This weekend we finished the shooting of our short film, Man Without A Movie Camera. It went a lot better than expected, despite the worst imaginable weather conditions! The first day of shooting started off quite dry, despite reports that there was going to be heavy storms throughout the day. Due to the surprisingly nice weather we decided to start with our outdoor shots to ge them out of the way before it turned, which it did on setting up our shot and would continue to do every time we wanted to film outside. Our second day of shooting, however was perfect filming conditions with a clear blue sky and great lighting, unfortunately this wasn't great for continuity with regard to the previous day's weather, but gave us a chance to do some pick-ups at the end of the day for some of the stormier shots of the previous day's shoot.
In the end our planning paid off, with time left at the end of each day's schedule meaning that we didn't run out of time on either day and had time to do multiple takes of every shot, to give us some leeway if anything is to be wrong with the footage when it comes to editing it. Some looseness in the structure led to us achieving some of our most creative feats of the film, such as a few of our best shots and a strengthening of the script being forced through an extras absence on the second day. One of our shots, which we came up with on location ended up being by far our best shot of the shoot, which was a tracking shot filmed from the boot of one of the extra's cars, as you can see in the photo below with Myles holding the camera while Luke drives.
Next step is the editing, which will be started after another short film for an online competition is made this week, which should be completed for viewing in my next post, so keep your eyes peeled!
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