PROGRESS :)

Just an update on myself and Cilia's filming and editing for advert two.

Shoot's 2 and 3:

Since mine and Cilia's uneffective yet useful shoot 1, we have been out a couple more times and found ourselves in a much better position to film. From learning that in our original footage there was way too little POV shots, we made it our biggest aim to shoot them in the next few dates of our shooting schedule, which we have done.

I feel shoot's 2 and 3 were effective and we have gained a great amount of useful shots. However, while filming there were a number of limitations, and once uploading the footage onto the mac's these problems became apparent. For example, the weather! during shoot 2 it was extremely sunny which made it hard to film seeing as the sun was in the actors eyes which made them squint, and during shoot 3 the weather was very dull. The contrast in weather conditions became more apparent while uploading the footage as some shots were really bright and others were dark. This was really annoying because as the advert is starting to come together, the difference in light is noticeable which is limiting our shots. We tried to overcome this problem by using an umbrella, yet the end result was even worse as we could see the shadows in the footage! The weather was also really windy (aswell as being overly sunny!) which meant the non- diegetic sound we wanted in the shots were ruined, and made the camera/ tripod become unsteady. In addition to this, these problems made our aim for creating verisimilitude alot more difficult. This is the reason for us having extra long shots as we thought it would be better for us to cut them, rather than having an unsteady short clip which is completely useless.
In order to overcome these problems, we feel by having the soundtrack (song) over the advert, the sound will be more discrete. Also, in the future if I feel that the weather conditions will cause a vast difference in the advert, we will film parts of another advert. From these problems I have learnt that there is always another way you can spend your time rather than wasteing it, like going into the macroom to edit or getting a headstart in filming our other two adverts! However, even though we had faced a couple of problems I feel confident that ad 2 is where it needs to be filming wise, even though a number of re- shoots are necessary. Me and Cilia have spent the past few weeks in the macroom and first location (common) of our advert and this will be the case for ongoing weeks.