Day One of Filming
One my favorite quotes from "The Shining" is "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." But it seems like with filming I took this quote too seriously. We started our first night of filming on Monday March 26th. After briefing everybody on the premise of what I wanted to accomplish we set out to work. Or at least attempted to...
After about 3 hours of trying out different things and nit picking each scene we did end up with a lot more blooper material than actual opening content. Nonetheless, I am glad with the progress that we did make. About an hour in we took things more seriously and worked towards at least getting the first scene of the car pulling up done. The reason it took us an hour was because there were a lot of factors that I did not consider that became a problem once filming started.
First of all, I realized I still hadn't worked out how I was going to handle the issue of microphones and audio. While brainstorming together we decided to have a phone at a different spot recording audio from a different angle, meaning that if the audio did not sound well on the video, we could mute the video itself and layer the phone audio on top of it. This turned the filming of the first scene into something very tedious.
When the car itself pulled up, the team was completely split on whether it should sound close or far away. So the camera and phone audio is still a toss up. Our next filming night is on April 2nd, and now that we got a lot of the problems sorted out it seems like next session will be much more productive.
After about 3 hours of trying out different things and nit picking each scene we did end up with a lot more blooper material than actual opening content. Nonetheless, I am glad with the progress that we did make. About an hour in we took things more seriously and worked towards at least getting the first scene of the car pulling up done. The reason it took us an hour was because there were a lot of factors that I did not consider that became a problem once filming started.
First of all, I realized I still hadn't worked out how I was going to handle the issue of microphones and audio. While brainstorming together we decided to have a phone at a different spot recording audio from a different angle, meaning that if the audio did not sound well on the video, we could mute the video itself and layer the phone audio on top of it. This turned the filming of the first scene into something very tedious.
When the car itself pulled up, the team was completely split on whether it should sound close or far away. So the camera and phone audio is still a toss up. Our next filming night is on April 2nd, and now that we got a lot of the problems sorted out it seems like next session will be much more productive.
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