Filming Diaries...

Day !:
Our first day of filming, did go well, but it could have gone better.
The problem we faced, as simple as it sounds, was getting the camera to fit on the tripod and stay there. Once this had been sorted, we started to film the outside scenes.
We got the bus scene filmed, but as we were waiting further down from the stop, a boy came to wait for the bus. This caused complications for us, as we didn’t have permission from him to be shown in the film. Fortunately. Having seen the footage back, we will be able to edit it so he can’t be seen, and this problem will be resolved.
Also something we had to be careful with, was not getting anyone on the bus in the shot, but luckily, the bus stop we used was the last on the bus route, so there wasn’t anyone apart from me on the bus and this made things easier.

We got a variety of shots, but most were done using the tripod. After we had the shots we needed with that, we moved on the using the handheld camera technique. This gave an effect of someone else walking behind the character and the camera being there view.

We also filmed point of view shots from the characters perspective, with the camera turning in a circular motion at the same point the character turns around, so the camera is acting as her eyes.

I feel this night of filming was productive, even though it ws really old.