Shooting

On Saturday we filmed for our opening scene, we wanted to use the whole day for filming but unfortunately some of the actors couldn't make it on the time we wanted to, so we filmed a couple of hours later as planned. Due to the weather on the day the wind on the day was making it hard for us to get a clean shot of the scene we wanted as the wind kept moving the tripod, it was hard to hear the actors speak due to the wind this is shown in the shot of the character 'Donna' in the car on the phone to 'Zoey', we will have to re-record the voices using post synching to make the speaking clips more clear when they are speaking, we will need to make sure that the speech the actor is doing again is te correct timing as in the clip. When walking the actors costume and hair kept blowing in the wind making it hard for them to act the way they were needed to. Instead of having a walking scene through the street we used the car and just the drive to film the first few seconds of the opening to make it easier because the wind restricted us to what we were planning to do. This beginning will be good as we have filmed enough shooting time to use the slide transitions we are wanting to use like in the opening "Definitely Maybe". As it was cold outside and the actors were wearing typical summer clothes we tried to film quickly as the actors were cold and uncomfortable outside in this weather, luckily inside the house was warm.

 We thought that the way we shot the character in different positions on the bed worked well and we think it will work well when editing it with the jump cuts. This was easy to shoot as we didn't need to worry about the continuity effects as we wanted to show time had moved on from different shots so we used props to show this effect.

When filming in the kitchen we did loads of shots of the fridge shot in how 'Zoey' should take out the ice-cream needed. We did over 10 shots of having the camera inside the fridge and the different angles and height the camera should be in to get an accurate shot on the characters face going into the fridge. We thought this shot worked really well.

We had a few problems with the camera and the tripod. The camera ran out of battery a few times so we had to delay filming and wait for the camera to charge, while this was happening we discussed what the shots we still needed to do should contain and what we should do to make it better. Also the tripod slanted for the first few shots making the shot of the scene tilt a little we did manage to fix the problem though eventually.