Day 1 of Filming

After a long and nerve-wracking day of filming, my first day of filming went ok. Initially I found it went quite well, mainly because I had my checklist so that I wouldn't hopefully forget anything. Nevertheless, I found a couple of issues which may effect my trailer:

Brightness

Firstly, the main problem I found was light. The day I filmed on was considerably bright - it was quite cloudy meaning that the sun would often hide behind clouds making the shot seem dark, of course until the clouds moved and the sun would beam an excessive amount of light. Although this didn't majorly effect my filming, I noticed after looking back at some of my shots that the light in the shot would vary slightly.

Luckily enough I can improve the brightness by using the editing software I am using to create my trailer on (Final Cut Pro), meaning that once amended, the brightness in my trailer will be consistent.

General Camera Use

Because I haven't had much experience with cameras before, I knew that the actual shooting for my trailer would be quite difficult in terms of general camera handling. This is evident in some of scenes which creates an amateurish portrayal. For example, i have a scene where I was filming multi-storey flat buildings which you can notice branches evident in the shot, as I was filming over a fence. Nevertheless, this didn't create a big problem for my trailer as most of my trailer was filmed hand-held to help intensify the setting.

To help improve this, I could do more retakes whilst filming and be more calm with the camera, as I began to rush things a bit due to running out of time and the potential of the camera to run out of battery . I could also film my scene at different angles meaning I have more footage of the same scene, thus reducing the chance of any mistakes whilst filming.

Consistency

Additionally, I also noticed that my trailer doesn't show as much consistency which I planned, thus reducing the professionalism of my trailer. For example, Joe in one shot has his hood up and in another he isn't wearing his jumper. Although this is subtle and not exactly important, it may be evident for some of the audience. 

Conclusion

In my opinion  I was dreading my first day of filming, mainly because of the chance of my filming quality not coming out as I expected, or if I somehow still managed to miss any scenes out. However it went exactly to plan (minus the couple of problems stated above) - all which I needed to do now was add voice overs (which you can see in my 'audio checklist' post) and a couple of extra scenes which I thought of after filming. All in all, the majority of my filming is complete!