Wednesday 21st of March.
We had completed our planning and were ready to film our first lot of footage for our opening sequence, we had our full film synopsis and also our opening sequence synopsis completed and we knew the footage we needed to get, we planned to walk back to our primary film location and film the scenes in chronological order.
The filming equipment was in hand and there was no confusion as to how we were going to film our footage, it was 4.00pm we we arrived at location and once our actor for Harry was in character we were ready to film, we filmed the waking scenes and the alarm clock scenes, each about for times in order to have plenty of footage to choose from when editing.
we also filmed the bathroom scenes, of which parts were chosen for final footage, we had then realised we were not entirely co-ordinated and prepared for which scenes to shoot or how we were going to go about it, therefore this had to be decided and agreed on before filming could continue, and a majority of the opening scenes were not filmed at all.
After realising the problem at school and also noticing the natural light for our waking scenes was not able for use we decided that we had to prepare better for the next week, throughout the rest of the week, jobs, timings, costumes and props had been planned out and created in time for the next scheduled day of filming.
Sunday 25th of March.
Once we had completed our first film day we realised our weaknesses and learnt very quickly how to combat them for our next shoot.
I created a film schedule for our second day in order to create some sort of plan for how we would go about it in order to remove chances of confusion which we had experienced the day before.
Lighting was also taking into effect when planning within the four days between both days, we took full advantage of the clocks changing on the night before our filming on this day as it gave us extra natural light which we would have needed in order to make our film top quality.
Our full film schedule complete with reasons of creation is located on a different post which will explain in full detail the plan of filming.
Lots of useful footage was produced on this shoot due to the massive improvement of organisation and our knowledge of what to expect from this task which we gained from our last, more unsuccessful shoot, we filmed much utilised final footage including lots of our integrated titles.
Although we prepared more for this shot, as we started filming at 4.00pm and finished at 7.00pm we realise we were probably too optimistic for the amount of useful footage we would receive, and although we filmed a lot of footage and this helped to raise our confidence after the first shoot, there were still problems that needed to be overcome, albeit smaller and rather more manageable problems.
This was our final film day, and although no film schedule was created, rough notes and to do lists were created, although we all knew the shots which were left to do were manageable within this time frame, the last of our props were managed to be included and our integrated titles and actor were completely ready, this filming day, although the shortest was completed with the most fluency as i believe we had finally adapted to this type of task, we walked to the location directly after Sixth form and started filming roughly 4.30pm after a problem regarding a practical joke involving the camera delayed progress slightly.
Although we prepared more for this shot, as we started filming at 4.00pm and finished at 7.00pm we realise we were probably too optimistic for the amount of useful footage we would receive, and although we filmed a lot of footage and this helped to raise our confidence after the first shoot, there were still problems that needed to be overcome, albeit smaller and rather more manageable problems.
Thursday 29th of March
This was our final film day, and although no film schedule was created, rough notes and to do lists were created, although we all knew the shots which were left to do were manageable within this time frame, the last of our props were managed to be included and our integrated titles and actor were completely ready, this filming day, although the shortest was completed with the most fluency as i believe we had finally adapted to this type of task, we walked to the location directly after Sixth form and started filming roughly 4.30pm after a problem regarding a practical joke involving the camera delayed progress slightly.
The natural light was very good for our kitchen scenes and could be used to portray morning extremely well, we filmed all of the scenes within the kitchen and the antagonist's video diaries and managed to finish all of our footage to a brilliant standard ready for the editing task.
The filming of the footage was the most fundemental part of production and although problems were encountered they were quickly overcome in order to finish with the superb footage we needed.
Robert Thurgood Phillips
Robert Thurgood Phillips
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