Day 1 of Filming

Day 1 of Filming

Location: Street/alleyway 

Scene: 2

Actor/actress': Robbie and Jess

Today we filmed the second scene of our opening sequence which went well. But we had many issues that we had to clear up and work around. The sister of the wife and the husband were walking down the street putting up missing posters.

What went well:

• All members in the group turned up on time and in the correct clothing ready to film 
• We managed to get all the shots we needed and more using the main camera which was fully charged prior to filming
• As a group we remembered to bring all the props we needed. For example, posters and blue-tac

What issues we had to face:

• The sun was setting during the time when we were filming so it was at an awkward angle and kept getting in the way of our shots. So we had to keep moving the camera and the places where we were filming to make sure the glare of the sun wasn't in the shot or interrupting the vision. 
• The wind was also very strong and we were in quite an open space so you could hear the wind very loudly in the camera footage. This meant that we would have to mute the sound in this scene and put non-diegetic music over the top so the audience wouldn't be able to notice. 
• As this was a public area there were people walking past regularly so we had to keep stop and starting filming so we didn't get them in the shot. I thought it would be more realistic if we did have random people walking past as the characters are putting up posters so members of the public would see it and this would demonstrate to the audience that the public would see it. But as we don't have permission from them we agreed that it would be best not too as we didn't want to get into trouble!
• A member in our group brought in an extra camera so we could film different angle shots at the same time, but he didn't bring his SD card with him so we were unable to use it.
• The tripod we were using only rotated to about 90 degrees so we were limited to the shots we could do as we planed to have one of the characters walking past the camera and the camera would track their walk but it was unable to turn far enough to capture a decent shot.