Some Hurdles

     Now, that me, Brennan, and Vanessa got done with all of our production we are now transitioning into our editing phase. With that being known, I want to focus on some of the obstacles that we faced when filming for Pushover. 

    First of, right when we arrived at our desired spot there was a lot of people, obviously since it's a public park at1-2 PM, and I'll admit that this was definitely a miscalculation on our end since we didn't really take that into account. Luckily for us we noticed that on the other side of the park there were two tables under a little tent, almost exactly like where we originally planned to film. However, there was a lady there and when asking her if she could move to the other tables, she said no because she was there a while already and didn't want to move, understandably, but I kid you not even 2 minutes later the lady leaves. Which was good for us, but had me a little confused not going to lie. 

Original Spot

New Spot

   

    That was our first problem, now for a second problem we realized that we we're somewhat unprepared. Like for instance, when filming some of the shots especially the one's containing dialogue I did not identify different shots when making the storyboard and instead just did one, and we felt that this would make the scene boring. So, it lead us to have some artistic freedom for that part in specific, but at times we had no guideline to tell us what shots we should shoot. This was really annoying since it delayed our filming, which was not ideal especially due to the heat. Although, after sometime we were able to adjust and get the shots we wanted.

Storyboard

    Our last major obstacle was when filming the tracking shot in the house. During the filming of this scene we had to retake it about 20 times. Each time we filmed, we found a new issue or way to improve the shot itself. When entering the house we wondered how Asher (Brennan) could walk inside and close the door without me (the cameraman) and Vanessa (who was holding up the mic) being in the way. So here we adjusted by making it seem like Asher forgot to close the door and here we would sneak in behind. Then after this we realized that there was a mirror that could showed me filming; so once again we had to change things up a little bit to make sure that part looked good. Then another issue we faced during this was the lighting. When Asher would walk to his room the scene was extremely dark due to the closed curtains, so we decided it'd be better and more natural for Asher to turn on the lights as he enters his home. That's pretty much the major issues and hurdles that we faced during our production.

    A lot of it was fun, but it definitely was tedious at times when we we were lost artistically and technically. For now, I'm just hoping that when editing there's not as many problems concerning the footage.