Filming: Day 1

Today we filmed the first draft of our project.

Firstly, we needed it to be dark when we filmed so we had to wait until it was the evening. 

We needed to set up the room before we could start filming. For this, we needed to place lamps into the correct places of the room. If the lamp was in the wrong place, you would get a lens flare appearing in the camera - something that needed to be avoided at all costs. We then needed to set up the desk in the room, this was done easily enough. 

 The only area that could have been improved in the set up of the room is the plain walls - I think that if we were to re-film, we should add posters or drawings to the walls which will add to the tense feeling that something is not right.

One of the difficulties we faced as a group was following the storyboard. As we didn't have it with us, we were going by a digital version. Also, some of the angles that we had hoped to film were not as easy as it was to write down on paper, this meant that we needed to change certain shots and think up new creative angles that we could use to still successfully convey the meaning if our film, whilst keeping a high level of cinematography.

Another element that we found difficult to control was the continuity of the miss-en-scene. In a few of the shots we did not realise that some of the background had changed and the make-up of the model had altered. Luckily though, we noticed there and then and not when we came back to edit. This meant that we would do a quick re-shoot with the miss-en-scene under control and back in the same state as it was in previous shots.