First Day of Filming on Preliminary.

Today was pretty successful in the way of filming. As we were in the Media Block, we had to try and use the surroundings as best we could. We had already had the idea of making our short film slightly scary and therefore knew we wanted our lighting to be dark/gloomy.
As the room we wanted to use was in use at the time, we tried our first shot in a different place, yet the lighting wasn't as we wanted it and as we knew we were going to be in the other room for the rest of the filming, we knew that the first four shots of Ashley's feet walking towards the door would be useless, and they didn't really have the lighting or the angle we wanted as it wasn't spooky enough.
We then moved to the room we had originally wanted, yet the hall way was too dark leading up to the door and we wanted a 'street light' sort of effect to make it look as though the pizza guy was coming towards the door to make a delivery in the evening. We then set up an artificial light and had to get a extension lead to make sure our light was in the right place.
All through the filming I was checking to see if the angles were right to make sure that we got the angles and the lighting was as I wanted it to be and how it would look best, to bring the effect of a scary film. I also held the artificial light as we filmed Ashley walking towards the door so that it was high enough to be presumed as a street light. This worked really well and by making sure we had no other shadows in the background, aside from Ashley's, allowed it to look pretty good.
We then took just one shot of Ashley's face so that we could go on further to get an eyeline shot with the wedge in the door. I wasn't too pleased with this shot, but knew that if we carried on we would be able to get more done and come back to the shot later and make it look slightly better. We then did the eyeline match of the wedge and slowly filmed down to the floor where the wedge was in the door. I was quite happy with this shot, yet it probably could have been slower and we shall edit it when we get to the editing stage.
Before we got to the 'inside room' shots, we needed to get a shot of Ashley's hand pushing open the door slowly and as if there was something scary inside.
This worked out well and only needed one shot.
We then went inside and had to set up the sofa that the 'inside room' shots would be based around. When this had been done, we needed to get in the eyeline view in which I would be sitting in after we had got our last shot of Ashley. By setting up the camera on the tripod in front of the 'sofa', it made sure that would look as though I was watching Ashley when he walked through the door. The shot took about 4 times to do as we thought he was going a bit fast through the door and wanted the affect of being confused by the wedge in the door and the dark room behind the door. In one fot he shorts we also cut Ahsley's head off and I wasn't pleased with that so the final shot was the one that we agreed on and in the end really matched what we wanted and how the film was going to be set out.
We then needed to try and set up the room to look slightly dimmed but the light had to conentrate on me and make me look sort of scary in order to allow the viewer to see what Ashley was seeing and really question what was going to happen next. We then achieved this by putting the artificial light at the side of the room through an extra door and the light shone onto the area that I was sitting in, which highlighted me more than it did the room around me, meaning I was definitely the main point which is what we had wanted to produce. I then tried to get into a position in which I would look evil and though I was going to do something terrible. I got into a position but Sarah then decided it would be better if we were then to zoom into my face to make sure the audience could get a feel of how the rest of the scene was going to go...
This worked out pretty well but at this point the camera was running out of battery and we therefore needed to stop filming.
All in all the day was very productive and we should soon by well on our way with the editing stages.