Portfolio Project - Shooting Process

 Intro:

This week, my group and I had finally begun our filming process. It turns out, most of the conflict before was just communication issues. If we kept at the same pace as yesterday, the day we filmed, we would be just fine for the rest of the project. Besides all that, our main goal for yesterday was the filming of our first scene, the car segment. Personally, I was very excited for this part because I really enjoy driving and doing stuff like that. The goal was to get as much footage as possible of the car stuff. That being said, once we had gotten to the location I had mentioned in one of my previous posts, we had realized we were thoroughly unprepared. The shots we had written on our storyboard were actually extremely difficult to set up in real life. Once we had come to this conclusion, we had to figure out a way to film those shots. We came to the conclusion that the best solution would be to purchase this mount from Amazon to mount a camera to parts of the car. However, Amazon is not instant and the product would take at least 1 day to arrive. Because of this, we had divided up our shots into 2 categories.

Film:

Shots that would require the mount, and shots that would not. By doing so, we were able to effectively film as much as possible without rushing our process and sacrificing nicer shots just to be done with it. The shots we filmed included simpler scenes like outside shots of the car. We have a few of the car going down a street filmed from outside on the street. These shots were relatively simple and did not take many takes. Not to mention, the planning that went into picking the location had paid off, since we were able to pretty much have that road to ourselves. Once we compile those shots, it will be easier to tell whether we need more shots of the car to keep the scene engaging since a 10-20 second scene of a car would be quite dull and boring. Working in a group of 3, we had 1 of us standing on the sidewalk filming the other 2 flying by in the car. We were all happy with how it came out, but it may need to be more visually engaging in the final product.

We were also able to film the death scene of Sarah, Adam's partner. This was really fun for the entire group since we got to use the makeup that we had practiced before for the actual film itself. (To see footage of the makeup production, please refer to below.) We had also made an attempt at depicting the crash as well, but I am not really sure whether that will make it to the final product. For this, we had a group members car parked and with their headlights on full blast. To simulate the crash, I was in charge of driving head on into her car as quickly as possible before steering off course as late as possible. This part was especially engaging. But, for everyone's safety I obviously maintained a safe distance and safe speed throughout the entire thing.