Production diary 1 - the Chinese new year trip in Birmingham

Today I went on the trip to Birmingham which is held by school. The trip is to celebrate Chinese New Year as on the 5th Feburary is Chinese Luna New Year, which is a big festival to Chinese people.

On the day, I went with one of our actor, Cynthia, to film what she did in this trip. Here are some photos.

This is one of the establishing shot, or it could say the location shot that I could add the subtitle and to show the audience where we are. 

Another location shot in Birmingham

This is Cynthia that I filmed her at the first time. Since I use phone to film, it seems to be quite small

This is another angle shot of Cynthia that I filmed her by standing next to her. But same, during that day, when I filmed, I put the phone veritical which made the it looks quite small

This is the resturant where we had the lunch which is a Korean resturant

After the lunch, Cynthia and I and her friend decided to go to a museum, we used to decide to go to the jewery museum, but when we walked to that museum, we saw this museum and Cynthia and her friend changed their mind. This is a establishing shot that I want to show where we were

And here is a long shot that I showed where we are and also I keep focusing on my character

Similar to the top one, but here I made the camera slightly tilt up to show the whole look of the Victoria Square Museum

Here acturally is a tilt up shot that I tilt up to show the point of view of Cynthia and her friend (as they look up)

And this is the shot of them that they are looking up and discuss about the design of the building

This is a shot in museum

This is thhe ceiling of the museum, the reason that I took this shot is because I think it could be a good transition

I only filmed half day of the trip, this is because after we went to the museum, Cynthia had lots of things that she want to buy and we have separated for a long time. During that time, I was carrying stuff and I couldn't film anything. During the dinner, which I chose hot pot, since we were all eating that I fogot to film it.

I used to work more on editing than filming when I was doing my coursework as I think my filming skills are not well which Melissa, my teammate is much better than me. So this could be the first time that I film for my product, and I think sometimes I was struggled to film that I do not know what should I film. Also, since I only told Cynthia that I would film her but she could just do what she want and I just film, sometimes when I put down the phone, some good image or things that I could take and I have lost the opportunity to film. For example, when we first met Cynthia's friend, they huged each other and I just put down my phone! When I wanted to film it, they already finished the hug and I have lost it. It is quite disappointed to me that many good things and images that I could take but I just lost the opportunities.

But overall, as our product's main focus is school life, and this trip we may just put some of the footages in, I think I still got enough footages of the trip. And honestly, it is quite a good experience to me as I have never filmed anything for the product before.