Filming Update
Due to our other
commitments, as a group, we have found that we have been slow in filming our
opening scene. It has been difficult for us to find full days in which we would
be able to film entire scenes in certain locations and get the majority of
filming done. Due to school and work, we have found that the only free
day Christie – our main antagonist has is Saturday, meaning little filming can
be done without her, however we have had difficulties in all being able to make
Saturday each week. We hadn’t really
given it much thought, and although we had already exceeded our deadline, we assumed
we would be able to manage in the Christmas holidays as we’d have much more
free time. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case and we have struggled to
find time in which we are all free, despite our schedule.
When we came to filming today – 28th December, we came across a huge dilemma. We had planned to film scenes 9 and 11, which consist of Christie running/returning home however due to the long period in which we had left between filming the beginning scenes of Christie leaving the house, the background had completely changed. Once realising what a stupid and obvious mistake we had make, we were stuck because time was running out due to our other commitments, and the harsh reality of winter gave us few light hours left in the day. We came to the conclusion that we would painstakingly have to re-film and re-edit the entire opening scenes with Christie leaving the house, and the ending scenes with her returning home in order to ensure the same mistake would not be repeated if we left them to do on separate days.
When we came to filming today – 28th December, we came across a huge dilemma. We had planned to film scenes 9 and 11, which consist of Christie running/returning home however due to the long period in which we had left between filming the beginning scenes of Christie leaving the house, the background had completely changed. Once realising what a stupid and obvious mistake we had make, we were stuck because time was running out due to our other commitments, and the harsh reality of winter gave us few light hours left in the day. We came to the conclusion that we would painstakingly have to re-film and re-edit the entire opening scenes with Christie leaving the house, and the ending scenes with her returning home in order to ensure the same mistake would not be repeated if we left them to do on separate days.
Despite this
setback, we found that we worked really well today. As we had already filmed
and edited the opening scenes, we were familiar with which camera angles worked
well and which didn’t. We were also able to remember the sequence in which we
had used the different angles meaning that filming was easier than before, and took
little time. As we knew what we were doing, we found filming much less
stressful than usual and enjoyed it even though we were annoyed at ourselves.
Although we hadn’t filmed the returning home scenes, we found that it was
easier than we expected because we had basically just filmed the same thing in
the other direction, and we were already in the correct location. This benefited
us as we were able to be sure of which camera angles we had and hadn’t included
and were able to make sure we tried to include them this time, in the hope to give our opening more dimension and substance.
Overall, we have learnt that we need to plan a lot more than we thought. We discovered that planning makes the filming so much easier, more fun and not to mention, saves time which is something we would all benefit from. While it was something that could have and should have been avoided, we are pleased with how it went, and although the setting is not as picturesque as before, we hope the outcome will be just as good. Having filmed this, all we have left to film is the protagonist scenes in which we plan to get done soon.
Overall, we have learnt that we need to plan a lot more than we thought. We discovered that planning makes the filming so much easier, more fun and not to mention, saves time which is something we would all benefit from. While it was something that could have and should have been avoided, we are pleased with how it went, and although the setting is not as picturesque as before, we hope the outcome will be just as good. Having filmed this, all we have left to film is the protagonist scenes in which we plan to get done soon.
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