Camera Change

During filming yesterday, Rachel and I decided we were no longer going to be filming on the school camera, but instead on an iPhone 6. Our reasoning for this decision was based on 2 factors; firstly, as the lighting in our set is not brilliant due to there only being one main light and a lamp in there, the camcorder was not picking up the details of set. Also, the lighting was a problem as the footage on the camera showed up as very yellow when filming from certain angles, and broke the continuity- an issue we didn't seem to have the phone. The second reason for changing to an iPhone was the quality of the footage when filming the texting scenes. The text messages are an integral part of the plot and must be legible, but we were finding them difficult to read from the camera. However, they were very clear when shot on the phone, but this did mean we had to change the phone used by the character, as we now needed this to film on.

Before making the final decision we re-filmed the shots we had taken, this time on an iPhone, and compared them- it is from these that we decided on shooting the entirety of the footage on a phone. Luckily we had only filmed two shots before deciding to change, so not too much needed re-filming.