We started wot some of the easier shots like Ryma (Mallory) putting the kettle on, pouring Tea and making her toast. We then made our way through the house basically and filmed scene 5 where she finds out that Peter is actually dead and doesn't exist (spoiler!) We ran through the script and movements with Ryma before we filmed her performing. `It was checked that the shots were going to be in focus and used the location recording kit to record the dialogue as the sound feed from the camera itself isn't the best quality.
We then moved upstairs to film the two versions of Mallory's morning routine. We will re-use some of the shots in both scene 1 and 6 like her waking up and opening the cupboard etc. The only things that really need to be changed are the shots where you see what she is wearing, the Maroon or the Blue dress and when she is styling her hair. We practice the moments Ryma was going to do, directing her on how we wanted her to look throughout the sequence and then began to film it and repeated several times from different angles. This allowed us to see what angles would look best. We all think that the footage looked really good quality and well framed and focused so fingers crossed it's good enough to edit.
Evaluation:
Overall the session went great and we got everything we needed to film done to what we believed was a high good quality standard with accurate framing of the shots with only a few continuity errors. Ryma filled her role really we and brought out the characters emotions and attitudes to life perfectly. The range of shots was limiting within the room as it wasn't designed to fit 4 crew members an actress and a lot of camera equipment but we made good use of the space we had with varied angles and shot types.
When we checked the footage closely we did have a few continuity errors such as the camera crews image appearing in the mirrored wardrobes when Ryma opened them so something would need to be corrected about this. There were a few artificial lighting issues but this was soon solved by turning all lights on in the room and if necessary we could correct the light within editing.
Hopefully the rest of the filming days go as smoothly as it one did and the footage is all good and ready for editing. But we really need to get cracking with the rest of our planned filming days. GO GO GO!
