CONSTRUCTION: LOCATION FILMING

On the 27th of October Tom and I met up with our actors to carry out our first filming shoot. As we were yet to fully establish our plot, the shoot was mostly focused on establishing and any footage we would want to use for transitions or to convey the characters are moving around the setting. Once we had all arrived we began outlining what we wanted to achieve that day, and what we planned to do with the actors. Tom was in charge of directing so I looked to him for instructions on the layout of the film and where he wanted to film and what to happen there. I was in charge of filming, it was my job to ensure that the film's story can be conveyed to the audience through camera. Using different techniques and conventions. 

Here Joe and Ben are being filmed entering and leaving different rooms, this will allow us to have scenes flow together. Though we are producing a trailer, a coherent setting will help us engage with our audience.  

Here I was practising shifting the camera exposure from the torches blinding light, to then reveal the two protagonists.  

Tom explaining the framing he wanted to see when recording Amy on the cherrypicker, to create a boxed-in feeling for the audience. 

Preparation for the brief photo shoot that we were planning to use to create a poster.  

The day after the filming I looked at all the files to see all the progress we had made. There was a lot of videos that I was happy with. Although some of them did not turn out the way I wanted. A key example was the plan to shift the exposure from the flashlight to the characters. The camera struggled to process the lighting and focused the exposure to the light source. This meant that the characters were out of focus and too dark.