Foundation Production Evalution: Filming Draft

Technical difficulties encountered:

We experianced some difficulties with keeping the tri-pod steady due to the wind constantly shaking it from side to side , this was a big problem for us because it made the camera shake resulting in all the shots looking fuzzy and hard to watch.We solved this problem by getting one person to hold down the tri-pod while another person from our group would film, we also encounted a problem with the sudden change of light which resulted in the filming being postponed for the next day. This however was a good lesson to learn especially since our group were in the early stages of filming , we learnt that when you go filming, you have to get as much shots as possible and get those shots as fast as possible because the weather could change unexpectedly and delay film time. Apart from those technical difficulities mentioned above we did not experiance any more technical difficulties.

Technical decisions you made on the spot :

A lot of the technical decisions were made on the spot because I wanted to make sure that our group got a lot of different shots from different angles , for example in one of our scenes I wanted to portray one of characters as a powerful and authoritative figure. So we decided to take a variety of  low angle shots from the back , left side , right side and the front of our actor to make sure that we had a lot of shots to choose from. We did however discuss as a group before going out to film how the movement of the camera should be, for example we agreed that our main characters will have some panning shots in order to make them stand out and give the audience an idea of who the main characters are.


Changes from screenplay/ storyboard:

We did not have any problems with the screenplay whilst filming so we didn't have to change anything. However we did have to make some changes to the storyboard , due to the fact that on the day that we went  filming  we made a slight  mistake with the location and ended up on the wrong bridge. It was already late when this mistake happened and all we needed was one shot which was the chase scene, the light was slowly changing so we decided to just adapt to the situation and shoot on the wrong bridge. In conclusion we just made a slight change to the storyboard and added 3 more scenes.