For the past week i have had 3 days in which i have been ready and prepared to film. The only problem is, is that follow class mates have not been returning equipment, even when i have approached them and maturely asked them if i could use it on the certain days. Because of this, it has now leaded me to fall even further behind than i already was. Luckily, the school technician has informed me that she has ordered a new batch of Panasonic HP cameras, and will save one for me.
I have now organised to reshoot on Wednesday the 16TH December. Fingers crossed i won’t come across more problems!
Tuesday 22 December 2009
More problems:
Two weeks have passed by and neither Cat nor Ryan have been available, ive been getting really frustrated because there is nothing else i can do until i have the footage. To make things worse, Ryan, my lead man has unfortunately been in a car crash, meaning he won’t be able to be used for another week or two. During this time i have considered using a different actor, however i realised that means redoing everything, when the stop frame footage i took is usable still, so it would make sense to wait for Ryan to recover.
First shoot:
I organised my first shoot to be done at my house on a convenient ILP day with Catherine O’Brien and Ryan Carroll. It didn’t really matter where i filed – seeing as i was shooting it against a green screen.
I set it all up in my front living room where the lighting appeared best. The shoot was really good, we encountered no problems and everything went smoothly until i uploaded the footage. When i first attempted to edit the green screen away i realised it wasn’t lighted efficiently, there where slight shadows, making me realise how sensitive the software is to pick up the certain shade of green needed for it to work. Everything i shot that day was now unable to be used, causing a lot of frustration in the fact that i came to realise how difficult i have made this project for myself. The only positive thing i can say that came from this mistake is that i know where i have gone wrong now, and will hopefully avoid the same situation on the next shoot. To try avoid the same situation i may talk to the drama teachers to use the drama studio lights, this way the lighting will wash the shadows out of the green screen rather than attempt to use lamps, which will most likely be inefficient.
I set it all up in my front living room where the lighting appeared best. The shoot was really good, we encountered no problems and everything went smoothly until i uploaded the footage. When i first attempted to edit the green screen away i realised it wasn’t lighted efficiently, there where slight shadows, making me realise how sensitive the software is to pick up the certain shade of green needed for it to work. Everything i shot that day was now unable to be used, causing a lot of frustration in the fact that i came to realise how difficult i have made this project for myself. The only positive thing i can say that came from this mistake is that i know where i have gone wrong now, and will hopefully avoid the same situation on the next shoot. To try avoid the same situation i may talk to the drama teachers to use the drama studio lights, this way the lighting will wash the shadows out of the green screen rather than attempt to use lamps, which will most likely be inefficient.
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