Diary of a Day Shooting 3

Wednesday 2nd January 2013

2:00pm Everyone arrived at Scarlett's house which was going to be the location of filming. We spent the first  hour doing hair, make-up and checking costumes were okay. We also set up the camera in the room we were using to check we could get some good shots.

2:45pm Slightly ahead of schedule, we began filming in the party scene location. We started off by doing some shots, however as most of the people were driving we decided to use water instead of vodka for safety issues as we had to do the shot more than once. We made sure to get a range of shots including close-ups of the artist and important scenes to the storyline. We put on party music to get everyone in the mood so the footage would look realistic. We got some good shots however to make it look more realistic, we could have made some more extras in the background or shot at a real party as it looks a bit set up.

4:30pm We then noticed it was beginning to get dark outside so decided to film our outside footage. We wanted it to be dark as it would need to look like evening time, however we didn't want it too dark so that it was bad lighting. To film this scene, we had Bobby driving his car slowly down the road, whilst Megan was in the back with the boot open, filming. The girls then walked towards the car as it drove away from them, staying at the same distance apart. We originally had some problem with the lighting but had the idea to get a light up on someones phone and put it near the camera. This worked well and gave us better lighting.

5:00pm We then shot the arriving to the party scene, we shot the girls from the outside going into the house aswell as from the inside, coming into it. We did this so we could show some continuity when editing the video. We had to do the take a few times to make sure we were in the same positions as we only had one camera so had to film them seperately.

5:30pm We had decided we wanted to reshoot the sparkler scene in a darker location as before we filmed during the day and it hadn't looked to good. As it was still a good lighting for filming but getting dark, we decided it was a good time to reshoot. We went by a fence near a field and lit the sparklers, however because of the wind it was quite hard to get them lit and this took some time. The reshoot was successful as the sparklers showed up a lot better in the dark, and we had made sure to get ones with a bigger spark than last time.