Wednesday, November 28, 2007

First Filming Day*


At last, our group begins filming this week. Indeed, I found that the shooting schedule is quite simple although we have to make 3 short video. We only have 2 different shooting place, one is indoor which is located in our group mate -- Dama's home; another is outdoor which we plan to shoot in front of Blue Building, then we need not to carry the camera gear for a long way.

The first filming location is Dama's home.
Before the taking of the film, I consider the 3 videos' total duration may not fulfill the minimum requirement of 3 mins as we found that the products may be rather short according to the script, but anyway we are going to shoot them first and make decision. Also, when I am designing the shot list for the Lover or Friend Version, I planed to have some scenes that the screen is cut into half and both sides are playing at the same time. Yet due to the technical problem that is the function of iMovie does not have this editing function, I have to find another suitable method to present the video which I am still considering now.


During the first filming day, we have invited one of our classmates and Dama's friend as actors in the Family Version. However, since we have a little bit delay of our shooting schedule, the actors can not be join the shooting. Luckily, our group member -- Dama and another classmate -- Faye, help to participate the shooting so that we can complete the filming.

Really really Thanks for Faye. Indeed, we didn't expect Faye to help on acting, she just plan to come to our shooting location to help us about the shooting problem about camera (which is also a great assist to us), finally she become our actress. And she is really good at acting, most importantly she provided us some useful suggestions on how to shoot and she really cooperate well with us.

During the shooting, when we are setting the gear, we are not able to hear both sides from the headphone. Luckily, after we asked our classmates(thanks Alan), we have fixed the problem. We are not able to hear because we plugged the microphone in the wrong channel.


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