Production- Filming day 1

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today I will be telling you guys how filming went!

Filming officially began, and it was thrilling to see our storyboard come to life! Before the mystery begins, we filmed Luna at school for our opening scenes, showing her typical, everyday routine. We took pictures of Luna packing up all of her supplies, sitting in class, and the bell ringing. Because it adds realism to the scene and specifies the timing of her leave, we took care to film the bell in particular. Additionally, we saw glimpses of her leaving class, helping set up the next section of the narrative. We were able to concentrate on minor aspects, such as camera angles and smooth transitions, by filming these moments. We used a lot of wide shots and close-up shots for these scenes. The project felt more real when we watched everything come together on camera, and we are even more excited to continue filming the remaining scenes!

Planning our production day

In order to fully execute the scene as we start the first day of production, we needed to think back on our first storyboard. We decided it would be the ideal day to film our first scene because my group and I all have the same class's fourth period. I offered to use my Sony Alpha A3000 camera for filming, and since the opening scene won't have any speaking, microphones weren't required today. Before filming, we set aside thirty minutes in class to thoroughly set up the camera angles and movements we wanted in each location.

Lighting choices

Because we wanted the time to be constant, we wanted to record this entire scene in order rather than skipping across footage. In order for the film to flow and have a natural opening, we want to make sure that every scene is filmed in the same order throughout the following few days of shooting. We decided it was a good idea to start in the middle of the day so we could take use of the sun's natural brilliant lighting because we had a lot of different footage to film in a short amount of time. We have more time to shoot more scenes because we began filming at noon.

Reflection

Our day of filming went well overall. Near the end of the day, the camera died. This week, we intend to remain after school to complete the three photographs we had intended to take. Our initial timeline is going to be affected by this, but in order to make a good movie, we must complete these final few clips. After this, we want to use editing tools to make changes to the movie. In order to correctly organize the scenes and avoid being in a rush to finish them, we also intend to edit as we are filming.

Here is a picture of a close-up shot we filmed of Luna.