Filming, Part 1
On 4/10/18, I carried out my first shoot. I intended to finish filming the first scene in the forest with the phone call.
It was a bright, clear, sunny day and perfect for filming. I had 4 people other than me and Becca, my main actor, helping out.
Within the shoot, we changed a few things in the script:
1. The name of the character "Blake" to "Andrew".
2. Experimented with changed dialogue, and while it retains the same core meaning, I removed a few words.
The shoot went really well and I got a lot of footage that I wanted. However, when reviewing the footage, I am not completely happy with the end results. I will be re-filming the entire thing as well as the dialogue scenes in one shoot. A lot of the takes, I found, were used to help get my main actor into the character. This time, now that they know what their character is, and now that I know what camera angles work, I aim to be more succinct and film several takes of entire scene (in one go).
This first shoot was very important to me to get a hang of the equipment I'm working with as well as just simply learning how to direct. These are things that you can only really learn through experience, so refilming everything does not negate the time I spent on it.
I've attached a few pictures below of the shoot went.
It was a bright, clear, sunny day and perfect for filming. I had 4 people other than me and Becca, my main actor, helping out.
Within the shoot, we changed a few things in the script:
1. The name of the character "Blake" to "Andrew".
2. Experimented with changed dialogue, and while it retains the same core meaning, I removed a few words.
The shoot went really well and I got a lot of footage that I wanted. However, when reviewing the footage, I am not completely happy with the end results. I will be re-filming the entire thing as well as the dialogue scenes in one shoot. A lot of the takes, I found, were used to help get my main actor into the character. This time, now that they know what their character is, and now that I know what camera angles work, I aim to be more succinct and film several takes of entire scene (in one go).
This first shoot was very important to me to get a hang of the equipment I'm working with as well as just simply learning how to direct. These are things that you can only really learn through experience, so refilming everything does not negate the time I spent on it.
I've attached a few pictures below of the shoot went.
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