Production Log 7

What have been the key issues for your production/post production this week?
What decisions did you make about the issues and why?

This week me and Joe began to film our opening sequence. The first location was around Chadwell Heath. This was where we showed my routine to the workplace. We filmed near train rails and when filming made sure that we got a train going past me in the background, just because we thought it would make the shot more affective. This took a while to do as Joe was doing this handheld and we had to do it a few times to get it perfect as it was a bit shaky at times. Also on this day, we filmed me getting on the bus. We done this twice as we wanted two shots, one of the buses coming towards us and one of me getting on the bus. This didn't work out very well the first time round as the shots didn't seem to flow as we stopped filming before the bus even stopped so there was a big jump as the next shot was me suddenly getting on the bus. However we done this again and it was fine. The next day we filmed at out second location which was in a house to get the shots that we needed for that part of the script. We done all the shots we could in that space of time and it took a while to do. We found it difficult to do some of the shots we planned on doing as they were at awkward angles as the bedroom we filmed in was quite small. As we filmed while it was still light outside it was bright in the rooms we were filming in and we had to find ways to make them darker. The bathroom was the brightest so we ended up putting up a towel on the window so it got darker. As in one of the shots we were filming in the reflection of the mirror, we could see the towel over the window so it was quite good for our mise-en-scene. This shot was also slightly difficult to do as we had to try and do it so the camera wasn't in the reflection and also have me fixing my hair still. I found this was one the difficult parts when it came to continuity as my hair and hands needed to be in the same position. Overall considering it was the first day of filming I think we done quite well.