

Also, for the stairs scene, my group would film her back as she walks down the stairs, away from the camera (they would film this for the top of the stairs) and then they would film a long shot of her walking down the stairs as she walks towards the camera. Even though there is a high chance we might not use these shots, this is just for back up and for extra footage.

When the character is walking up the alleyway, my group decided to do both the long and midshot of this. Also, they would film her front side and her back side. Two ways to do this: zooming in when filming her back as she walks and zooming out when filming her front as she walks or walking behind and in front of her separately as she walks or just standing in the same position and not zooming in or out when filming.

When she moves her head slightly, we could film this as a separate  mid/close-up shot or film it in the same scene to when she is walking.

My group would use the tripod to turn the camera around from one side to the other when they film from character's percpective. They would first film it all in one go, then another way to film it is one by one with different shots. We would then decide which one looks most effective when editing.

After that they would film from her front, back and both left and right sides when she walks towards the alleyway. Therefore, the character may have to repeat this scene several times. 

When the camera tracks around her, there would be many different ways for my group to film this.
1. One way is by holding the camera and walking around her, filming it all in one shot. 

2. The other way is by filming her front side, then left side, then back, then left and then front again all in different shots.

3. Another way is by using a camera and taking eight different shots of her changing, the method the group are trying to do for this is called the bullet time effect. Therefore, instead of filming, my group would take photographs of her.

This would probably be the longest and most complicated scene to shoot.
 

After the character finishes getting ready, there would be shot from her back as she walks away from the alleyway and a shot from her front side too as she leaves the alleyway and walks to the camera. Then she stops and the a long shot is shown to reveal that she is looking at her brother. 

With the scenes that contains the sibling confronting the main character, there would be an over the shoulder shot. Also, there would be shot reverse shot, as another technique to use for this scene, as this is a common technique used in conversations. We would do a long wide shot of both of the characters from the side, taking in mind the 180 degree rule so the audience would know which side the characters are standing on (this is for extra back up). 

As the brother leaves, only the back side of him leaving is needed to be filmed and possibly his sides as he is no longer seen in the rest of the opening.

When she places everything in her bag, there would be a long shot of the side of her right and left side of her body doing this. There would be a match on cut action and close up of her hand opening her bag, placing the material inside and closing her bag again, this scene (match on cut action) would be done all in one go and separately. This would also be videoed in a long shot from her front side, where she would do it all in one go. And it would be filmed from over her shoulder as the camera looks down to see her put everything inside her bag.