Issues On Shoot (Opening Sequence)

When shooting my opening sequence I came across a number of problems. The first kind of problem I had was when I was watching the footage over I realised that there was a lot of background noise, but not just from the people at the market, but from the friends I went there with. As I filmed a lot of the things I saw in the market the friends I was with were with me and their conversations could be heard in the background which meant that i had to cancel the sound out in those shots and take the sound from other clips to replace them if I needed sound. Another time this came up was when friends called for me to come when i was filming, so I had to fix this in the same way. Another problem was the characters messing around which took time away from doing serious filming work and was very distracting when I was trying to get a certain part done. This could of been because they got board quickly when i had to keep retaking things. Finally, I had the problem of obstacles I had on set. Like a dog lying down the path from the market to the van where the kidnapping would take place.

Another set of problems were the people in the market. They probably weren't use to someone filming them so a number of times I had people waving at the camera or looking directly at it which gave away the point that the camera wasn't meant to be there in the scene and is just recalling the events. There was even a time when a person came right up to the camera as I was filming a conversation of Lucy and a haggler which meant I missed the whole exchange.

There was also the problems of the actors. Like in the parents conversation the first take I took was the mother coming in and asking if he had seen the husband, she ran on to the set and started talking but no sound came out of her mouth as she thought she was lip sinking to a voice I had prerecorded. This distracted the other actor and showed that I hadn't properly told her what she was doing. We then had to redo the scene and make sure she understood what she was saying. Another problem I had when shooting this scene was when I was doing close ups of the characters speaking to get a different angle I found it amusing and would laugh or move the camera too fast.

The last problem I had was when filming the kidnap scene. This provided much amusement to us and the others around who weren't part of the 'crew'. It took about four shots to get the scene as either the actors, or me, would start to laugh. As everyone who was in my opening sequence knew each other when filming it was very funny especially when they would snatch Lucy. The first time we filmed the scene Lucy didn't know there was going to be a second guy so laughed and stumbled which made everyone laugh. On another take the dog that was creating an obstacle before came onto set and stood in the middle for a while, no one wanted to touch it as it was a stray. It took a few times but eventually we got the scene.

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