This lot of filming proved very very difficult to organise because no one was available on the same days, and also different people had the camera and the props so it meant that we really needed everyone there. However, that was impossible so in the end Emily and I went to film with an actress who was different to the person we had planned to film with originally because she became really ill the day before. Even though Ella had the storyboard and most of the props, we made the most of what we could from using the script and the props which were available at the actress' house. By this point in the organisation process it was now about 4 o'clock in December, therefore it was starting to get dark outside already which proved a few problems with natural lighting when filming, as you can see in the few clips below.
This is one of the earliest bits that we filmed in the afternoon so the lighting here isn't so much of a problem, but the smears on the mirror were extremely noticeable, which wouldn't be there if we had planned better before, and also the setting is not as we had planned. As the bedroom wasn't able to be used, we had to try and make do in a living room and make it appear similar to a bedroom, which in my opinion wasn't very convincing.
As you can see from this bit of footage, the lighting started to become a problem around this time. The lack of natural light has made the footage really grainy and low quality, and so the it was completely unusable. However when we turned on the artificial lighting, it made the shot look really yellow and therefore it looked very wrong in the sequence with the other clips we already had. So, despite trying to fix the problem, we still ended up with a shot that had either too much high key lighting or too much low key lighting and so this would have meant that we would need to re-shoot this footage too.
These next few shots would have worked okay together but would have required a lot of editing to get the timings right, and also to get the match on action perfect would have been very difficult too. However the lighting was good and the body language and sophisticated atmosphere we were hoping to get from the clips came through too.
Had we chosen to use this clip, it would have had to have been massively cropped but this series of events would have been great for creating a contrast between our wealthier protagonist compared to Jodie, our other. The reason the lighting in these was slightly better is because we had moved to another area of the house to film this scene. Filming indoors was always going to be an issue for us, especially in winter because it means that the lighting was always going to be worse, and make our lives harder in terms of the quality of the recording. These few shots are still a little grainy, but not as much as before and so they would have been usable if we'd wanted.
In this shot below, the angling is quite good, but the camera work was pretty shaky. Although the actress hesitates and looks towards camera at the end, this would have been easily cropped at 5 seconds. This however is still too long for a shot in our storyboard, and so if we had carried on with this idea, I believe we would have had real difficulty trying to fit all of our footage into two minutes, even with leeway.
This final clip that we got from filming was good quality except not very well planned. The boxes in the background would not be something you would see in the setting of such an upper class, luxurious house, and so again takes away from the effectiveness it would have had in the narrative. Also, it is a bit slow and so would probably have needed re-filming if we decided to use these bits of footage anyway.
All in all, I think we have made the right decision in quitting the production of this opening sequence and starting in the development of another because we would have had trouble in fitting all of our footage into two minutes, even after editing, and due to the fact that filming was rushed, the video that we got from both attempts at filming was not good enough to get the grade that we hoped to achieve as an end result. What I have learnt from the production of this project, is that much more time, consideration and planning needs to go into filming sessions. This means that we should use a shot list effectively to ensure that the right parts are filmed at the right times and to a good enough standard, which would mean that we don't have to re-film, although I think that this is almost inevitable because the footage can always be improved. It also means that we should give ourselves enough time to film, and maybe split it up into more sessions so that it gives us all an equal opportunity to do our fair share of camera work.
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