Filming Diary: Day 2- 22nd November

Today we went to a surrounding neighborhood to film on our friend's land and the roads around his house. The scene we were doing was to do with pyros and followed 2 people around, messing about. We encountered various problems which may lead to a re-shoot day early next week! The scene we planned was for any weather bar rain and wind, so of course it was rainy and windy. We still shot the scene although some shots with the pyro looked poor as the wind was taking the colored smoke faster than we would have liked, leaving a vague smoke trail. As the conditions were poor, we had to change our idea from the storyboard. This proved dangerous as in some shots we messed up as we were running out of time. This lead to re-shooting to allow us more footage and different angles and movements of the camera with some shots turning out better as it gave us a variety of different shots.

There were some positives of filming today. Firstly, it allowed us to go through the actual scene beforehand, enabling us to get some sort of idea of what we were going to film. We needed to practice shoot before as we had limited pyros and did not want to waste any as they are fairly expensive. More benefits also were time management. Although we were running out of time, we managed our problems and filming within 2 hours. This means that if we need to re-film next week, we should have a vivid image of what it is exactly we are filming as well as the fact we know it should take less than 2 hours which is important as the nights get dark fast so filming time will be short.
Although there were a few positives, i feel that the whole filming was quite bad. We turned up unorganized for these conditions which added up to 30 mins more onto the filming time. Luckily, we only used 1 flare suggesting if re-filming is required, we will not have to wait for delivery of resources as we have one. Also, hopefully on Monday, if we need to re-film, the weather will be some what good and the wind and rain won't be a problem.
Next time we film, we will take into consideration the predicted weather forcast to make sure it is worth filming on that day, we don't want to waste more time if the footage we take is of worse quality.

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