Day of Filming

On the dedicated day of filming we got the majority of footage done and to do this we decided to slit up into pairs filming different parts to help us get it done quicker and took advantage of having two flip cameras. However, I think that maybe doing this is why when we played the footage on the computer we have decided that we don't have enough varied shots. This is a problem for us cause we feel that we might have to re film parts which means that we will have to organise another time that everyone is free to do filming. We filmed during the day and asked our actress to change outfits for different scenes. This also took some time as we had to decided what for her to wear and felt that we was sometimes wasting time deciding on the positions of the camera. I think this shows that we could have prepared more before the day of filming. One of the problems we have realised with filming during the day is the scenes were it is meant to be night time have slightly got a hint of daylight even though we tried to block this out. This is something that we might re film if we have time and is one of the aspects that hasn't worked particularly well.

We used the HD cameras and found that we had to use the tripods because otherwise the filming wasn't steady enough. Laura and Amara filmed the scenes of the chess pieces moving across the board and this took them sometime as they were creating a shadow but I think it was worth their time as the lighting is quite good on these shots. Whilst they were doing this me and Frank were filming the shot of her brushing her hair in the bathroom. I think we have filmed this clip quite well because we have managed use movement of the camera in the shot which builds up the tension.

I think during the day we all worked well together as we had to make joint decisions and help each other with positioning of cameras and angles. We gave our actress as much direction as we could to help her and to enable us to get the shots that we wanted. I think we had a good relationship with our actress because she is a friend of ours which meant that we all felt comfortable with each other and was an advantage for us. Eve though we all agree that we might have to re film sections or add sections i think the day went well as we have most of our filming and means that we are ready to start editing.