Today is Saturday, December 19th and yesterday we just completeted our first day of production filming. In this day of production filming, we tasked ourselves with completeing the first and second scenes. However, in the previous blogs I had discussed how our group had identified and reviewed some of our logisitcal concerns that could hamper filming. These included time for work. baseball practice, softball practice, tenis and volleyball conditioning, and just other priortized duties. Additionally, I had mentioned yesterday, Friday the 18th, was in fact a shortened school day for midterms. Despite this reality, the filming process went over very smoothly and we did not have interferance from school work as much of it could be completed before the filming date.
Not to be carried too far off topic, the purpose of this blog today was to discussing the proccess on which we shot the car drone and aeriel shots. In these scenes we made use of my DJI Mavic 2 Pro Drone. The Mavic 2 Pro is a drone that allows you to capture stunning aierl photography with it's 4k camera while still maintaining a standard of saftey with its all around sensors. This matched our needs for the film perfectly as the resolution on the camera would match that of the GoPro's, another device we were going to be using to film with, and prevented any collisions with pedestrains, vehicles, or ambient objects. The first takes that we took, were taken in the nearby house of which we were filming at. We took some car rolling shots from the front and behind, in addition to some birds eye pov shots from a sum of approximently 200 feet above the ground. However, one technical difficulty we ran into while trying to film at this location, was the quick shots feature, was restricted on the the drone operators screen. What we later found it was, this was caused by a flight restriction, due to the drones proximenty to an international airport. It was really cool to see this feature implemented, however it slightly hamped how we were to film. Despite this reality, we switched locations to another one of our group members houses to complete the filming for scene one. This location was out of the flight restricted zone, and allowed us to complete all the "quick shots" for the first scene that we needed. Additionally, this location had a lot less obstacles to worry about while flying, so the operator could come lower and closer to the jeep/ This is what allowed us to conlude this scene with some stunning shots. Overall I am very pleased with how the day went, and look forward to sharing my thoughts on thee second scene we filmed yesterday.
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