2 Corinthians 6:2

FILMING!

I am so excited to say today is the first filming day for my film opening. With help from my friend Beatriz whose taking AICE Media A Level, we're gonna record Luz's shot outside of the house, where she dances and finds Joshua across the street. I made a group chat with everyone involved in the film opening, but 2 of them are off to field trips right now, which means I will have to do the rest of filming next week. The good thing is next week I have more time after school to work on it, and so do the people helping me including the actors and production team. 

For today's filming, we're going to film on my friend Mafe's porch (I'll include a picture when I post about today). Beatriz is gonna bring a small microphone to record a small dialogue from Luz and we will use our phones to record. I have a phone camera stand but it'll be mostly tracking Luz as she walks and dances, so I borrowed Mrs. Stoklosa's stabilizer to help with that. 

I chose to film at 6pm because it is close to the sunset with daylight savings. It's not too dark but also not too bright. It also works for everyone due to school hours considering the actress for Luz lives considerably far away. 

I had some issues and questions in terms of sound with this scene. Luz will be dancing along to music, which means she has to listen to the music while filming, but I also need the music somewhere in the background to sync the scene with the song. The problem is I don't want the mic attached to Luz to extract that music and be heard within the dialogue audio. I asked Mrs. Stoklosa about it and she advised me to film the dialogue part first and then record the choreography, they do transition from a mid shot to a close-up which works to film them separately. 

After filming this shot, I want to start researching LUTs for the shot. I do want a softer, kind of pastel feeling to the opening and film overall, so I want to look for LUTs and filters with these characteristics. I am gonna use freshluts.com to look for possible LUTs and get a feeling for the film. Some possible options for the LUT include The Bubble is Pink and YELLOW&PURPLE. But I do want to reflect on these after I film to see if they fit with the scene. Magenta Day 01 also looks good

I will update you on today's success in my next blog post!