Filming update

So with the creative part of the film completed, everything was in place for us to begin filming, filming took place over 3/4 weeks, with us doing around 7/8 shoots in total including re shoots.  Although most of the work on set was a group effort, my main role was to take charge of the sound,  I had 3 pieces of equipment at my disposal:

• The default mic on the camera

• A wireless mic and receiver

• The boom mic

each of these pieces of equipment have different  pros and cons, the mic on the camera is easy to use and provides audio from the point of view of the camera, the wireless mic is very good for picking up dialogue or for use in tight sets where the boom is hard to operate, and the boom mic provides the best audio quality overall, but can be hard to operate and use.

For most of the shoots I chose to predominantly use the camera mic for ambient noise and actions, and the wireless mic for the dialogue during the kitchen scenes, the boom was used in one of the shoots, but we had difficulty getting it to function properly so it was not utilised as much as I would have liked to.

I looked into action comedy to assist with directing the fight scene as we as a group felt that this might be difficult, I came across this video analysing some of Jackie Chan's films and the style he uses for making funny fight scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

Although there is a huge amount of really good information in this video, I found the comments about editing and flow to be very interesting, talking about how static camera positions and longer shots can completely change the flow and feel of a fight scene.  I think some of these techniques could be useful for the fight scene in our film, as we plan for it to be the main funny part of the film.