Filming Log

Here I have just put together a filming log which states what days we were filming and what we filmed for each of those days.

 

Saturday 21st January 2017:

On this day Chelsea, Olivia and I begun our filmed part of our project in the park location, which is Kings Frith park. Here we filmed a few of my scenes and discussed the most appropriate weather conditions we should film in. The weather on this day was perfect and is was mostly sunny but just enough so it was not too bright for my camera. However, further on into our course we decided not to use those clips as we changed our ideas slightly and wanted to be in a different part of that same park. Despite this I gave us a great opportunity to get an idea of what kind of things we were looking for and what mistakes so avoid e.g. making sure my hair stayed the same after each take.

 

Wednesday 25th January 2017:

On this particular day Chelsea, Gabrielle and I wanted to begin filming the bedroom scene as we wanted to get an idea of what kind of lighting we were after, where I would be etc. However, as it was just after school we discovered that there was not a lot of natural light, which we discovered we would rather use because the light that was originally in my room was too orange and did not feel professional. This is when we decided to not use the clips we had filmed and film on another day when the natural lighting in my room was much brighter for filming. We decided to film on a weekend for the bedroom scene instead as it gave us more time to film and the lighting would be much better.

 

Thursday 26th January 2017:

On this day Chelsea and I began to film the flashback scenes for our opening, even though it was after school the natural lighting did not matter anyway as we wanted it to be quite dark. After filming a couple of shots and watching them back we came to the conclusion that the lighting was once again too orange but at the same time too bright, we wanted it to be more ominous. So we decided to turn the light off but we found that it was too dark and you couldn't see clearly through the camera. After discussing this with Chelsea we both decided to rearrange another filming day where all of our group could be there, as it would make it easier when decided what to do as a team.

 

Monday 13th February 2017:

On the next day of our filming section of our project the whole of our group came to my house to film the whole of the bedroom scene. We were successful with the lighting as it was bright enough to capture all of the shots we wanted.

 

Thursday 16th February 2017:

On this day we filmed the park scene once again in order to get the correct lighting and have our characters put in the most appropriate place in the park. This was a success because throughout the time we were there the lighting did not change too dramatically.

 

Wednesday 1st March 2017:  

Nearing to the end of our filming time the whole of our group came to my house to film the garage scene again but this time we used torches, this gave us more freedom and flexibility of where we could put the lighting (our lighting could be more direct if we wanted it to). The face paint was successful as well, I was able to make them look as much like bruises as I could.

 

Friday 10th March 2017: 

This was our final day of filming and what we needed to do was film some shots again that had some minor mistakes in that we did not realise the first time around filming the bedroom scenes. Some of these mistakes where; in one shot I was holding my phone with one hand but in the shot straight after I was holding it with two.