Shooting the Short day 2

We finished filming in 2 days. We had to go back to Liberty Park with confirmation of our project as it's for a university project, the manager signed it, we were allowed to pick up where we left off - which was just 2 more shots until we moved onto Hyde Park for the second and final location.

Problems occurred before we started where we hadn't charged the battery over night and we had to delay filming by an hour to charge it up. Again this effected our time management which left us only 2-3 hours left of filming before we had to give back the camera to Matt. Once started filming again, we got approached by an officer asking us questions and having to take down our details so we didn't get asked the same questions if we got stopped again, and we took down hers aswell.

We got some amazing shots whilst at Hyde Park, one where i filmed Joel walking through the park with a wide shot. Another where i followed Joel running around the park capturing him taking images of the scenery, feeling free (as the character) and allowing himself to express the character and be in his element with his camera. Almost as if the camera following Joel on this scene was him playing with his old friend. Which takes us to the next scene of Joel on the swing. This was the most difficult to capture because 1. there were a load of school kids (bratts) playing on the swings next to us being a nuisance and 2. My aim was to capture Joel's character thinking he was with his old friend, camera dropping to the floor, breaking out of shock, and the old friends soul leaving the camera. First of all we didn't want to break the camera which then ruled out dropping it on the floor. It was apparent we only had 15 minutes of filming left when we were filming Joel on the swing towards the end, again completely effecting our time management and lack of organisation skills due to not charging for long enough. So we filmed him on the swing, panning it to the left with Tim entering, then leaving the scene with the swing still moving, like a ghostly figure. Joel wanted to experiment with other ideas of it ending which didn't link and i was in truth.

All in all it was a successful day of filming, i was cautious about the ending tho. Will have to wait until we hit the editing suite where Wiz will edit and i'd like to be there to give him a real insight of how I want the film edited and what message and emotions I want to show to it's fullest, and just help guide Wiz in the right direction.

Lighting

Whilst in Joel's room we were discussing light throughout the indoor shoot. As he was waking up, there were no lights on but we opened up enough of the curtain to allow sufficient light in on Joel's face. It worked well because we were showing him waking up getting out of bed, usually it's dark when the curtains are closed so it allowed us to link up whats happening. It was tempting to place a lamp in the dark areas in the hope it would lighten up the room a little, i thought it may make it more personal. In the end we went with just the natural light until he got out of bed and turned the main light on. After he moves away from his bed, the light shines strongly on the pictures of the character and his friends. The light in the bathroom reflects very brightly from the mirror, it's original source is coming from the ceiling.

I was considering for one of our shots, as Joel was running down the stairs to be viewed by the effect of a cctv camera, but it was too difficult to get the camera high enough into the corner to make it look what we thought would have been well enough.

Outside Liberty Park and Hype Park the light from the sky was okay, theres a beautiful wide angle shot where Joel's running and taking pictures as i'm running with him and capture the sun setting in the background