ೃ⁀➷ DAY ONE OF FILMING *ೃ༄

 

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today I will be describing my first day of filming.

The first day of shooting was difficult at first. Before we even started shooting, we needed to get the film equipment. So, right before we started shooting, I went to go pick up the film equipment from BECON-TV.  The first clip we filmed was the first scene in the film opening - which was the lighting of the candles. For this scene, we needed to do a rack focus, with the shift of focus from the candles lighting to the rest of the group in the background. This clip took a while to film, as we faced many problems doing this. The first issue was the lighting - we did a test run at first, to see how the lighting would work with just the candle lights, but it was too dark even with the candles to see the girls behind it. So, we had to add another light that would be in the middle of the group. The next issue was doing the rack focus which I had a little trouble getting it right. However, we ended up getting the clip right and we were all proud of it! We began to film more clips and it went smoother from there. We had to take a break in order to charge the light, but overall the process went smoothly.

The sound and the lighting was one of the roughest things to deal with during filming. The boom mic picks up a lot of things, and even the smallest detail could mess up the clip. For example, for most of the clips with the group where no one is talking, we had everyone hold their breaths (it seems odd, but it worked). For example, in one clip where Samantha's character Maddie is sneaking out of the house, we had to around 15 retakes because we would either hear an out of place noise, such as Samantha's nails hitting the door, or we had to retake because the door moved to slow, or the camera shook from the vibration. For some clips we also took variations of clips to decide which one looks better during editing. For example, there is a clip where we show what card the main characters get, and we took two variations of that clip; one where the card is flipped over, and one where the card is not flipped. We will be filming again this Monday to film the rest of the opening. I have no doubts that the filming process will be great. Here are some pictures me and the group took during filming :)