Production: Day 2

During Production day 2 we mainly focused on different groups of actors. Unlike day 1, our scenes in a different location, establishing the setting in the made-up world, Chesstopia. Picking this second location included considering lighting, whether the sun was shinning or not, and whether there would frequent movement in the backgrounds. 

A still photo of location 1

A still photo of location 2 

On the other hand, we were confronted with an issue that affected our process. The first few scenes in the shot log were out of order and the stuff we were filming did not match up with what was written on the shot log. For instance, scene 3 in the shot log was written as the Black chessmen advancing towards the white chessmen. However, we ended up filming that for scene 12 and scene 3 ended up showing the two players in the middle of the game. We ended up not using a few scenes that were stated on the shot log(for the main reason that the film would be too long), which caused a huge confusion. After evaluating, I have realized that it was lack of communication between me and my cinematographer that caused a mess up in the shot log. Certain scenes that my cinematographer wrote on the shot log were not matching up with the scenes that I had wrote in the script. Instead of going separate ways on the shot log, we should’ve took the time out of our days to call and discuss how the shot log together. Therefore, there would not be any mix up or confusion later on in production. Now we know what to do differently. Luckily, we were able to regroup quickly and make revisions with the scenes that were no longer good. Other than that, everything went smoothly with timing and getting scenes complete