Filming Journal

Journal- a record of a series of events which has happened.

Our group filmed the whole of our film opening in one day. Alongside knowing what and when to film in sequence we used our 'shot list' and 'storyboard' which then enabled us to be consistent with filming and know where we film and what shot to use, this was very helpful and helped make the filming much more productive and efficient.

The first parts which we filmed was the first shot which was an 'establishing shot' of the outside of the house which the film is located in.  .We experienced no issues with filming the first shot as we used a tri-pod in order that the camera was not shaky and that it gave us a clean and presentable shot. We did take multiple shots just in case when we came to editing and putting the whole of our shots and filming together that we could get the one which looked the best in our final cut of our film opening.

We then moved onto filming the next shot which was still outside of the house ( the main location/setting). We  used the 'shot list' and 'storyboard' again to help aid when filming the shot of the girl opening the gate as she enters her house. Again we took multiple shots of this to make sure we got the best one out of all the takes which we took. Still filming outside of the house and as the girl is entering her house we then filmed her walking past the gate as she pushes the gate and opens the front door.

Following on from the filming of the girl walking into the house from outside we had to go inside to film the girl pushing the door again but filming it from the inside of the house which would then enable us to edit this when it comes to 'editing' our film opening that she is indeed opening the door and then you see her from the inside of the house as she is closing the door, including the sound effect of the closing door too, again we did take multiple shots of this take as we did come across some difficulties when filming this shot for example we then decided on the spot when filming this part that we want to film her from the outside and inside of the house as she opens the front door as well as taking of her coat. We felt this was important to include as when we filmed the main conversation ( phone call) of our opening scene she has no jacket on therefore we thought it would help to film this to show that she has taken her coat off and come into her house and also this was important to sustain the continuity throughout our film opening.

We then moved onto the next shot of the 'girl' walking up the stairs into the camera. With this shot we took the camera placed it on a tri-pod and filmed from the top of the stairs looking down onto the stairs as the girl walks up the stairs, with the camera following her up the stairs until she reaches the top of the stairs. We had to film this many times to get it accurate for example we had some issues when we filmed one of the shots cause the girl was either walking too fast or slow paced up the stairs so had to keep filming until we got this shot perfect.

We then moved on having filmed the previous shot to the bedroom shot of the film sitting on her bed about to call her boyfriend who is at university. We placed the camera in the corner of the bedroom on a tri-pod and panned across the whole of the bedroom following the girl as she walked into the bedroom from one side to the other. We had to film this at the same time of day to ensure the light remained constant to sustain the continuity of the light throughout the whole of our film opening.

The next shot which we filmed was  in another bedroom in the house. We placed the camera at the top of the boys desk on a tri-pod and filmed the boy while he was having a real life phone call with his girlfriend who was in the other room when we were filming. Then we filmed the girl having the same phone call with her boyfriend which you can hear both the girl talking to her boyfriend and the boyfriend on the  phone when we filmed this. When it comes to editing we will edit this perfectly not having a split screen  but cutting back and fourth between the girl and the boy who are both having the phone call.Again we had no difficulties when filming this however we did take multiple shots just to be sure.

The final shot which we filed on our filming day was the shot of the boyfriend and the girl which he is cheating on his girlfriend with walks. This was by far the easiest part of filming from the whole day and only had to film once as the first time which we filmed was perfect and worked out well.