Advert 2 - Shoot 2

Today (5th November) we went out and did some more filming. We were really organised today as we fully charged the camera which we wanted to book out so that there was no risk of it going dead half way through filming and we also organised to go out filming with our actors well in advance to avoid disappointment. We noticed that this organisation made the overall filming a lot easier because it meant that we could just get along with it.

Unlike the first shoot, despite the depressing weather, we spent more time filming different shots and shot angles in order to get a variety for us to choose from when we edit. The filming went well as we got more footage than we did the first time and we filmed more CU shots in order to allow the camera to tell the story rather than the actors and hopefully these will be much better than the first ones we did. In some cases, we got slightly diverted from our storyboard and began experimenting with different shots because when we were on location we began to consider more potentially effective shot angles etc.

Originally, we planned to upload the footage from today's shooting onto the Mac's however we failed to do so because we had problems getting the camera connected to the Mac and onto the software. We also had a huge crisis when we thought we had the tape stuck in one of the camera's, but after about 15 minutes worth of investigating the camcorder, we found out that the tape was stuck because the battery on the camera was too low to operate. We have learned from this incident that rather that wasting time trying to find out how something works we should either move on to something else or try and find help so that we don't waste editing time as well as get less stressed out!!

Plans for tomorrow...
Seeing as we didn't upload the footage onto the Mac's today, me and Hannah are going to use our free's (either P2 or P3) to upload the footage.