Shooting

We took the camera at the weekend to do our filming. We filmed in locations including:
Bedrooms
Parks
Pathways
In a car
On our first day of filming, after a few hours, our battery began to run low, so we had to charge it overnight for the next shooting.This is a problem we easily overcame because we were prepared.
A big problem we did face however, was the lighting. Because we had only mainly evenings to do filming, we had to work hard to find certain lighting and angles at which suited the shot best. For example, we wanted the shots of dave in his room to be dark, but so you could see his expressions, so we used a small lamp behind the camera to put light to his face.
Once we uploaded the filming, we found that in the shots we first filmed were just how we wanted them, but as we worked our way through the evening, the lighting became darker in some shots. We will adjust this through Final Cut by making the contrast lighter.

The shots from the park turned out really good. We were going for the 'home movie' look, where, we used the camera as hand held, showing dave filming me as if we were a couple. This was influenced by footage we researched in an 'Eamon video'.

After uploading the footage, we are now going to lip sync the track to our shots and start producing our rough cut.