Thursday, 10 May 2012

Shooting our short drama went relatively well however lighting was a key concern. Due to our complete collective knowledge of lighting resulting in no past experience it was a highly trial and error based method. As the shoot continued we gradually improved our skills and began to counteract the shadows which meant filming was initially snail paced. Apart from lighting filming went surprisingly smooth, apart from the camera battery/memory card running out at the worst possible time, but sods law is acceptable in these situations. We generally worked well as a group, succesfully negating any issues that arose and keeping in high spirits regardless of progression. We encountered a huge difficulty with the steadycam we were using, primarily that the shots weren't steady, so we enlisted the aid of an office chair. Although this improved the shot it was still highly shakey meaning we had to do what we could in the edit. Although disliking our script idea i thoroughly enjoyed the shooting proccess, especially considering the lighting and mise-n-scene elements, which gave a lot of value added.

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