Filming Blog: Filming the Last Half of My Storyboard & Slight Changes

On December 3rd is my last filming day and it took about four hours worth of trial and error for many takes in each scene.

The first scene that was filmed was me walking towards the kitchen to my frying pan, this was footage for the bacon and eggs scene, which occurs before that scene. Before filming, I did a demo of how I wanted the footage to go with my brother. I set up my tripod, and had my brother walk towards the frying pan and I panned the camera, following my brother. I had my brother see the footage and had him replicate it. I walked towards the stove and my brother pans the camera, following me. This took about 4 takes to perfect.

I then had my brother film a long shot of me walking out the front door of out house. In this scene, I was walking out the house and walked to my mailbox, this was for the love letter scene. Like before, I first filmed my brother coming out of the house, and I was positioned far away from my house outside when filming this, in order to achieve the long shot. In this scene, the camera was completely still. I had my brother observe the footage so he could replicate it. I then went inside my house, while my brother was outside with the camera. He counted 3,2,1, and I stepped out the door walking toward the mailbox. This took about 6 takes for the footage to be focused and non shaky. We found that the footage was completely blurry, so I suggested my brother to put the camera in autofocus, which worked well. 

My brother and I walked to the mailbox to film me opening the mailbox. Before filming, I took some pink constriction paper and made it to an origami letter, which I looked up a tutorial on YouTube. This was my love letter to retrieve. I then just used a purple marker put a heart on the letter. I took a picture of the mailbox first, to establish how I want the composition to look so my brother could film in that exact composition. I showed my brother the photograph of the mailbox, once he started to understand the composition, we started filming. When filming I walked towards my mailbox, opened it, and retrieved the love letter. This took just 3 takes, as it was simple to film. Then, I had my brother film an over-the-shoulder-shot of me holding the love letter, which took 2 seconds. I had my brother film a close up shot of me smiling, looking at the letter. For the 'angry shot' I had my brother film a over-the-shoulder shot again, but me ripping the letter, taking one take. After that, I had another close up of me lifting the ripped out piece of paper, and dropping it to the ground. This concluded the filming for the love letter scene. 

There's slight changes to my storyboard, I had to replace the biking scene with a drawing scene, as it was a cloudy day, so the lighting was bad. In this scene, I'm drawing calmly, then it transitions to another scene where I rip a page out of my sketchbook and throw it towards the camera. Before filming anything, I cleared my desk of my belongings, and put my sketchbook on the middle of my desk.  Then, I attached my camera to my tripod and set it to a table, behind my desk. I had brother film me sitting at my desk, showing a mid-shot of my back. The scene consisted of me just at my desk, with my back towards the camera, which only last 3 seconds. I then filmed a close-up of my sketchbook and my drawing on it. The drawing on my sketchbook was an elaborate sketch of a face, and I was just shading the drawing in this close-up. I had my brother film a close-up of my face, mainly to show how calm I am in this scene. For the contradicting scene, I first filmed a close-up of my sketchbook again; instead, I was sketching a cartoon face that was crying. My brother filmed a close-up of my face again, in this scene, I ripped the paper out of my sketchbook and threw it towards the camera.

Finally, I filmed the scene with me receiving a heart message from a lover, and sending one back. And another contradicting scene, with me receiving the message, but then throwing my phone out of spite. My brother and I picked a spot for the phone scene, which was a blank white wall in my parent's room. This time, I told him to just film me walking and when I look down, he'll make the camera tilt towards my pocket, where I retrieve my phone and look at the screen. I had him film a close-up shot of my phone of me sending a heart emoji back to a lover. Then, we filmed a scene of me throwing the phone. Before filming this scene, I took out my phone from the case. I cut black construction paper and put it inside the case to look like there's a phone inside. My brother filmed me throwing my phone, and this took about 4 takes. This concludes the filming day.