Filming Diaries...

Day 3:
This was the most productive day of filming, and hopefully we filmed everything we need. We planned for this to be our final night of filming, and we shot all of the inside scenes, and the outside scenes by the front door, with the character rushing to get her keys in and unlock the door.

We worked efficiently I feel, and got most of the filming done. We filmed the scenes in the doorway first, and then the living room and kitchen scenes.

Problems:
Our tripod was missing a piece that was needed to attach the camera to it, we didn’t realise until we actually came to film the scenes. As we were filming in the evening, there wasn’t anything to could do to solve the problem, so we just had to try and work around it. It was our final night of filming, so we just had to film the shots hand held, but tried to keep the camera as steady as possible, and I personally don’t think it’s that obvious that the tripod wasn’t used inside the house. We still got the shots we needed.

Something else that we struggled with, was getting the cat to co-operate (I now know why to never work with animals when filming).
Holly’s cat, Paris, was supposed to sit on the kitchen worktop, with the saucepan on the floor, to show that she had knocked if off and the character’s relief that it wasn’t as bad as she had thought. Although this was fine when we took the pictures for the storyboard, she decided that she wasn’t happy with the arrangement when it came to getting the shots of her we needed.
Even after milk and treats, she still kept moving before we had the shots. However, in the end we did get brief clips of what we needed, it just took a little longer than we anticipated.

We tried to get varied shots, such as high angle, over the shoulder, point of view, etc. and I feel it went well.

If we notice shots that are missing when editing the footage, we will have to borrow the camera again, to get anything that we missed, but hopefully this won’t be necessary.