Filming Blog: Night Scenes

Along with our film, we needed to shoot some scenes at night. We only needed one scene complete at night. We scheduled a later filming time and once we started we knew our plan. Our lighting got dimmer, but we decided to start filming before it was pitch black outside. For our lighting in the room, we just used the overlight lighting I have which lit up the whole room dimly. Since we only needed one proper scene our timing wasn't too long. Our scene happens to be the first scene of our movie. We were aware that this has to be an attention grabber and it's what makes the story interesting. Since it's going to be the viewer's first impression we want them to be engaged from the start. We knew that filming the scene would have to be taken seriously, and we took multiple takes to make sure it was what we liked.
Along with us filming the first scene, we relooked our other footage. We wanted to make sure that everything was done up to this point and that we liked it. Our filming matches up to our storyboard because the scenes line up. Meaning everything that happens in our storyboard happens in our film in the same order. Along with us filming we had our storyboards laid out to make sure we kept the same ideas. Having the storyboard made it easier to film since we already knew the angles we wanted and what we need to act out. Filming at night was interesting however because we all had different ideas about how the story would play out. A big factor is how much time we have left due to the fact that we filmed every other scene first. Meaning we knew we didn't have a minute for dialogue and more like 30 seconds in reality. This was one of the better problems to have while filming.