Filming.

Today my group, our chosen actors and I decided to film our opening sequence. We used a Sony Camera with a tape and a tripod. We did not need any extra lighting as it was quite a bright day and we wanted natural light.
We set off at around 10am with one of our actors, Annie. We walked to one of the chosen locations which was the clifftop. We started with the establishing shot of the clifftop view which would set the scene in our opening sequence. We had to re-film this a few times over just so we got it right.
I attempted one of the establishing shots and shot the shots of Annie picking up the phone; the close up of her talking on the phone; the shot of her running away which i had to film a few times over and also the close up of the phone for the end of our opening sequence. Each of us within the group took turns to film, direct and make sure that everything else is okay when filming the shots.
When filming, we noticed that the shoe on the tripod was a bit stiff when panning the camera from left or right, or up or down. We overcame this by changing the tripod; in order to do this, a trip back to the college was required. This was convienient as we finished filming our first set of shots at around 12 so then we needed to get Jonathan from college so we could film the next set.

After gathering a different tripod and the extra props and our actor, Jonathan Tang, we went back to the location of the clifftop to continue filming the rest of Annie's scenes. But just before this, Patricia and I took a detour and went to the bottom of the cliff and told Henna, Jonathan and Annie to go to the top and that we would meet them there. We took the camera with us and told Annie to stand at the top so we could zoom in on her from the bottom of the cliff. We thought this would be effective as then it would give a feel of the height of the cliff and how much serious danger our character could be in. Patricia and I took turns filming this many times to get it right.
When we joined them back at the top of the cliff, Henna filmed Annie taking the photo out of her pocket and then I filmed Annie looking at the photo at a high angle, looking over her shoulder. As Jonathan was also with us we started filming his shots which took place in our second location choice of the graveyard, which was around 5 minutes away from the cliff edge. Henna filmed the long shot of Jonathan walking through the graveyard and close up of him dialing the number on the phone. I filmed the long shot of Jonathan on the phone and the close up of him talking on the phone which took several attempts because we needed a clear sound. This was the end of filming our opening sequence and we had finished at around 3pm.

One of the main problems we encountered was the lighting, as the weather was cold and the sun was out, it was casting unnecessary shadows and also making the scenery look too bright and in some shots was causing the actor and us to not be able to see properly due to the sunlight. The white balance on the camera didn't help with the brightness as when reset it did not take it away.