Film schedule

1st Weekend:

Today we filmed shots for our opening rough cut. The weather was raining and suited our conventions of our horror. However, this may be a problem when we return to reshoot clips for our final opening. This is because weather is unreliable and waiting for similar conditions may prove to be some time.
The rain got too much so we eventually gave up for that weekend.

Whilst editing our opening we identified several problems. Firstly, some footage contained props that shouldn't have been in the shot. We were unable to crop the footage to remove the prop from view because it was in the centre of the screen. We also discovered that some of our filming could be refilmed to improve the quality of the shot. Finally, when editing, we noticed that more clips/camera angles would vastly improve the quality of our final product. We therefore planned to refilm a few shots and also film the odd new camera angle/shot.


2nd Weekend:

As planned we refilmed certain clips and filmed new footage.
Annoyingly, this time round we had sunny weather which then decided to rain once we had pretty much filmed most of what we needed to. However after replacing most of the shots, and filtering them all on the computer, the difference in weather became hardly noticeable.
Filming didn't take as long as before because we had a clear idea of what to film after having a group discussion, whereupon we included a wider variety of shots and more interesting camera angles.


3rd Weekend:

After criticisms of our opening being too short we met up again to film more shots to introduce to the beginning of the opening, to make up the two minutes we needed.
The weather was again different and the sound of the wind kept being picked up on the microphone. However luckily we are muting the sound on all the shots so as we would just have a soundtrack.


Setting:

The main problem we faced with our filming schedule was finding days when we were all free. Because only one of us lived within walking distance of the setting the other group members had to arrange to get the one group member's house. It would've been easier to film if we all lived closer so as we could then film on weekdays and/or weekends.
We overcame this problem by planning in advance the weekends upon which we would film; organisation therefore helping filming run more smoothly, and deadlines to be met with ease.