Yesterday was our first day filming, we went to Carmen's house to film. Harry and Alex were busy at this particular time therefore me and Carmen had to do the filming of our actress Liza. During this time we filmed most of the house scenes.
This included the shot of Liza walking through the front door. Carmen and I took turns in filming this shot. We both sat on the stairs, one of us holding the tripod steadily on the stairs whilst the other overlooked the filming from behind, just to make sure that the shot we were filming worked effectively. We tried the front door shot many times, we changed height as well, to a low angle, high Angle and a mid shot to see which one worked the best. In the end we decided that the shot that worked the best was the mid shot from front view. We also had to consider the lighting as it was starting to get dark at this time, so we directed Liza to switch the light on as she opened the door to her house. We then filmed Liza walking into the living room in which she puts her jacket and bag down casually on the sofa. Again for this shot me and Carmen both took turns in filming and director. We filmed this shot many times, firstly we tried to shoot it from the right hand corner of the room, which I believe worked well as it got a full view of Liza walking thought the door of the living room and coming in to put her belongings down. We then experimented with different shots, I sat on the top of Carmen's sofa with the camera and tripod to get a closer shot of Liza, however looking at these shots later on, they looked unprofessional as they were slightly wonky and wobbly as the environment we were in was uncomfortable. Carmen and I then moved into the kitchen where we filmed Liza walking through the kitchen door and walk over to the worktop. Carmen filmed this shot as I directed.
then walking into the kitchen where she places her keys on the worktop. We then experimented with different shots of Liza looking into the fridge, we firstly tried a mid shot from the side of her looking into the fridge, we then decided to try a different shot, we placed the camera inside the fridge to film a front close up view on Liza's face. This shot looked very effective as it was different than using a simple shot. We then filmed Liza hearing the white noise in the background, she walks into the living room and turns the TV off as it mysteriously turned on. We then finished filming for the day. Overall the filming of this house scene took us roughly two hours to film. This is because we experimented with different shots and re did many shots to capture the best image, in which we could pick our favorite.
