Shooting Day 1 - Inside

After shooting the initial scene outside by the fountain we entered the museum to film all the scenes in there. As mentioned in prior posts about my camera and my lens, we had difficulty in many areas of the museum capturing properly exposed footage due to the low/poor lighting conditions in various areas. In order to account for the poor lighting I had to raise the ISO on my camera to between 1000 and 2000 - which had a major impact on the quality of the footage. 

Thankfully, multiple parts of the museum were near windows and had very good natural lighting. Recognizing this I made a concerted effort to focus more on filming in the areas of the museum which had this natural light. Upon doing so we were able to capture properly exposed footage while simultaneously keeping the ISO relatively normal/low - typically 640. 

When filming I did not have a shot list, but we did bring the script so what I did instead of using a shot list was looking over the script and shooting a scene multiple times for various angles, thus allowing Karina - our editor - more flexibility in filming when choosing which shots are best to work with.

You can clearly see the difference in lighting when comparing a shot from an area with no natural light and low overhead lights, compared to an area with large windows and multiple bright, overhead lights. As I had suggested in the posts about my camera's poor low light capabilities, it is important I adapt what we shoot to be in more well lit areas to ensure we produce properly exposed footage that isn't noisy.