Thursday, 27 October 2016

Day of shoot

We met at Mairead's house yesterday, she had the shot list lined up. First we had tea and discussed the project. Then we started filming. I have a small part in the piece. I was filmed first, writing a 'Dear John' letter to Mark's character, Mark is the main actor, we filmed the indoor shots first, then we headed outdoors, we had a few takes of each shot. As my role for assignment 2 is sound/editing, I just kept an eye on continuity on day of shoot. I also tried to give a hand with equipment and keeping it safe etc also. One issue we encountered was that the battery of the camera didn't last long. Therefore, we had to charge it up regularly and took breaks while it was charging. Also, the SD card became full very easily so we needed to upload contents to Mairead's computer to save it as we went. At one stage, it started raining so we needed to alter the storyline to coincide with the rain. I had another small part where Mark's character thought that I was his girlfriend who had left him.... I had a small bit of acting to do also. Then we went to the train station where we got the final shots, we had a coffee and charged up the camera one last time. We headed to the platform and got shots of the train pulling away and Mark trying to stop the train. I have uploaded a copy of all the footage to my computer so now I have everything for editing and adding sound. I am undecided at this moment as to the sound, we got some good natural sound, but also the background noise audio wasn't great on the camera so I'll need to figure out how to eliminate that. All-in-all we had a successful day yesterday filming, we filmed from 12-5 and got loads of shots for me to edit with.

1 comment:

  1. Ciara will you make a note of the camera since the battery seems to no longer hold a charge too well....its important for us to log cameras with issues in order to get replacements. Thanks.

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