Filming Journal - Main Task

In this blog post I will be explaning the process we underwent and the problems we encountered and how we solved them during filming.

The Day -

Our chosen day of filming was Saturday Janurary 14th. We met at 3pm at the chosen location, we chose this time as we wanted it to be starting to get dark to add a more realistic effect to the shots.

Our first shots were taken in the car park. We managed to get the perfect angle first time round however, we had to take the shot 3 times. The first shot was too blurry as we hadnt focussed the camera properly so we adjusted the camera lens and tried again. The second two shots were good but we took extra just to be safe.

The next stage of our filming was in the wooded area. The first shot in this section was 'Patrick' walking his dog and 'Evangeline' following him. This only took one take as the lighting was good, the actors were well prepared and followed instructions clearly. The shot in this section which took the longest to film was the shot where 'Buddy' followed 'Evangeline' into the woods. This took 4 attempts to film and required myself to be on set to get him to move into the correct spacing. This meant Maryam had to be camera person and director. This also meant that i was slightly in shot at the end however, we knew we would be able to trim this out during the editing stages.

Finally, for the last section of our filming we had to film up a huge hill. This was a problem as our actor for 'Patrick' was unable to climb up the hill. To overcome this problem myself and the actress of 'Evangeline' went up and got the POV shots. We then found another area to film the section where 'Patrick' was tied to a tree. However, by this time it had got alot darker. This meant that our shots were difficult to see.

Overall, our day was successful as we managed to get all the shots we needed, plus extras incase our edited footage was not long enough. We also managed to shoot it all in one day which allowed meant we had longer time to editing, render and export our final production. If we were to re-shoot our footage, we would improve by starting earlier in order to get all of our footage in good and clear lighting.