Shoot One

On Sunday my group and I completed our first shoot for our final product. The severe weather conditions of snow and ice meant that our antagonist was unable to reach our filming location so we decided to postpone filming his scenes until the forthcoming weekend. The weather also gave us some problems when it came to our lighting. This was due to the fact that all the snow outside made the natural light shining through the windows a lot brighter than it would have been otherwise. However, we worked with the situation and thought of ways to overcome this problem, for example, we decided it would be best to close one of the curtains and only use the natural light shining through one of the windows so the room didn't seem to bright. 

Regardless of this, we completed filming all of our protagonists scenes which shall take up at least 3/4's of our opening title sequence. In addition, it was also a very experimental day because we decided to vary some of the shots we planned to use in our storyboard. Although we had our storyboard accessible and used it as a guideline, we found that some of the shots we had planned to use wouldn't necessarily work or look good in our final piece. Therefore, many of the shots we took were similar but varied in length and angle in order to give us the widest range of choice when it comes to editing. 

On the other hand due to a number of reasons our timing for filming was also cut short which meant we didn't have enough time to experiment as much as we might have wanted but this didn't prevent us from filming everything we needed in one way or another. Furthermore, if we find that some of our shots don't work or we are missing something then we shall allow some time to re-shoot some aspects to ensure our final piece is as good as we can make it.  

Overall though I am pleased with my groups progress because even though we didn't have enough time as we might have wanted in order to be experimental, we did manage to have good communication and co-operation from all the group and our actress. This meant that we filmed what we wanted fairly quickly. We also allowed time for setting up the mise-en-scene and our actresses costume which didn't interfere with our filming time and presented our good organisational skills and preparation.