First Day of Filming

On the first day of filming we tried to get as much footage as possible. We filmed for a total of 3 hours, and decided that we would get the main narrative sequence filmed first, as it was the longest sequence within the whole film. It will give us an early chance to get a large part of the film opening edited as well, giving us spare time to cover anything that we have missed. As we were filming we followed the storyboard as accurately as possible, but altering our filming slightly enhance the quality of our product.

We hit a problem before we could film however, and that was arranging a day to suit everyone. At first we had a completely different male actor to the one who is in the final product. However, we decided to use someone else because our inital actor wasn't available as much as we would like.

Another problem that we encountered after our first day of filming was some of the quality within the footage was lost, due to the low level lighting that we filmed under. At first we decided have low level lighting would be perfect for the mise-en-scene and created the atmosphere within the scenes perfect for our genre. However, when we uploaded the footage, and tried to edit it, all the footage was grainy and poor quality due to the lighting.

Although we were disappointed with the outcome, essentially we hadn't wasted a day on the filming, because we learnt from our mistakes and decided to make the lighting a priority, and we knew that if needed we could edit the level of lighting through 'iMovie'. It also gave us something more sincere to follow, as we had already filmed everything once.