This weekend was filled with filming. On Saturday, I helped out my friend who’s in A level with his project. He’s doing a short film and he asked me to be in it. We filmed from around 2 to 6:30, so basically that entire day was spent filming. I had fun tho, his short film is really cool.
[Me on the left, the guy who’s project it is in the middle, and another actor on the right]
Then on Sunday (since my sister finally left) I filmed my opening. I was able to get it all done!! I filmed from 7:30 to around 9ish. But, before I could start filming I had to get everything ready. Soooo to make sure I wouldn’t forget anything, I wrote out everything I needed to have ready before I could film.
Once I wrote all that down, I got everything ready to start filming. The first thing I did was create the poster board. That one took me a while, but here’s the finished product:
[its very light, sorry bout that]
After I finished the poster I got to work on arranging the bedroom to how I wanted it to look. The only thing that I needed to do was set up the workspace of Iris and here’s what I came up with.
Now about the materials that I used. Tripods were my best friend during filming. I filmed the entire thing basically by myself, so using a tripod was incredibly useful, especially to keep everything from looking all wonky. I also stole my brother for a little bit to film the stuff that required someone who was tall, such as the shot where I grab the box from the closet, which would’ve been literally impossible with a tripod that is barely as tall as me.
As you can probably tell by the picture, I went with a blue lighting to frame the room. I used my sister’s LED lights on her walls, which was very useful. Then I used a ring light to light the things that needed a bit more. Like when I filmed my face, I shined the ring light towards me so I wouldn’t be all dark and blue. The ring light was set to a yellow color, cause I thought that brought out the best tone for my film.
[In this close up you can see the blue lighting in the background and the yellow ring light on my face. I like how the ring light created a shadow on the other side of my face cause it creates a sense of mystery that is important in this scene]
Oh, wait I forgot to mention: costume design. So, I decided to dress myself in a comfy fit as Iris is just at home working on her project. I ended up wearing a blue University of Florida jacket, fitting in with the theme of blues. For pants I decided on a pair of sweatpants, again alluding to the home vibe that I have goin on. For my socks, I wore two mismatched spider-man socks because why not, I love spider-man. I didn’t focus too much on costume design as for my opening is set in Iris’ home, so a comfy fit was the way to go.
For my actual camera, I used my phone, but I used an app called BlackmagicCam to get the cinematic look that I wanted to have. I watched a video on how to use the app and once I got the hang of it, it got really easy, plus it made my shots look wayyy cooler.
The biggest problem that I had while filming on Sunday was doing it all myself. Before every shot I had to make sure I was framed properly in the video, but that was hard to do as I couldn’t see myself as I filmed. I had to just trust that I was in the center, or wherever I needed to be for the shot, and if I wasn’t in the center, I would have to re-film it until I was. It was so frustrating to continuously be redoing shots because the composition wasn’t right, which I think would’ve been wayyy easier if I had someone else behind the camera, but I didn’t really have that option since it was already late at night and the only person who i could’ve asked would be my brother, which I already felt bad for asking him to film a bunch of stuff for me. In hindsight, I probably could’ve filmed last weekend while my sister was here and actually get her to be behind the camera, but whatever, I got it to work and that’s all that matters.
[just another pic of the set up :)]
After this weekend that was PACKED with filming, I’ve come to realize that being behind the camera is not my strong suit. As I watched my friend film his short film and having a whole crew behind him (he got another one of our friends to be behind the camera while he acted and another person to hold the boom mic) I realized that that is not for me. My friend used a whole bunch of professional equipment that he borrowed from BECON, which looked cool, but that would’ve been way too intense for me, so my phone was the way to go. But, I’m excited to start editing, because that’s the kind of stuff that I actually like. Well that is what I’ve liked when we’ve done our past projects in this class, we’ll see how it goes for this project.
[figured this would be a great way to end the post ;)]
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