Thursday, 11 November 2010

Filming Process

As I was going on holiday for the majority of the two-week half term and was returning on Thursday 27th we planned to film everything on friday 28th and Saturday 29th. 

Friday we had planned to film a cutaway where the actors are at the bus stop. We wanted it to be filmed in the early evening to show that they were going out to a club/party. However as a group our actors could only film in the morning so we improvised and changed the scene to them in a bedroom getting dressed to go out. This actually worked much better and filming went smoothly.

Saturday we were supposed to film the main scene of our protagonist walking through the park. However an hour before filming was due to take place she told me that she wouldn't be able to make it so we arranged to film on Sunday 4.00

By the time we were all set to film on Sunday it had got too dark and we didn't want to simply film for the sake of it and lower the quality of the film. We had to rebook the camera out but could only get a baby HD. This was actually more suitable for our film as the majority of the filming was handheld and the baby HD was easier to hold steady. 

When we started filming we couldn't get the microphone to work and we were panicking because it was starting to get dark so we just decided to film without and use a voiceover instead which we hope will work well in the editing process.

Filming went very well, as it was the basic shot of our protagonist walking through the park we shot it from several different angles. The layered shot that we were worried about was filmed easily enough and we did a few shots of these then went back to my house to film the rest of the cutaways.

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