Actual Filming

We finally got round to do our filming when the weather was more generous. We used my camera to film and transported all the equipment to the location using my car.

Equipment that we used:

Sony XR-155 camera
Tripod
White card to reflect light
Kodak HD pocket camera
Torches

I was the directorof the film, this meant I had to make sure everybody else knew what they where doing and when to do it aswell as organizing everything, I also had to find the location and make sure that the continuity between shots was kept. Jack was in charge of lighting, I showed him how we could use the torches and card to create softer reflections of light to better give the impression of natural light, and helped find the location to film. Stuart was mainly cameraman although I did film some shots, he was incharge of the camera and the various shots that we used.

Instead of using the Tripods that we bought for our film we held the camera wihth our hands. We felt this meant we could get better angles (e.g. we couldnt get the tripod open in the car), also we felt the shakiness helped to add to the disorientation and dramatized events.

We filmed each shot multiple times so we could look afterwards using hindsight and decide which was best for the production, and we also did each scene from different angles, so when editing the film we could cut between shots which we felt would make the film look more profeshionally done aswell as allowing the viewer to see what is taking place on screen far easier.

To get light ont he scene we either used a very high powered LED torch, the headlights from my car, natural light(Moon) or a slightly less powerful yellow tinted bulb torch. We felt that we dealt with the lack of light very well in the final piece. Shooting in the dark is always a huge problem even for films with huge budget and considering we didn't have a budget we did extremely well. At one point we did discuss using night on day but we felt it would retract from the realism of the piece as most people can spot it.

Whilst filming we kept to the original plot that we had planned for. When on set however complications meant we had to change some sections and new ideas came up which meant we shot scenes that we didn't initially plan for.