Filming Diaries: Lonely This Christmas

Day of filming 1: Tues 22nd Dec

Today was the first session we have had filming for our new coming of age film idea. We used Ella's living room as the location for all of the filming today. We did it in the morning to overcome the bad quality picture and lighting issues that usually come with filming inside, and it wasn't lessened. 

The filming went really well today as we managed to film all of the cross-cuts we need for the titles and to break up the bits of speech. We also filmed the still images, establishing shot and all of the other scenes without the actress as she was unavailable until the evening, which wouldn't have worked.
Some of our shots however, did not look the way we had hoped for so we made the necessary tweaks where necessary throughout the filming, for example the diagonal pan across the tree was very rough and jumpy, and it took so long, so we've had to change it to a tilt shortly across in order to make it fit. 

The changes we made were only small e.g shot type and we did a couple more shots that we had originally planned to do in the original recording session. Overall, the filming went well and the next time we have scheduled to film is on Saturday morning. 

                                                                                                                        Ella & Megan at filming