Blog Post 43 - Production Diary Filming Session 04/03/15

Today we recorded the last remaining piece of footage outside the college doors before the gates. We recorded the scene where Ezhno wakes up from his dream at the college where Abby consults him when he does. We had difficulties in the beginning because our default settings in our camera that we used were unsuitable for the current lighting, as we wanted as much blur in the background as possible and it was too bright so we had to decrease the aperture in order to make the video darker. We could've also increase the shutter speed so that the video is darker without sacrificing the aperture blur and such, but this meant that the video would appear too shuttered - almost like a fast powerpoint presentation. We also had difficulties in the location where we wanted to film as the sun would appear and disappear all the time. This caused us to change brightness settings all the time which meant that the different shots would have different lighting which meant that the final product would look weird and would seem as if we recorded the different shots on different days. In the end we decided to move the characters sideways on the table we wanted to record on so that the lighting would be identical. We managed to record all the shots we needed before our camera's battery ran out.