December main task work

After being granted our camera from our pitch, we prepared for our filming. We did this by alerting our actress-Ingrid Hesselbo(thankyou ingrid!)about clothes, times, duartion, and went into detail with her about our storyboard. We told her to wear a red dress because it symbolised danger, as well as blood and seduction-all features that linked closely to the character and the story.
We were delayed by a day, but managed to shoot on Sunday instead. It was very cold, and very early. However, the light gave the area a half-dark look, as intended, and it also meant that there were few people about to walk into shoot-the only distractions were the ducks(very noisy). The shooting went well- for each shot we swapped being dircetor or camera operator. We took a white balance every few shots, and we set out the shots acoording to the storyboard. We decided to do several takes of each shot just in case there were things in the scene which we hadnt noticed, but didnt want(such as cars etc). We also focused on the mise en scene of the shots- making sure they told the audience what we wanted. An example is when we went inside, and we tried out with several views of the character holding the gun, so we could see which ones told the story most effectivly. We decided our orginal idea of her in the mirror with the gun in the foreground looked best, so used that.
Ou filming took around 2-3 hours, and we were all relived that half of the shots were inside, with tea. During our shots inside, we did add a few new aspects, such as the character swithching a bdeside lamp on. This was a good chance to show match on actio, and we also used a focusing effect on the camera that made the shot really interesting.
The onlt problems we faced was when shooting on the bridge-the shots were usually slanted, because the bridge was slanted underneth. We did try to create a realtivly straight ground for the tripod, but in some shots the camera is still slightly tilted. Otherwise, it all went very well(if abit cold) and me and lily worked very well together.