More filming

Filming
We went filming on Wednesday 19Th and decided to do some of our re-shoots. We had already previously written down the shots which we felt needed re-shooting and used this to help us on the day. Luckily, the weather worked to our advantage because the sun wasn't out and it was more dull like the second time we went filming meaning that the shots won't have as much of a 'light' contrast between them! One problem that we did face was the battery on the camera. When we went to book out a camera earlier in the day, most of them have either a very low battery, or a completely empty battery. We a battery to charge however this wasn't really useful because we had planned to go filming there and then, so we didn't want to waste time waiting for the battery to be charged. Next time, we are going to make sure that we book out a camera the lesson before we want to use it (only if we can quickly pop up to the office before our lesson) in order to give us the maximum time to film. Luckily, after a lot of rummaging through batteries and camera's, we found a battery with about 45-55 minutes left on the battery and used this. It was really annoying however, because when we were trying to get the shot angles right, we couldn't leave the camera on for too long because we didn't have much time left on it before it would die meaning that some of our shots seemed a bit rushed. Another disadvantage was that we couldn't film the end of our advert like we had planned because by the time we had done our re-shoots, the battery was more or less dead and there was no point in starting to film the end part. We overcome this problem by switching off the camera after every shot that we filmed in order for the battery to not be wasted and the fact that we knew what we wanted to re-shoot made it a lot easier because weren't having to worry about what shot we had to film next. We planned to upload and edit the new footage onto the macs the following day, on Thursday, however ended up not doing this, so we plan to do it on Monday of next week. In addition to this, despite feeling like we had to rush our shots, on Thursday we watched the footage on the camera, and the majority of the shots turned out the way we wanted it too, however we aren't getting our hopes up because when we upload onto the Mac's we always have to criticise what we are seeing!!