Today was our first day of filming and was extremely successful, however not without a couple of hiccups! The day started out with Bea waking up to having the flu, making it impossible for her to get out of bed, let alone film, however because we don't have many days where we can film, we agreed that Brittany and I should still go and film, with the help of our friend Cecy. Not only this, but also we'd left all the equipment at Bea's house, completely uncharged meaning that we had to speedily charge it before I left for Southbank.
Once we arrived at the Southbank Centre, everything began to go a bit more smoothly but we had to remember to be sparing with the camera battery. We decided to start off with the hardest shots in the tunnel because I was worried about lighting Brittany inside it as it was quite dark. After trying out a number of different distances of the light to try and make it not look artificial, we agreed that it would look best if we just filmed closer to the ends of the tunnel with the natural light coming in as we could always edit it to make it look like the tunnel was shorter when she was running through it. This worked out great as we managed to get some really cool silhouette shapes, giving a more ominous feel to the shot. After a couple of hours in the tunnel, we finished all the difficult shots and decided to have a lunch break before we froze!
After lunch, I copied the zoom shots we tried out in our recce which was difficult as sometimes the zoom would be too fast and then sometimes it was difficult to keep up with Brittany's running. However, I noticed that by zooming further in, it looked like a bigger crowd around her, giving a better effect of her dodging around. Our last obstacle was ironically the first shot of the film, of Brittany's feet running towards the camera. This was difficult as Bea and I really wanted the opening shot to be level with her feet on the floor, but without the tripod it was hard to get the camera not looking too lopsided. After experimenting a number of different ways, with the minutes of batteries left on the camera running dangerously low, I decided it might be better to place the camera on top of one of the light boxes. This gave us a couple of really great takes before the camera ran out and we gave up battling the cold. Although I've learnt my lesson on making sure everything is charged, we ended up filming all of the shots that needed to be filmed in the Southbank Centre. A very good first day of filming!
W.H.
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