Film Day (29/12/17)

Today we filmed the new narrative at our house with our mum. We didn't know how it would end up as our mum was made to act, as she has never acted before, we were nervous as she's an amateur, who's never acted before. We thought she would over act or not act at all, both outcomes would have been a flaw as it would have looked scripted and possibly not authentic. In general everything went well, we could use the tripod and camera properly and without confusion, my mum acted normal and looked as if it was real. the lighting was possibly an issue as like the performance aspect, it's somewhat grainy, as this occurs due to low-key lighting. We decided that it would make the most sense if we filmed it all in the one evening instead of carrying the filming over 2 nights, this was because once we got into the flow of things, we just wanted to get it all done and completed. Also the availability of group members and my mum was also not 100% for the following evening so we gave ourselves enough time to capture everything in the one evening. At the point in filming, my little brother was home and was playing xbox with his friends. Luckily, he didn't interfere without recording as, even though you cannot hear the diegetic sound in the music video, he would have gotten in the way and made the filming harder. i believe we could have improved the preparation of the mise en scene. The upstairs rooms were cramped and extremely hard to get a variety of camera angles as the room was particularly small. Instead of finding different angles, i came up with the suggestion that we use the cramped area as if it's blocking the camera, in a few shots i have on purposely excludes some parts of the acting for bag straps for example and it's different and unique.
In my opinion, this more linear narrative was the reason our filming went so well. It was easier to film, prepare and rely on actors. The simplistic idea worked well and we were able to pull it off. we also checked all the clips we recorded on site and made a judgement between the 3 of us if we were to re do a shot. This will make it easier to edit and means the chance of refilming on a different day are kept to a minimal as we are running out of time, and fast.