Filming Journal - Main Task

In this blog,  I will explain how the day went when we filmed our main task, things that went well, any problems we encountered and how we solved them. 

The day we filmed our production was on Sunday 14th January. Filming so early on in the year meant it was cold and dark which would of made a good contribution to the theme of our film as it was horror based. We started filming around 3pm. We brought our storyboard and shots list as a guideline on the day. We also brought with us a tripod to film still shots. When filming we managed to get a variety of still shots along with some panning shots. During the day we visited different areas of our location to film the shots we needed. We filmed our shots in chronological order starting off with the shot in the car park. We thought that this would make it easier when it came to editing and it would of looked better as it got darker through our scenes. We took several shots of the car turning in because we noticed that our first shot was to blurry.  After filming in the car park, we then walked into the woods to film our next set of shots. Our next shot started off with our characters walking towards the camera. This was a straightforward shot as no movement was needed with the camera and our actors  were well prepared and knew what they need to do. However, the next shoot we filmed was a panning shot where dog (buddy)  was chasing one of the actors (Evangeline). This shot was harder to film than we expected as the dog did not to what we asked it to do. This also meant that Macy had to go on set.  Therefore to overcome this problem we bought with us some dog biscuits to bribe buddy to move where we wanted him too.  This went well as we finally got the shot we needed.  Our costume plan went really well as our actors had no problems getting the costumes they needed as they already matched the type of costume they would wear on a daily basis. Also, we were unable to film at the top of the hill as one of our actors playing (Patrick) was unable to climb the hill therefore Macy went up with our other actor to film the shots we needed. 


We were very productive in filming our main task as we got all the shots we needed in the one day and therefore didn't have to plan to film another day. It went smoothly and there were no big problems that we encountered which would of stopped us from filming certain shots.

When filming our Main task, we realized that it got dark to quickly, and therefore the shots we filmed were to dark to be able to see what was going on. However, this only affected one of our shots at the end of the scene where one of our characters were tied to a tree. We solved this problem when we came to editing our film and used a tool to lighten up the shot so it was easier to see. In the future, to improve I think it would of been better to film earlier on in the day as it got dark to quickly and this affected one of the important shots we were meant to film. Also, this would have given us more time to film more shots of the area to add into our main task.

Overall filming took 3 hours.