Production day 2

The weather again

The 2nd day was a very eventful day and very productive. As we feared the weather was cloudy, the complete opposite to the first day. It even rained, which caused pause on filming, but in the end we decided to go back out when the rain calmed down. We moved forward with our shots, and with the thought of that if the shots didn't match in the rough edit, it would be something we fix with pick ups.

 

 
Efficiency

For today, we had to move forward as we were very aware that we were running against the clock. We realized that shots we planned specifically for the chessboard weren’t efficient enough and too clunky to set up for the time we had. We decided that to be able to complete everything, we did a bunch of shots from a selection of camera positions which fulfilled multiple needs. 

 

 

The time we saved from setting up specific individual shots was used to set up less varied but better-looking shots. Like the extreme close-up shots of the chess pieces with a shallow focus which were just tiny movements of the camera closer to the chess pieces, but it still had the same set up. These shots were used for chess moves we wanted to put emphasis on like this one.

 

 

We got the idea of using a sequence of arial shots to show the less dramatic chess moves so it could take less time in the movie. We were having a problem figuring out how to set the camera without the tripod being in the way. Until our teacher showed a unique way to set up the tripod for it. We would have never thought about putting the tripod on an angle. This kind of made us think of other possibilities. 

We were way more productive this day and more confident about what we were doing. We took more shots overall, and we were happy with them. We weren’t able to finish all the shots, even with us trying to go as fast as we could. The most simplest shot took longer. I really underestimated the time they would, something I will keep in mind for next production.