Evaluation of First day of Filming

To our filming we had a tense start because we had forgotten to ask permission to use Toms neighbour’s dog, fortunately we were able to use Bailey in the short film. We had decided it was best to stick with the story board and film all shots in the same place on the same day. This included all of the exterior shots of Francesca walking the dog, and entering and exiting her house. This included Long shots, mid shots, low and high angle shots. We also had to include all shots using the dog as we only had the day to use him.

When shooting outside the weather was also permitting, it suited the ambience that we wanted to create showing Francesca to be innocent and venerable with a happy life. When leaving the house we used match on action shots, this completes the movement and action. We used various close ups and extreme close ups of little movements such as putting the lead on the dog, hanging her coat up and picking up keys. These shots help crate isolation and danger. Over all the shooting went very successfully as we got executive shots from different angles and distances.

When shooting the exterior with Bailey, we had to shoot parts numerous times as we couldn’t get bailey to look in the right direction. It was defiantly as challenge shooting with a dog as they are unpredictable. However as we were so thorough we felt that we had got a lot of footage that we can work with.

A challenging shot we had to film was of the point of view shot from inside Francesca’s house, we had a very interesting idea that we wanted to be prefect. Our idea was to have Tom falling over with a point of view shot and then Bailey approaching the camera. We tried this numerous times but we had problems that Bailey wouldn’t go to the camera. Francesca then had the idea that if we throw a biscuit over to tom as he is falling it would get Bailey to move. This still had to be carried out a few times because the biscuit wouldn’t go to the right place therefore then Bailey wouldn’t be in the right place either.

Over all, we had a very successful day. We had shot numerous shots, therefore eliminating future re-shooting. This gave us various locations, angles and shots. We worked very as a team every one contributed ideas, we followed all through again to give us more footage. We felt that the setting that we had used helped to deliver us some really aesthetically pleasing shots, exteriorly and internally. With the extra shooting we feel that we have got some really good shots that we can include. The only thing that we feel we could have improved is the organisation. If it had been so that we were unable to use Bailey due to permission we would have been in trouble and the shooting schedule would have gone down the drain, putting us behind.