Today, I finished filming my final 2 scenes. We started at 11 by setting up the green screen and getting the car into position. We decided that since the green screen was going to be the most difficult and also the most important to get first since we were depending on the sun for lighting the green screen. We had the green set up and the car in position with Oliver ready to begin recording. However, we weren't able to begin recording until 3pm, nearly 4 hours later because Jemma ended up being late for shooting because she was on another shoot for one of my classmates.
When Jemma finally turned up we didn't waste anytime. We went straight into filming with the green screen. We set up the shot so that we'd only see the green screen behind the actors and nothing else. This was so in the edit we wouldn't need to cut or crop the shot in anyway. Below is how we set up the shot.
This was the style I wanted so that I could make it more realistic that they were in a moving car. When filming, I repeatedly pushed the car gently so that we got that slight movement to help make this more realistic. As well as this I had a member of my crew move a light up and down on Oliver's face to give the impression of moving past trees or lap posts, since you always get slight movements of passing lights when driving. We worked through all of this which took about an hour and when it came to changing sides for Lily's dialogue, we had to move the car around since that was easier than trying to move and re-set the green screen.
With the green screen footage, we actually had to use a different car from what we'd used for scene 2. Below are the difference in the cars used. The silver car in the second photo was the first that we used as it belonged to one of the crew, George Lock. However, when it came to filming the green screen footage, George wasn't able to make it to the afternoon shoot, He was only available for the morning but Jemma was not. So we decided to use a different car but we got the opening shot which was the steadicam shot of the car and the open bonnet and then of Lily's first line. After this we used another
students car and set up the shot so that you could not actually see that the car was different on the outside. We found this worked well and you can't actually tell that the cars are different.
After we finished scene 3, we went on to film scene 1 which was filmed just by the side of the car park which we filmed the green screen footage. This went much more smoothly although we did find a slight issue with filming this. We'd already filmed the opening shot of scene 1, but that was early in the morning when we had George's car and Jemma for only about 20 minutes. But, since then the lighting had changed as can be seen in the photo below, continuity would be an issue with this but since there was nothing we could do to change this, we had to continue to film and hope that I could fix it in post-production. We got on with filming and it worked well and went along very well. Once we'd finished filming we packed up and took back the equipment.
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