Filming: Day One

As we planned to film on the first day we stumbled upon our first problem, one we as a group have learnt from. As we went towards the room in which we were going to film we found that another group had already booked it. Unfortunately this meant we would be unable to get any filming done that day and would have to settle for filming the next day. This was because in order to film we would need the green screen and didn’t want to use the portable one as it was too small and we wanted to keep continuity in our filming.  So after learning from our mistakes, we booked both the room and the cameras for the following days, in order to ensure that we would have all the time and equipment to film in future and avoid a scenario like this one again.

So instead of filming we took the opportunity to look for a royalty free soundtrack that we could use to complement our opening sequence. As we had not filmed anything nor finished filming, we could only grasp a rough idea of what we wanted the soundtrack to be like and where editing the sound needed to be made. As a group we felt that the best style of music for the opening would be fast paced jazz. This was based on the research we had done on other crime fiction film openings and the music’s relation to our opening. We used the website ‘incompetch.com’ because we felt it had the best range of music and was an easy website to both search and download music from.  After looking for a while we came upon three possible choices for our soundtrack. After finding our three choices we reached the end of the lesson and although the day had not gone as planned we had found that we made a lot of progress in the making of our film opening.