DAY 1: Saturday 14th November 2009
When I arose after very little sleep from the night before planning a shot list and printing out call sheets for everybody on set, I was tired but optimistic. However, when I looked out of the window, I noticed the predicted storms had arrived! At 1st we tried to go out side and weather the storm, but it was all too much, everybody was more concerned with keeping the £3000 camera dry (as another group got the uni's only rain cover, invest people!) than getting the correct shots. The noise from the wind was also awful and for a while I thought that if this carried on the film wouldn't be film-able in these conditions! Luckily we had some shots to do in the interior. Luckily in the afternoon we were able to get down to business and filmed our group shots for Group A, and even though there was light rain and dark skies, it added to the look and feel that I had envisioned for this opening scene. However, the dark sky was a problem later on, as our CCTV scene in the alley-way there was not enough light for the camera to function to its fully capability, and our actor playing the 'security guard' couldn't make the next day.After we had finished, we logged and captured the footage, and noted that we had to re shoot a pick up of the outside scenes of our protagonist running back and forth from the set to get a camera in torrential rain.
DAY 2: Sunday 15th November 2009
After the horrendous weather from the 1st day, none of us expected to be contemplating wearing a pair of these the next day. However, the sun meant that in comparison to the day before day 2 was a doddle. As a group we had a lot more fun, experimenting w
ith tracking shots with the camera in the back of a car, and generally having fun on set. The bad point of the day had to be the unexpected no show of the actor Bianne organised to come to the shoot, as she never knew that he had to be there on the second day. However, we put our heads together and hatched and added that he was the man with the camera to the script. All in all this day was very successful and fun, far from the stress induced shoot that was day 1.
The car park scenes were hard for me to record sound, as for a lot of shots we were using the boom pole and the dead cat as props! Because the microphone is so sensitive to sound I put it in a coat sleeve to protect it, but when recording dialogue we made sure the microphone was out of shot to get good sound recordings of voices.
At the end of the day we went back to ours had a couple of beers, watched our footage back and watched a couple of movies and played computer games. Here are the rest of our photos from the weekend. For now I can relax after the stressful weekend, but not for long as we are all doing individual edits for next week.
After the horrendous weather from the 1st day, none of us expected to be contemplating wearing a pair of these the next day. However, the sun meant that in comparison to the day before day 2 was a doddle. As a group we had a lot more fun, experimenting w
ith tracking shots with the camera in the back of a car, and generally having fun on set. The bad point of the day had to be the unexpected no show of the actor Bianne organised to come to the shoot, as she never knew that he had to be there on the second day. However, we put our heads together and hatched and added that he was the man with the camera to the script. All in all this day was very successful and fun, far from the stress induced shoot that was day 1.The car park scenes were hard for me to record sound, as for a lot of shots we were using the boom pole and the dead cat as props! Because the microphone is so sensitive to sound I put it in a coat sleeve to protect it, but when recording dialogue we made sure the microphone was out of shot to get good sound recordings of voices.
At the end of the day we went back to ours had a couple of beers, watched our footage back and watched a couple of movies and played computer games. Here are the rest of our photos from the weekend. For now I can relax after the stressful weekend, but not for long as we are all doing individual edits for next week.
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