The first scene to be filmed was the opening scene, in Hannahs bedroom. The room worked really well and because of its length we were able to get a varied amount of shots from one end to the other. One shot that we tried to get was a pull focus, from hannah sat in front of camera, doing her make up, to her house mate walking through the door behind her. I really hope this came out alright because it was a really nicely framed shot, and will be an interesting way to bring a new character in to the scene. Looking back I would have liked to have done more takes to make sure we nailed it, as it might not come out perfect, and could look shoddy if it wasn't executed well enough. As my job was sound for the production stages I was opperatig the boom, although in this scene sound wasnt really too important, as it consisted fully of sign language. However i did still record sound to capture sounds from the characters movement, and doors, footsteps etc.
There were a few shots when getting the boom close ehough to pick up the sound was hard, as the shot above shows. I think i should have stood with the mic further out of teh frame but higher up rather than lower, this way i wouldn't have had to move it as much during the scene and would have picked up more sound than i did from this low angle. Looking forward to the edit im not sure what to do with the sound in the opening scene, as i think it might be good to have it silent to really ehance the fact she is deaf. Although i really want to make sure i record the best sound possible so we are not limited with our decisions.
After finishing the opening scene went on to our next location (Eds house) to film the morning/night before scenes, but after setting up and running the actors through scene directions we were losing light. And a few takes in to the scene we decided to scrap it and film on saturday. Which meant we filmed the night scene first, which was something we originally wanted to avoid because it was the first time 'Hannah and Chris' had met, and because the scene involves a kiss we thought it might be a little awkward for them, and hinder the realism of the situation. But alas they did a great job and i was really surprised by how much they went for it, and improvised the situation. We tried to get a lot of shots for this scene so there were options in the edit, we used the fig rig to get some moving camera shots and some static shots. The lighting wasn't very good in this scene as we were using an over head light. I would have liked to have used some seperate lights, a back light to bring the characters out of the frame and a softer fill light to light their faces, as they looked pretty dark during the shoot. Although the dark lighting should contrast well with the light in the morning scene (which is the scene after in the film) as we will be shooting it in the day.
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