first day of shooting

Tom and I started shooting during fifth period today. We started off our shooting with the shots we needed inside the centre. We did two shots in the hallway on the third floor starting from the history classroom. Tom shot a test shot of the empty hallway and said we could probably use it for one of the transition or jump shots we had planned for our matches on action which signaled a change of location. Then I shot Tom walking down the hall away from the camera, and peeking into classrooms looking for the hider.

We then decided to go to the churchyard, and get close-ups of some of the trees to replace any shots we lost filming in the actual park. It was sunny when we went out and we got some great shots with the camera angle at a steep upward slope. We plan to use these shots to signal transitions between scenes or changes in locations.

Some problems we had during shooting were that our camera picked up sound from one of the classrooms when we were shooting on the third floor, and it also picked up my voice while we were shooting in the churchyard. We also almost ran out of battery in the camera during shooting in the churchyard which meant we had to rush a little to get our final shot before the camera shut itself down.

Tom and I also discussed the costume we plan to have our actor in two roles is going to wear while we were shooting our scenes. We decided on having our actor wear a red hoodie when playing "the seeker" to symbolize or represent relentlessly looking for oneself, and having him wear a grey hoodie when playing "the hider" to represent seemlessly blending in with their surroundings or being completely lost in oneself.