Production Blog Filming FT

Starting off this project, my group and I had some difficulties along the way, the most prevalent one being finding a date when we were all free. This impacted the filming portion quite a bit since we all needed to be together when filming for this specific project. Our schedules all crossed paths and were not aligning due to us having work, sports, academic commitments, and so forth.  Nonetheless, we were able to find some dates to film and got it done. Starting from the start, the first storyboard scenes were the easiest and nicest to film, as they were indoors with controlled lighting and gave us more room for creativity. With Carson being our cameraman, he did a good job at capturing different angles and positioning the characters to be in proper positioning for the title credits. When filming the dishwashing scene, it was important that the camera stayed away from the water, as if it got too close, the camera could have been damaged and the filming process would be halted. Ben was a good director, he made sure to point me in the right directions and ensure that the scenes were moving smoothly. A scene that was kind of hard to film was the scene where I was eating at the dinner table and had to answer the phone to talk to Ben about going to the park. I was seated right in front of a window, which was letting a lot of sunlight into the area, making me look much darker than normal, making the areas around me brighter. A solution to this could have been to simply move me to a different location, but we already filmed a scene at that location, and if we were to move me, the movie setting would be messed up. Other than that, the filming at the house went pretty well. When we filmed the scene with me packing up for the park, Carson utilized the surroundings in order to get the proper angles needed. He stood on top of something in order to get the proper high angle/bird's eye view. The scene which took some attempts to film was the scene where the car behind me honks at me after my character gets paranoid. We had to redo this scene numerous times since cars kept on coming down the road, the camera would not focus right, or the person behind would jump their cue too early. The cameraman overall did his job well, but the combination of other factors played a part in making this scene harder to film. A scene which was easy to film, but nerve racking, was when the camera was positioned on the road facing away from the Jeep, and then the Jeep drove down the road and over the camera, making for a good shot. This shot needed something to slightly tilt the camera upwards, and careful positioning, or else the camera could have been destroyed. Other than that, everything this day went pretty smoothly and filming was able to commence easily.