Filming Day One

Filming Day One by Yolanda Wallbanks

I got a lot of good footage on this day and feel that I was very good at thinking on the spot to combat different problems and also to come up with different ideas of what to film from what we wanted originally. 

EXAMPLES OF THE FOOTAGE:

When filming the cloud watching from the window I decided that is was not enough to just film from the inside so I went outside and filmed them from there as well as from the inside which I though was very pretty because I was able to get the sweet thatch of the cottage in the videos to add to the homie vibe to the clips. I also had a problem with the lighting from the inside as I did not have any lights with me and the footage was either too dark or too light, which made the then change the location to another window in the house which was slightly bigger and had more light in the room, I still had some problems however I decided that these could be easily fixed in post-production and moved on. 

When filming the children playing and reading I made sure to take the footage from many different angels in order for us to have as much choice as possible when editing the footage. This was very easy and in some places I even moved around to create some very pretty smooth flowing shots. I also did this with the clips of the children drawing, however after watching back some of the moving clips I felt that it too away from the actual drawing and did not move much in the rest of the clips to keep full focus on the drawings. 

When we went outside the weather was much better, however it was very damp on the ground so to make sure they children did not get wet I placed plastic bags in the floor and they laid on top, then I tucked it underneath. This made the filming of this scene a lot nicer for everyone and made sure that the children felt comfortable and could act to their best ability. After setting up the children paying on the ground I was able to get lots of footage of just them and of them looking up to the sky. Even though the weather was rubbish it did not effect the quality of the footage and I am very happy about that. 

Also outside I was able to capture some really sweet footage of the children playing the the garden something that I associate greatly with childhood. The footage captures the innocence of what it is like to be a child and imagining a whole world to play in. To do this I just asked the kids to play whatever they wanted and then I filmed them when I though it was sweet and something that we could use in our video. Generally everything they did was great. I did at some points directed them with things to do such as chase each other around the tree or have Isabel run with Finlay to the bottom of the garden (which was personally my favourite shot from the garden).

Overall I am very happy with this filming day, there were no problems that I could not quickly fix and I got all the footage we needed and more (just in case). We only went over the schedule by a very small amount of time and everyone enjoyed the day a lot.