Filming Report

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out” 

                                        ― Martin Scorsese

It is so strange to think that weeks of preparation all came together only to obtain two hours of footage. I always knew a full length movie must take an awful lot of time to film and edit but I never though about how much meticulous planning goes into them beforehand. There is so much to consider: the right location, the right places to shoot within that location, what costumes represent the characters best, what shots convey the story best... I only needed to make two minutes of what would normally be a 90 minute piece and I now have so much appreciation and respect for film and filmmakers. It is funny because most people only seem to pay attention to the actor names but you can have the most talented actors in the world and still create a bad movie if you don't have the right behind-the-scenes team putting every aspect of the film together.

I think filming went quite well today, I'm quite pleased with the footage. My only concern is that I was planning to use the natural ambience of the forrest as my sound. But even when I sat down to record the sounds in quiet it was disturbed by planes flying above or the sound just didn't come out right. Thankfully, our teacher showed us how to mix sounds in the Apple application Garageband earlier in the year and there are royalty-free sound effect databases like Audioblocks that will allow me to create the sound track I want from scratch.

Here are a couple of behind-the-scenes shots I took today during filming: