Blog Task 43 - Production Reflection, filming 26/01/15

Monday 26th January was our first proper day of filming for Mirrordream. We stayed in college to film one of the first scenes of the title sequence; Ezhno (Jakub) and Abby (Lindsey/myself) filming at the front of the college. Ezhno walks into college and sees Abby sitting on the bench doing work, he walks over to her and sits down, casually conversing with her and asking her whether she's done the homework for the lesson. Ezhno reaches out for the paper Abby's holding and whilst doing so, she notices a scar on Ezhno's wrist, which leads him to leave abruptly.

Due to what's happening within the scene, it's understandable that it needed to be filmed within college for this to make sense. As a group, we decided that outside on the benches would be the best area to film this, due to the amount of people inside the college during the times we were able to film, ensuring that there would be no interruptions or mistakes whilst filming this scene.

My group and I set up the filming equipment outside and I went to sit down on the bench that would be used in the scene. There were many takes that we had to do to make sure that the camera angles and so on were right. For example: Seren had to take Jakub's place whilst filming so that he could set up the camera properly and he understood where to sit and what to do.

After watching the footage back in the process of editing, I think that we could've done it a little bit better. Some of the problems we encountered were: the fact that there was too much background noise so you were unable to hear our voices, it took longer than expected due to people walking in/out of college when we were filming, disrupting the shots and also Jakub and I laughing within some of the takes.

We're going to re-film this as soon as possible (after the half term) and try to avoid these things happening and hopefully act a little more professionally so that the message of our film is conveyed clearly. This is a vital scene for the film and so by re-filming, the overall outcome should be improved drastically.