Today 04/12/2014 I started my main task of filming. Today I have learnt the important details, from lighting and camera positions to the emotion in the actresses face. In discussion with our media technician and the actress I explained the angle that I was looking for to show that it was a flashback to when the actress got bullied as a young girl. I also explained how I wanted the opening credits to look, with the slow zoom in along with the crescendo of the music. This was helped by the very precise lighting and camera position, to get the zoom perfectly inline with her face.
As you can see from above, this was the positioning that the camera and tungsten light. Unfortunately as my actress was wearing glasses the tungsten light was reflecting in them, however this is not necessarily a set back but a chance to make the footage even better. As you can see below where the light reflects this therefore means that I cannot use this footage as the audience's eye will automatically be drawn to her glasses.
Even though you could argue that it is her natural reflection if you look closely you can actually see the light bulb and it throws every other aspect away. I am now in the process of looking for a solution to the problem at hand. However, my actress (Jennie) understood the level of emotion that I was looking for in this video, I had to explain my idea about the fact that she was playing an young adult who had been bullied as a child and that I would be making flashback scenes to when she was that little child.
As you can see again the tungsten light is reflecting in her glasses, although the emotion that you can see in her face and in her body language is outstanding and is just the type of thing that I am looking for in my video. Showing that even though we get older it does not change the pain that we have had as children.
This first day of filming has helped me see the light into film making and it has helped me see flaws in using some aspects of technology nowadays.
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