Shooting

So, on Tuesday we went and shot all of our footage. We are now working on producing a rough cut for the end of this lesson. The shoot itself was quite successful. When we got to James's house we decided to shoot all of the outside shots as soon as possible in the hope it wouldn't get darker. Unfortunately it did get darker and we have now found that it is difficult to see what is going on in quite a few of the shots we have. We are experimenting with the Final Cit software to see if there is any way of making the characters visible. If we are unsuccessful in this we will have to find some time when we can go back and re-shoot.

Ali had an accident during the shoot whilst filming outside. We forgot to take into account how difficult it is to run along a garden path in the dark, whilst holding a camera. Ali was the unfortunate camera man who fell and cut his knee, luckily he was okay to carry on with the shoot. 

After we had finished shooting outside we moved inside. Here we encountered another small

 problem. Our shoes were covered in mud from shooting outside and as this wasn't a problem for Ryan and Ali as they were behind the camera it was a problem for James and Sam. We had to be careful not to shoot our feet because we would be robbing a house in our socks. We experimented with lots of different shot angles as we wanted to get as much footage as we can. We included a point of view shot from one of the protagonists. I held the camera up to my face for this and just repeated the scene the way we had done it before. We eventually got everything we needed and it was the end of the shoot.

Whilst I was writing this Ali has put the finishing touches on the rough cut and we have decided that we will most definitely need to go back and re-shoot some footage. This will probably be done at the weekend as Ryan and Myself both live in Bottisham, as does Sam, our other actor.