1. Diary:
12/11/2015:
We filmed the Valentine’s meal scene at Freya’s
grandparent’s house today. While I was filming I
thought the best way to get a natural unforced
feeling to come across to the camera was to let Freya
and Billy just chat and eat and not tell them when I
had pressed record. They didn’t really like this as
they didn’t know if they could look at the camera but
I thought it helped make the scene easier to film as
they didn’t get too nervous and have to re-film the
shot because they weren’t sure if they were being
filmed yet.
I felt as though the actual filming too less time
than I’d expected it to. We spent about an hour and a
half but I thought we’d need longer.
13/11/2015:
We filmed two scenes at Billy’s parent’s house today.
The first scene we filmed was the New Year’s Eve
party scene. To try and recreate the typical lighting
you would have at a party we turned the lights off
and I stood with the torch on my phone shining on
Freya and Billy or the clock. Due to myself not
adjusting the ISO to compensate for not having
natural lighting the final clips have a bit of
blurriness to them. As I reviewed the clips after I
had gone home I didn’t have time to re-film the clips
with a more suitable ISO. Next time I film I think I
might review the clips while I am still at the
location so I can re-film anything if needed.
We also filmed Karma’s Birthday scene. This scene
didn’t take very long as I (again) didn’t tell Freya
and Billy when I had pressed record.
15/11/2015
We filmed the dog walking scene in a forest in Acle.
This scene only took a while to get the shots right
as Smudge (the dog) isn’t a trained acting dog
therefore took a bit of time to get him to do what we
wanted him to. Closer to the end of the filming
2. session the camera started to die so we had to speed
up getting the shots we wanted, however I don’t think
this effected the final outcome of this scene.
16/11/2015
Today, we filmed the coffee date scene. This filming
session had to be hurried as I’d forgotten to charge
the camera and it was flashing low battery at me. I
don’t think that having to film quickly effected the
final clips, however I would have preferred to have
had more time. Next time I think I might charge the
camera after every filming session if I use my own
one again.
20/11/2015
We filmed two scene at college. This was actually the
first filming session that Max was able to stay for
which I thought was quite nice as we got to work as a
complete group instead of just parts of the group.
While filming Issac’s birthday scene (we had planned
to screen record a Skype call) we learnt that we
could not get on Skype on the college Wi-Fi. So, Max
thought of the idea to film Freya speaking to the
webcam on the laptop then Billy speaking to the
webcam and during the editing we put them together.
We also filmed the moving in together scene. The room
that we used had stairs leading straight up to the
door, like an actually apartment building, so we
decided to film going up the stairs as a POV shot.
22/11/2015
Today, I sat up in my bedroom and took 413 pictures
of a calendar. I thought that I’d actually get
really, really bored and hate doing it. However, I
quite liked it and feel like the roughly four and a
half hours doing the same thing over and over again
actually paid off and was worth it so that the film
had an extra element (of stop motion animation) to
it.
