I just finished filming (for today), and thought it would be a great idea to inform you all about the progress of my film. We started filming at around 2pm as I wanted the amount of sunlight to be at a certain intensity, though here in the UK we don't have that problem much, but indeed today I wasn't happy with the weather as it did not match with the mood I was going for.
So I met up with my crew at around 1:30pm to go through what sort of concept and theme I was going for and thankfully that mini meeting went great as I got the feeling that both Sei-Kai and Danny knew what they were doing, which had an amazing outcome at the end. My cast were a bit late though, as I had told them that the meeting time would be 15 minutes before the filming time and they arrived two minutes before we were actually supposed to shoot. However, throughout the filming process I was happy with how the flow of filming process went very smoothly with no major problems and was satisfied with how both my cast and crew knew exactly what I wanted and understood my directions very quickly.
One major problem: Though I loved how perfectly the light was when we were filming, at some point the camera's battery ran out, and so cause we were close to the UCA Rochester campus we ran to re-charge it for a few minutes. BUT, when we went back to shoot again the sun had gone down which will affect the continuity in my film and will make it difficult to fix whilst I'm editing. Another problem was that a few minutes after we started shooting again, the battery ran out again, and so cause we had no time to waste and the sun was going lower, I broke one of the most important rules in the filming industry which was to "Never use a phone's camera to shoot. Only if it's absolutely essential". Yes yes I did it, and I felt so guilty about it, but I had no other option as my male actor, Tom, was available only today, the canon camera has only ONE battery and this is the last weekend before the deadline, sooooooo tough luck for me.
But I would like to thank every single person that helped me film today, and I'm very grateful for my crew for popping in last minute, as my previous crew members cancelled on me last minute (meaning last night) which had me panicking... But all is good and I can't wait for tomorrow's shoot with Hayley for the bedroom scene.
Thanks for reading,
Yours,
I.
So I met up with my crew at around 1:30pm to go through what sort of concept and theme I was going for and thankfully that mini meeting went great as I got the feeling that both Sei-Kai and Danny knew what they were doing, which had an amazing outcome at the end. My cast were a bit late though, as I had told them that the meeting time would be 15 minutes before the filming time and they arrived two minutes before we were actually supposed to shoot. However, throughout the filming process I was happy with how the flow of filming process went very smoothly with no major problems and was satisfied with how both my cast and crew knew exactly what I wanted and understood my directions very quickly.
One major problem: Though I loved how perfectly the light was when we were filming, at some point the camera's battery ran out, and so cause we were close to the UCA Rochester campus we ran to re-charge it for a few minutes. BUT, when we went back to shoot again the sun had gone down which will affect the continuity in my film and will make it difficult to fix whilst I'm editing. Another problem was that a few minutes after we started shooting again, the battery ran out again, and so cause we had no time to waste and the sun was going lower, I broke one of the most important rules in the filming industry which was to "Never use a phone's camera to shoot. Only if it's absolutely essential". Yes yes I did it, and I felt so guilty about it, but I had no other option as my male actor, Tom, was available only today, the canon camera has only ONE battery and this is the last weekend before the deadline, sooooooo tough luck for me.
But I would like to thank every single person that helped me film today, and I'm very grateful for my crew for popping in last minute, as my previous crew members cancelled on me last minute (meaning last night) which had me panicking... But all is good and I can't wait for tomorrow's shoot with Hayley for the bedroom scene.
Thanks for reading,
Yours,
I.
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