Filming Day 2

Yesterday was my second day of filming. I couldn't do a blog yesterday because I was busy doing some other work and going outside with friends as it was a Friday night. Anyways, I'll tell you about it now. Yesterday, was my second and last day of filming. I recorded all of the shots that needed to. I got all of the shots ranging from the very beginning of my film with the pan of the medals to the main character leaving the house. I also got the shot of the main character in the "hospital." Let me tell you about how I did this. 

First of all, I needed to get the tripod to make these shots stable. Yesterday during school, I went to my teacher's classroom to ask her for a tripod. She kindly gave me a tripod and sent me on my way. After school, I immediately set up the tripod to get started with filming. 

Afterwards, I got ready to film. I wanted to film the shots of the medals first. I put my phone on the tripod and set up the camera right in front of my medals. 

All of the medals shown in the image above were actually all medals that I've been awarded after my races. After I got these shots, I went to get some more shots of my dad's medals since there were a lot more of those. These shots were easy to take because they didn't need any help to take, since only the cameraman (AKA me) is needed to take these shots. With the next shots, I only had help by my brother for two out of probably 20 shots. This made the process a lot harder since I couldn't just have someone start the button on the camera for me. I had to press the button, get into the shot, do the action, get out of the shot, and then stop the camera. This caused the process to take much longer than I thought it would. However, it was okay since I was able to finish in around 90 minutes. 

Finally, I had to take the shot of me in the hospital. For this shot, I wanted my face to be dirty and covered in dried up blood. However, I didn't actually want to cut myself to get some blood. Ew, of course not. What I ended up doing was getting some dirt from my backyard, make it wet with some water, and smear it on my face. I waited for this to dry and this made my face look really dirty, since I had just "crashed" in the prior scene. Then, I took some ketchup and also smeared that onto my face giving the dirt a more crimson color. This made it look like I had got scratched up and all dirty. Here's how it looked. 

After this shot, I was officially done with filming. Wait a minute. It feels like I forgot something. Yes. The green screen shot. Well, no, I actually didn't forget. I have decided that the green screen shot actually wouldn't be possible with my set up since I would have to have something lift up the bike in order for the wheels to be spinning. If I just was on my bike in front of the green screen, then the wheels wouldn't be spinning and I wouldn't be able to get a good shot. This would be a continuity error. Therefore, I decided to scrap the shot and just use the POV shot, since it looked pretty good. In order to have the wheels spinning I would have to have something lift up the bike, but that would defeat the purpose of the green screen. I tried to look up how else to do this by editing, and it would be too complex to edit out the spokes of the bike, since I would have to edit every frame. 

At least I have finished with the filming. Tomorrow, I will try to do most of the editing since during spring break, I will be going on a cruise and won't be able to work on the assignment. Well, until next time. See ya!