Inital Filming on the 18th of December - Dom

handheld shot, discussing next move

Initially we wanted to have an actor playing the main character outside of our group. Although, as college students, and other workloads timetables etc, it  turned out way too  inconvenient to arrange a time where we would have sufficient amount of time to film the shots we need. An alternative would be filming shots on different days but the weather is a concern because we are filming outside. This really limited the times we could film, so it was more practical using John as our protagonist.

The opening shot for our film was the first part of our day, the weather was good, sunny and dry. This meant the shots where we wanted to show his view on things, would be vivid and bright: getting the point across how he sees the 'bright side' of things.

We then continued by filming the shots up to number x on our storyboard.

We lost the tripod shoe on the beach at one stage (which was nearly impossible to find again!) which gave us a problem of stability when filming some of our shots. For example this shot of the west pier, ( to be used later as a green screen image), and you can see the problem with steadiness. However, time was of the essence and having spent a long time searching, we decided to carry on. Eventually, Josh found the tripod shoe, making us all very happy!

We shot footage up to shot the encounter with 1st the girl then we called it a day, until our next filming shoot.

Due to the dawn light, on intial inspection on the camera the fottage seemed to be white balanced- we assumed the camera auto white balanced. However on further inspection in the editing suite we noticed a distinct cyan tinge toi the majority of the fottage. Thus, this lead to our refilming day.

To be honest, this day was a really valuable expereince. we were able to see first hands what shots would/wouldnt work and aslo drew new ideas and inpiration.

This lead to our second filming day.