Diary Entry - Shooting Day Three

Day Three:

Today is scheduled to be our last day of shooting as the bulk of our opening sequence has been shot however we just need to film the ending (1 year earlier) scene in the alleyway; the tracking shots of the actors running down the road and the motorbike noises. Our location for today was an alley-way conveniently around the same area as our previous location so we did not have to travel far. We were using purely natural light as it was still daytime and we will be making this footage black and white anyway. As it was during the day, it was relatively quiet due schools being off and most people being at home, therefore we managed to shoot smoothly without many interferences.

 

Diary Entry - Shooting Day Two

Day Two:

Today we were back recording in the studio with our DSLR fully charged and our lighting kit already set up, to finish the off the main part of our opening sequence as yesterday we only managed to complete the first scene.

Unfortunately we were informed that two of our lead actors could not make due to school and work commitments which means that we had re-write our script putting in all three of us (Myself, Santi and Oscar) into an acting role. Although this threw us off course we managed to still stick to our original plan, and with Oscar re-writing the script we were then good to go to start from scratch.

Once we began shooting everything ran pretty smoothly apart from one scene where the comedy of the script was a challenge for the actors to compose themselves. However we were able to shoot everything we needed going into tomorrow's last day of shooting, as we had allocated plenty of time for the day, therefore our camera very nearly ran out of battery whilst shooting our last scene of the day.

 

 

Diary Entry - Shooting Day One

Day One:

On our first day of shooting, we had our location and all the production team arrived on time (Santi, Oscar and myself). However the actors were running late which delayed us, so we tried to shoot any scenes or footage which did not need the actors to make good use of our time. When the actors did arrive, we also had to give them time to learn there lines so they felt comfortable in front of the camera. After a while we managed to start shooting. And everything went according to plan as we managed to record the first scene of our opening sequence.

We had originally borrowed one of the schools cameras, however after nearly an hour of trying to figure out how to connect our audio speaker to the camera by watching countless YouTube videos we had to make the decision to use our own Nikon DSLR camera as you can see in the picture above as we were wasting valuable time.