Going into our second day of shooting we were now filming all the scenes between the mother and daughter that took place at the home. Though this was indoors we were able to use lights, thus allowing us to better light the scenes - something that was impossible when shooting in the museum.
When I arrived at Briana's house to film I set up my camera as well as my two Godox SL150w III lights. Though the lights kept the scene well lit and the adjustable brightness aided in varying scenes I was unable to change the lights temperature, which meant the light's temperature did not match the scene itself. For example, when lighting the scene in the bedroom I wanted to match my lights to the overhead lights. The overhead lights in the bedroom were about 4200K whereas mine were stuck at 5600K. This issue pervaded throughout all of filming since we couldn't change my light's kelvin at any point.
The other primary change I made during the second day of filming was the usage of manual focus. This allowed for far more visually compelling shots, as well as allowing me to have more control over what was going on in each of my shots.
Though the day was successful, allowing us to capture all we needed it took extremely long - nearly 6 hours. This is partially due to a lack of organization on my part as I did not have a shot list. I took the same approach I did during the first day of filming which was look at the script and feel out the shots I wanted to get. Despite this allowing me to spontaneously come up with some shots that I loved, it decreased efficiency and caused us to shoot far more than we needed. A shot list is definitely a necessity.
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