Filming: Getting it done

Our second day of filming was also a rainy day, but we still planned to film what we could despite it. First, I set up the camera on the tripod. The camera I was using to film was specifically used because it creates a depth of field. One of my main fears when using this camera was that, when filming the music video the same depth-of-field camera kept dying, even after the battery was charged and replaced, and that the camera would do the same thing when filming our final project. Despite my fears about the camera, we headed out to go pick up Sydney, our supporting actress who lived right down the street from where we met up. As soon as we got to her house, it started pouring. The group and I decided to take this time to completely fill Sydney in on the shots we would be doing. After the rain stopped, we manage to take around three shots with multiple takes before my fears about the camera were confirmed. When the camera died, we had to take a break and switch cameras. The camera we switched to was made to zoom and didn't have depth of field. This made it impossible to use to re-shoot one of the shots we had taken with the previous camera, so that might be something we have to re-shoot at a later date to maintain continuity.

Using the new camera, I re-took the shots I could take with the new camera and by then the sun had come out, although there were still rain clouds in the distance. After getting a good amount of takes for the shot's we planned, we got in the car and went to the park. Unfortunately, after the rain, the ground was still wet. This was bad because some of our shots required the main actress to lay down on the ground, and this might mess with the continuity. We decided to just keep filming, and the main actress toughed it out. When filming in the forest, I got to film a lot closer to the actors, which I found refreshing after filming across the street from them during the neighborhood scenes. When filming these scenes, I also decided to change some of what we had on the story board. For example, there was a shot of the main character laying of the ground that I decided to film upside down to make her look more disoriented. My new shot actually ended up looking better than the originally planned one! The last shot was originally supposed to be spinning, but due to the technical difficulties this created, we decided to go for a different shot that ended with a fast pan that we intend to cut at to make it look scarier.

This photo is when we are filming with the first camera. I was scouting out potential places to place the camera, which is where i took this picture from. Joshua is standing by the camera, keeping it dry from the potential rain, and Breanna is helping set Sydney and her dog Lily up for the next shot.