First Day of Filming Evaluation

We started filming at around 12pm. Our first location was Finsbury park and we filmed some shots of the outside area for our title sequence. We took shots of things like the floor, dirty and covered in leaves, the sun light coming through the trees and the trees itself. Some of these were worm's eye view shots and some were long and wide shots. We also filmed a man on a bicycle and a wide shot of a dog running down a pathway. One of the problems we encountered was that one of our group members was slightly late, so carrying the equipment proved to be more of a challenge. However, they only arrived an hour late so we weren't left with only the three of us for too long.

The next location we travelled to was Crouch End to get shots of churches. Since Omar knew the area quite well, he directed us to a few churches in his area which would be suitable for our title sequence. When filming the footage, we came to a realisation that some of it looked very obviously like it was filmed in London. Considering the location of our title sequence is somewhere within the Bible Belt area of the United States, we then made sure to exclude things that gave away the location too much. We made sure that the churches we filmed didn't look too Victorian on the outside since we did some research on churches in that area and came to a conclusion that they looked more modern. 

The first church we filmed, we only got footage of the outside of the structure as we thought it looked modern. We got close ups of the cross on the front as well as wide and long shots of the roof and steps. When filming, we had to make sure we didn't get any of the people in the shots and it proved to be harder than it seemed since it was a residential area and many people were walking by. On the side of the church, we discovered some pretty cool paintings in the parking lot so we decided to film them too since they looked peculiar and would fit our creepy atmosphere. However, it was starting to get dark and we had to take out our dedo light. We filmed wide shots of the wall with the dedo light moving across it and thought it looked very effective. 

The second church we filmed the outside, in the small gazebo section in front of the entrance. We used the dedo light to shine through the stained glass windows outside which looked quite creepy and effective. We also filmed close ups of the marble statues above the entrance together with the latin writing as it added to the creepy effect. We then decided to ask the church man if we can film on the inside of the church. Multiple of the shots we took were just of the statues inside, close ups and panning shots of the shrines and the pictures of the walls. 

Overall, I think we got a lot of good shots that we have now started to edit in Premier Pro CC. The day was productive, and we didn't face too many problems and they didn't impact our productivity very much. Here is a short emaze of our group members filming: