Filming: shoot day 3 reflection

We filmed our third day of filming on the 13th March, in the school art gallery which had an exhibition at the time of filming. We decided to film in this location because we wanted to end the film with the protagonist exhibiting the photographs she has taken; it will be here that she realises who is in the background of the pictures and the trailer will end with the figure of her 'dead' partner in the window of the gallery. The lighting in the gallery was very natural due to the amount of windows within the building - with the weather being bright but overcast, it gave us the right amount of light to not require additional lighting.

As the art gallery is within the school premises, we had to gain permission from both the art department and the main office to ensure we would be allowed to film in there. This was done verbally as it was easier to gain a quick answer, and both of these places agreed to us filming in there. The front office asked us to follow the regular school rules of not photographing/filming pupils who haven't given permission due to safe guarding reasons, so we had to make sure that we didn't capture anyone in the background of the shots.

Similar to the rest of the shooting days, we used the Panasonic SD-700 alongside a 8GB memory card; we decided that we didn't need a larger storage capacity on the card as we were only shooting one scene, and we were also very close o the media department so if we did happen to run out of memory, we would be able to fetch a second card without wasting time. Again, we only bought one fully charged battery that had 90 minutes of battery life because we didn't feel that we were going to be longer than this amount of time, and we would be able to get a second if we needed to. We also bought the storyboard so that we could use it for reference and follow the shots we had planned; as with the other shooting days we filmed a number of extra shots so that we would have a variety to choose from if the original shot didn't come out as we had planned. There was no plan for dialogue so we didn't feel it was necessary to use a microphone.

When we uploaded the footage, we felt that we had achieved what we aimed for the resolution of the film trailer. We filmed a number of experimental shots that helps to build the tension at the end of the trailer, and we will intersperse these throughout the final scene. There were multiple endings that we decided to film so that we could discuss which would be more effective with our teachers, as we weren't sure as to which would create the best ending the would engage the audience the most. There are some post editing techniques that we will have to carry out as some of the footage has a blue tint to it; we think this is as a result of the light exposure in the gallery, but this was something we couldn't control but can be easily rectified.