So today we managed to film the entirety of our first film! Myself, Alex, Lili, Guy and Liam all went out onto Location along with Ebony the dog. Very successful. Lili and Alex took up the main roles as Cameramen/women whilst I took care of making sure Ebony worked well with Liam and was able to act correctly on set. I also took up the role of being main sound guy ensuring we got all the necessary audio we may need later in post.
We shot on the Sony Z7, a new camera to me which shot onto tape which is also a new one on me. It did of course mean we could only shoot in Standard Definition compared to High Definition, though I do feel it will add a certain style to the film which we won't see in our rival films and keep it in genre for the film. Using the camera, we went almost entirely hand-held seeing as it is a very fast paced film and the camera needs to reflect that. Fortunately the camera has its own shoulder mount and hand held capabilities which made it much easier to do run-and-gun style shooting for the piece.
a new camera to me which shot onto tape which is also a new one on me. It did of course mean we could only shoot in Standard Definition compared to High Definition, though I do feel it will add a certain style to the film which we won't see in our rival films and keep it in genre for the film. Using the camera, we went almost entirely hand-held seeing as it is a very fast paced film and the camera needs to reflect that. Fortunately the camera has its own shoulder mount and hand held capabilities which made it much easier to do run-and-gun style shooting for the piece.
A few shots from the shoot:
Now we have the filming down though, it does mean we are well on target for getting this film done on time, if not several hours before the deadline of 18:00 on Friday evening! Feeling extremely pleased. All concerns from yesterday concerning the timing completely gone.
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