Production: Day 1

 Production: Day 1 The start of our film 

Today marks day 1 for filming our chess films and there are some things I would like to address in this blog post.

Our mistakes. 

As a director I have learned to quickly own up to mistakes that my crew and I have done during day 1 of filming so that we can do better for day 2 and 3. The phrase, “ Revise, Regroup, and re-evaluate” was the main idea for today. Thinking this way allowed us to actively review our methods and footage, adjust anything that needs to be adjust, and then re-assess our approach. For instance, my cinematographer and I had to revise our shot log, specifically the camera shot, angle, and movement. We ended up changing the camera shots and angles for a lot of scenes after taking a few test runs of the original and coming to the conclusion that we need to switch our strategy for a better more meaningful shot. Fortunately, we had assistance from our producer and we were able to reassemble our ideas, and set a new meaning for the shot. 

A still photo of our producer assisting us with a different angle

A still of my cinematographer and I revising the camera shot and angle for scene 2

On the other hand, everything went as plan. During our pre-production phase I have created an agenda so that we are on track with all the scenes that we must shot per filming day, therefore we were on track, completed our day 1 scenes right on the dot before returning to class.