The Filming Fiasco

     After looking at the footage from both our days of filming, I have found a major problem.  It seems as if everything we have filmed has been corrupted and is unusable.  This is very upsetting, especially since we have found out so late in the process. What we will have to do is re film this weekend the best we can.

     I asked my television production friends what could have happened in case I make the same mistake again.  After a very educational conversation, we came to a specific reason to why this happened to my footage.  The very professional camera that I used to film captured in 60 frames per second, a very large amount of frames.  The SD card I used for the project was a 4 speed so it was not fast enough to record the footage correctly.  For the next time I film, I will have to buy a 10 speed SD card or film in 30 fps.  

     Although this is a major issue, it is very fixable.  The only other issues I can foresee is getting people to come and help last minute and on a Sunday.  I am trying to keep a positive outlook in that I can redo some shots or try to act a little better.  Although it is hard when I think of how little time I have left, I will just have to wait and plan the best I can.

 

     

Day Two Troubles

     For the second day of filming, Me, Vicente, and our friend that was acting as the cameraman went to Markham Park.  As I have said before, this part of the filming process was planned to be extra in case the part we had planned was too short.  Looking back at the footage from the other day of filming, its starting to seem like we'll need it.  

     The first part of the process was choosing an exact location to film in.  Although we could have done this a little earlier, it wasn't hard to choose a location once we got there.  There was one forest that stretched a very large difference, and despite a recent hurricane knocking over a few of the trees, we found a location perfect to film on.

     The biggest problem that we ran into was my acting ability.  I have no idea why, but on the day we were supposed to film, I had a large amount of trouble portraying the emotions that I was supposed to.  I kept trying for about 30 minutes but I couldn't seem to get it.  Eventually we all agreed that it would benefit us all to just keep it simple since it wasn't working out.  We did one shot where it didn't show my face to end it, and it ended up looking pretty goods so we ended filming.  As a bonus, both the sets were easy to get to, so if we need to re shoot anything after we see a problem in editing, we can.