On our first day of filming, we definitely encountered some challenges. However, there were many things that did go well, and in this post I will be discussing both the successes and failures.
To start with the successes, the filming of Betty's bedroom went well since it was just to experiment with where we should place the camera and how we should move it. Betty's (Amber's) bedroom looked really nice with the pink lights, so this may be a benefit since none of us really planned on using it beforehand. Also, the length of Betty and James' conversation turned out to work well time-wise. There will likely be a voiceover playing over them anyways, but knowing that the argument's time worked out was surely a relief.
The failures we encountered were also very insightful.When panning around Betty's room, we learned that we should speed it up since we were going too slow and taking up too much time. However, when we did it faster, we also learned that we should slow down since it seemed too rushed and the audience probably won't process the various props they will see. Basically, we need to find a happy medium with the panning. Another challenge was figuring out the POV shot. When we tried it, it turned out too shaky and messy. Hopefully we can either use a different shot style or film the POV shot more slowly. Furthermore, another failure was filming the tilt to the sky. The sky was sort of darker and more gray than we expected, but this was partially because we left this for last. In order to avoid this, we will be filming the tilt to the sky first, so the audience gets a bright blue sky to look at (assuming the weather's okay!) to simulate the morning time.
Overall, we learned a lot of valuable information that should make the next filming day run much more smoothly.
Mediamel out
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