Filming Day 4

Location: The Barn House Date: 6th October 2010 Meeting time: 9:00am After collecting a new camera, we were ready to go! We planned to film shots of ourselves that we had planned over the weekend. As we were using a brand new camera we had to adjust the lighting, this was hard as every setting gave a cloudy and dull look. After a while we managed to adjust this by changing the camera to an indoor setting with a lower white balance. However, we faced some problems:

• The location of the barn house was very dim, this made it very hard for us to get brightly lit shots.


• The camera was somewhat broken, and kept zooming in and out on its own. This made it extremely difficult for us to get the right shot as we had to move the whole camera around instead of being able to use the zoom button.


• We found it hard to work with the space that we had as the rooms seemed smaller when we were trying to film and frame our shots.


• The furniture in the house did not relate to our genre well, it seemed old fashioned which was not good as we wanted to portray a modern look.


• Finally, the camera on the battery died! That was when we realised that today's filming was not meant to be!

What did we do next? We decided on a relocation... Due to the dim lighting in the barn house we needed to find another filming space, consequently we chose Sophie's house, her house was particularly homely and very well lit!

After dismissing filming we realised we were now placed behind schedule. We plan to film on Friday and this will be at Sophie's house. We also hope that the new location will be better for us as the house belongs to one our own members!