My opening sequence involved the kidnap of a young girl which was filmed outside thus leading to some problems that I anticipated. The first problem that i encountered was noise from the main road. Because we shot outside we did not have the benefit of a set, to avoid too much sound coming from the road and busses driving past I had to wait till the roads seemed clear. I filmed in the late morning which meant i could avoid to much disturbing sounds as it was on a weekend on sunday when people would be sleeping.
The second anticipated problem was where to shoot my high angle shots. I included a high angle shot because it would add drama as it would show the daughter being kidnapped. Having a high angle shot will make the audience feel further away and thus feeling more helpless. I used my house to shoot as i filmed on my road. I tried shooting from various windows but some were too low and some didn't give me the range of movement i needed to execute my pan like I wanted. Eventually i went to the top of the house and found a window that opened fully and even had a ledge which enabled to film my shot with a range of movements. The fact that there was a ledge helped me use a tripod which helped with the quality of the shot as the ground level shots were filmed with a tripod and shoulder mount, the ledge enabled me to use a tripod to film the high angle shots which guaranteed continuity in the quality and steadiness of my shots.
Nevertheless, there was also some issues which arose just before my filming of my opening sequence which i hadn't anticipated. For instance it started to rain shortly before i starting filming. This meant that everyone needed to be provided with waterproof clothing on the shoot, this included umbrellas for the actors, crew and equipment, between each shots we had warm drinks and warm clothes for everyone which took time to prepare. The rain also meant that the lighting of the film was different and that the sound of rain was an issue as it harder to hear the actors speak. To resolve this we had to ask the actors to speak louder. However i realised that the rain i could take the rain into my advantage by using it to make the film seem sadder and more sinister as rain adds a more depressing and somber tone to the film. The fact that we had to give the actors umbrellas to shelter them from the rain limited me from using a variety of camera angles as they were in the way, although this was a problem i tried to incorporate this into my opening sequence my deliberating keeping the mother and her friend over shadowed by the umbrellas in most shots, giving the opening sequence a similar tone to the girl in Schlinders list as the girl is seen but not the adults and the mies en scene of her school uniform accentuates her innocence. The first time you get a clear shot of the mother and friends faces is when they are running towards the girl who has just been kidnapped which i hope increase the impact of that shot.
Finally the cannon legria hf g10 camera was unexpectedly shooting in the tone sepia. We only found this out once downloading the rushes onto the laptop when the cast had gone home. This made it very challenging to colour coordinate it with the other canon eos 550d as that was filmed in a normal colour. Which resulted in hours of colour coordinating.
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