After games we all met in Tescos car park to be picked up by Vicki's grandad! We all bundles inside the car and were on our way to our 'filming location'. When we got there we had to wait for it to get dark as this darkness would add to our mis en scene and was in our planning stages. We contemplated using the darkening filters on the macs at editing stage but decided against it because it was nearly dark anyway so it would just be easier to wait as we would have run out of time trying to film in the light. So we sat around brainstorming our ideas further and planning where and how exactly to filming (e.g. the line/ where the camera must go) and had a general run through of our filming.
All of a sudden it was dark, and we commenced filming. With camera in hand we were off to a wonky start...
We corrected the camera legs and... ACTION (or 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Action as we were told - to allow the camera to fire up and make sure we had enough film either end of our clip in editing)
We filmed the outside beginning shots first. Which is were we had our first problem...well one and a half!
1.) We all thought we would rather have the camera gliding to the house. But as the driveway was gravel it was difficult for us to use wheels e.g. on a skateboard or office chair or anything like that. We contemplated using a car but the turnover from car to walking would just be too difficult for us to line it all up and have the car driving at the same speed etc every time! So we stuck to walking, which is were our second problem cropped up...
1a.) The sound of the footsteps was so loud on the gravel. But we knew in the editing stages we could turn the volume down, meaning it was only a minor blip.
We all had a few goes at walking up to the house so we would get a variety of different peoples shots and we would be able to choose the best version when we were in the editing stages. We had to make sure the camera man ended the shot perfectly in the center of the diamond on the door so it would be easy for us to join up the camera inside the door. This went well and we got the shots done quiet quickly.
So we moved inside to film the camera coming in the door and the babysitters first conversation. From the outside shots, we had to make sure the camera was aligned perfectly on the diamond,of the door which took a bit of time, but we got it perfect in the end!
Suddenly, on filming the corridor pan we came across a dilemmas which we needed to solve, and fast... In our storyboard we wanted the camera to float through the door and glide into the room where the babysitter was sitting watching TV and generally chilling. But when we were tried to put this into motion, we found it was more difficult than we were expecting. There was a massive blip on the floor where it turned from wood to carpet! So putting our thinking caps on, we played around with some ideas to solve the inconvenient bump. There were many ideas thrown in the pot like skateboard and just a person walking with the camera. But in the end we came up with a somewhat improvised idea...
We had Leah lying on the floor (out of view of the camera lens) she pulled the doormat along the wood up to the point of the carpet, were simultaneously, without slowing down or fastening the movement of the camera, Vicki and i would pull the mat all the way through the door and to the point where we could see Jess.
So, we were quick to solve this dilemma, but we went into filming knowing that it's not unusual to find flaws and problems when filming, which is what we found out during our continuity task!
Also we all completely forgot just how long it would take us to film. We thought we would whizz through and get it all filmed in one night! Well, we're not even half way after that nights filming...
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