Project Rogue is underway! We were able to dedicate 2 full days and a half days to filming. From what we learnt from the Wednesday the week before, we were able to meet early in the morning and stay till later to get it done. 

On Sunday, we filmed the scene where agent Whyte teleports to 2024 and familiarises herself with all the new technologies of the 21st century. Her curiosity and clumsy nature was able to truly shine through Zoe’s acting. One thing that we had to figure out was making the scenes flow with one another when switching locations. If Agent Whyte left the scene through a door, we had to make sure the next scene was consistent. One shot that I found very fun to do was the dolly zoom, demonstrating Agent Whyte’s feelings of being overwhelming, but shown visually. 

Even though we had a shot list, there was a lot of communication on set on ways we could better portray the action and getting consistent shots but from different angles was very tedious. Some challenges we faced were the lighting changes, as it got later into the day, it got darker. We did try to combat this using a handheld light but also discussing ways to make it better in post production. It also took a little bit longer because we were down a group member but overall the rest of us got more than ¾ of our scenes done. Monday’s filming day was very similar, but learning from experience and getting used to the equipment we were able to work more efficiently. 

The filming process helped me learn a lot about camera work, using microphones, a slate and how it is a collaborative process. The slate is especially useful in the editing process to speed along the process of organising our takes. 

After all the filming was done, we met in the editing suites to start the editing process. We started to rename and pick out which takes worked best. Something to improve on for future projects is reshooting scenes that were out of focus. On set we would review our footage but it would’ve been helpful to have a monitor for another group member to review. Furthermore, constantly checking audio levels and wearing headphones while filming. We found out that one of our lapel mics had some glitchy audio in one of the scenes but ultimately we were able to manipulate it in a way that made the audio useful.