On day one we were shooting on location at the Hacker’s house (Jack’s House). Our actor turned up on time wearing the correct and appropriate clothing, this made it easier for us the crew as we were able to film on time. All of our crew also turned up in time. The shot numbers we were hoping to get done were numbers 15-24, 27-28 and 36. We were filming our antagonist which was our Business man, using the following shot types:
1) Dolly Shot
2) Panning Shot
For the dolly shot we used a tripod and a wheel dolly. We placed the camera on top of the tripod which was on the wheel dolly. No problems occurred assembling this equipment together. We filmed the Business Man walking on the path. The reason for using this equipment for filming our antagonist was to try and be able to achieve a smooth shot of him walking without any wobbles or slips in the shot. This shot went very well and therefore our objective for this shot was complete. The equipment needed in order to film a panning shot was a tripod and a camera. This shot was used to cut from the dolly shot, so that the camera pans round showing him walking off the pathway up the drive.
This shot cuts straight away from the dolly shot so that there is match on action.
The issues that occurred during today’s shooting were caused by the weather. There were two main problems which were caused by this. Due to the weather on this day being quite windy, it at times caused the tripod to lose stability which means it was wobbling causing the camera to also wobble which ended in a wobbly and unsteady shot. We overcame this issue when one of our crew members had tight grip on the tripod holding it to keep it balanced and preventing it from falling over.
The second issue which occurred was the change in weather as in relation to when the sun was behind the clouds and out of the clouds when filming a later scene. We re-filmed it and overcame this issue by waiting for the weather to change in order for it to be the same as it was before in thje previous shot, so there were no continuity mistakes.
