After Filming First Scene Report

After filming for the first time I found there were some difficulties but I was happy with what was produced by the end. Firstly the person who was meant to play the main character throughout my film was ill and could not come to shoot the film. Considering we already had the equipment to film that day and the weather was as we wanted there was no point in giving up on the day. We found another similar looking actor but it was still an inconvenience at the time and for a moment everything fell apart. However the footage we got of the main character was good and we stuck to the shot list religiously. Another issue I found we had was the lighting. In the scene the girl is walking down a road and gradually the fairly short road she is walking down seems to be getting darker. This is because we had to shoot each shot a few times which meant we had a small margin of time to catch the twilight we were hoping to see on camera. I was the camera man and Aimee was director. My sister played the actor who came in at the last minute. From this experience I have learnt that time goes quickly when filming thus it is important to shoot quickly or over a series of days so you can maintain the light you want for a scene of gradually change the light to get darker so there is not an issue with things getting too dark too quickly. Another issue to look out for is stressing the importance of the filming to you're friends (actors) so they have a serious view on what you are doing and would be prepared to take it easy the night before to do their best on the day. Although it was not our actors fault she became ill it was still an issue for us and if we had not found a sub actor it would have been an issue we might not have been able to fix on the day, therefore pushing back our schedule.