Filming Analysis

Now that our shooting days are done and dusted, I'm taking some time to reflect on how they went and what I learned and gained from them.

We filmed in two very different locations; one was a home and the other was city streets. Obviously the lighting in these two locations had to be taken into consideration as natural light is easily accessible in the outdoor location whereas indoors we had to be reliant on artificial lighting. This factor did cause a few problems for us initially when we began shooting indoors but as we had access to two slightly different cameras [Canon 600D and 700D] as the camera operator I was able to adjust the settings and exposure to work as well as it possibly could with indoor lighting. I do believe we could have used some artificial lighting from the university's media shop but we do not have much lighting experience and would probably have found it difficult setting everything up.

Although we did some filming in the early evening as it was getting darker, we did not face any issues with lighting. It was actually really effective to achieve the dark appearance we are looking for with a film based on such a gloomy topic.

I would have liked to get some practice with the cameras done ahead of filming but as we were limited with time, this was not possible. I feel as though if I had done some practice beforehand the shooting process itself would have gone much more smoothly and quicker. I will definitely keep this in mind for any future projects with camera work.


-Scarlett