Major Project 6 - Filming Week

The week of filming was an incredibly fun and stressful week. Thankfully everything went smoother than I could have hoped, but I was still very nervous about it beforehand anyway. I am proud of all the planning work I had done in the weeks leading up to filming and I think this really helped the shoot run very well. 

It was a great experience having a bit of a crew for this production as it let me delegate tasks to others allowing the whole process to move faster. Directing actors was a very fun experience, making sure they were all comfortable with everything they were doing and understood everything about the characters at that time. 

I think sometimes I struggled to put what I was thinking into words to give them the prompts they needed to give me the performance I wanted. I feel happy with all the footage I got, though I'll have to look through it all next week as I'm editing it together to see for sure.

After each day of filming, I reviewed everything from that day to see if there was anything needing reshooting on the next day. This was only necessary a couple of times, mainly due to the sunlight being too strong when all the rest of the shots were overcast.

Using the gimbal was a new and fun experience. I was really satisfied with the results I got using it for the action shots. The rest of the time I filmed with the camera on my tripod just to add a little bit of stability. 

Overall I'm really happy with the shoot. It went much smoother than I could have hoped. I did a lot of planning and organisation which I think really paid off and let us move really quickly. As well as having the people around me helping me out with other things so I could focus on filming and working with the actors.