Shooting the film

We got started on the short film by producing a quick 1 minute long test film to get a feel for the camera equipment we were using. We did our filming in an art gallery area of the university and the story included me and Chris acting as immature people in the gallery who were annoying Kieron, the mature art lover!

We got started on our main short film by arranging a time to meet up together to come up with a story line and to get the film shot. We met up on thursday and agreed on a story line based upon a doctor consulting a patient and filmed in 1st person from the patients point of view. We arranged to meet again on Monday (yesterday) to get the film recorded. I also went to book the equipment out that we needed along with booking the TV studio to use for filming, which was 1 x HDV camera, 1 x tripod, 1 x lights, blue gels.

We managed to get the film recorded on monday with the only problem being that the first time we filmed it the sound was not recording, but the second take was more successful. We each brought in different props including a lab coat and a stethoscope and used a desk in the TV studio to create the doctors office. In the film I was narrating for the patient whilst also being the cameraman. I enjoyed my role because it meant that I could be featured in the film in addition to being involved with the production, and it allowed me to get more experience with the equipment we were using. I feel that this filming session went well and I'm looking forward to getting the footage transfered to computer and into an editing suite.