Evaluation of my Personal Feeling about the shoot

The day of the shoot we started to shoot our group film opening from 9:30am till 12:30pm on Wed 17 Jan 2018. We filmed outside the main entrance of Hurtwood House and it was a nice weather in which we shot our film. We did though experience some trouble whilst we filmed such as when cars drove into the scene we had to try and ask the owners to move their car out of our shot in order for the scene to follow through. I was in control of the microphone and had to keep it out of shot of the camera whilst we filmed.

At first I held the microphone above the camera but it was very tiring of holding it for an extend time period, the most uncomfortable time I had to record was when I had to get into the car and lie on the floor next to the backseat when the conversation was between the driver and the girl outside the front left window and when I had to keep it still when the girl was in the backseat of the car whilst I was in the front seat for the next shot.

(Picture above is me and Vahe holding the equipment for our film)

The day before the shoot we prepared as a group and talked about who/what/where is going to be and do, so on the day of the shoot, we all knew our own individual roles and what we had to do on the day of the shoot.
When I woke up the morning of the shoot I looked over our shot list we made as a group and we made sure that there were no gaps in our shoot to work out smoothly.

We filmed outside the main hurtwood house and we already knew where the characters had to stand and where the car had to arrive to in order for the shoot to work, big thanks to Jason for bringing his car and being in our film. We divided the roles by - Jason being the dodge taxi driver, Pheobe being the girl who worries about her friend getting into the wrong car, Emily was the girl who gets into the first car, Vahe was the camera person filming the scene, Sasha was the person holding the microphone above/below the camera. James was directing/holding the light reflecting panel and Nadieya held the reflector also.
                                                                                            (This is a picture of use filming the inside of the car)


I personally think I did a good job of having the microphone close enough for the actors to be heard and far enough from the cameras' view. I think we could have improved on our timings at the start of the day but we finished in time and we did not rush our film. I think I managed my job well enough of holding the mic and getting the sound clear enough because I moved the mic with minimal of my footsteps to be heard. The thing I enjoyed the most while holding the mic was when I was walking with the people in the scene and had to keep up with their pace of


(This picture is Matt helping us out with filming the car door)

walking. I'm looking mostly for the great content we filmed in our editing and how it will look, hopefully as good as we expect it to be after editing. I personally think we worked well as a team and we all worked very well and cooperatively and listen to each other's problems during the shoot and solved them. We've learnt that in order to make a 2-3 minute film opening it takes longer then I would have expected it to film everything we need for the opening to flow, the different camera angles needed and to make sure it makes sense in editing, I think that we have learnt that we must not rush the shooting for it to look good at the end of the day and keep up the high quality filming in our future shootings for our films. 




(These pictures are Matt showing us the distance at which to film the girls and me holding the microphone from below)



Costume - There were 3 different outfits worne by 3 different girls, the girl who gets into the first taxi wore a black winter coat and grey trousers whilst we filmed her getting into the car. The second girl worn white trainers, black jeans and a black coat. The third girl wore grey sporty trousers, a pink jumper and a black coat. The doggy driver wears a black jacket, a bright coloured shirt and a blue tie whilst behind the wheel. 

Expression - Both of the girls had a facial expression of boredom after the meeting they had in the building come out from, the girls walk out of the building in a slow pace movement, the girl calls her friend in distress and in a panick matter, she gets into the car in a quick pace and in an 'out-of-breath' manner so she doesn't notice who the driver is because all she is worring about is about her friend, whilst she is on the phone with her friend we could see she gets more terrified as she finds that her friend is safe at home and that she got into the wrong car as

Props - The black Mercedez car which picks up the girl in. The second girl had a phone which is shown in the seqeunce whilst she calls her friend whilst in distress in the car as she gets kidnapped.

Shot Types - We had a variety of shots used within the takes, we used the Black Magic camera which had very good quality whilst filming and during post-production the quality will be also good, the sequence starts from a mid-shot to a close-up on the girls when they walk out of the door, there is an over the shoulder shot when one of the girls leans on the window on the left side of the car to give the audience a prespective from the girl when she was talking to the driver. We had a loww angle shot when we filmed the other girl opening the door on the left side and sitting down inside the car. We also had shots inside the car, from the front passengers' seat point of view when the driver tells the girl to be careful and drives off, a shot from the drivers side onto the girl, we didn't have any shots from the back of the car onto the driver from the girls prespective.