In this post I will keep an updated log on how I felt filming went.We decided that we would film the whole content in the duration of one day as it would give us more time to edit it all together. Then we could decide weather we needed to re shoot anything.We decide to Shoot our footage in one day in the half term. We had to take sound levels and continue into consideration so the timing of the filming was very important. It became apparent that we should film late morning as the parents in the house would be out and because the house was situated near a main road it helped with the traffic noise. Firstly we arrived at our location and studies our shot list and other documents to decide where to place the camera. We started with the end scenes in our opening sequences because the end scenes were situated outside so we had to take into consideration lighting, as we wanted it to be a natural source of light. whilst we was outside filming we had a few amount of problems with pedestrians vans passing by and being noticed on camera.However we felt as our genre was a rom com we wanted the atmosphere to look natural so thankfully the noise from a white van parking up fits within the scene. However the with the pedestrians we had to conduct a number of shoots.
Majority of our shots were filmed with a tripod however in some cases we wanted to achieve certain angles for example angles filmed through a mirror, to achieve this we had to use hand held camera work as our location did not allow the tripod to fit in a very small spaces from this, some problems which occurred were due to filming without a tripod from this some of our shots were not static. I feel that some of our footage we should of taken more than one shot because this only allowed us to have one opportunity to make the shot work.However as we our filming only took four hours, it allowed us to have more time to edit and this became beneficial for us.
When filming in JENNY'S bedroom some problems occurred which we didn't originally encounter for example we originally planned to use natural lighting however it became apparent that we had to show the audience the difference of night and day. As our opening sequence starts with JENNY asleep the curtains had to be drawn this continued until later on in the clip when JENNY'S draws the curtains back, as the window is across one wall it created shadows in our shots. The created some of the shots to be dull so therefore we used available artificial lighting. When creating our shot list we didn't expect particular shots to caused us problems compared to others for example the shot of the pillow case displaying 'Kings Langley productions'. We had to film this at least 4 attempts because JENNY had to roll over whilst taking the pillow case with her. However it was hard to read the lettering and the lighting was quite dark. Another Shot what created us problems was the shot of JENNY throwing her tights at her tampon box .When we originally thought of this we thought it would look slick however the shot took us about 10 attempts then when we had achieved this we need to re shot it because we needed a variety of angles. In the end we had to use a variety of shot to make it look like the box feel on the floor.
To conclude I feel our filming went well and as a group we are pleased with the outcome of our footage we managed to produce jump cuts what fitted well with the music and gained positive outcome with genre of our film.
