Shooting Day 1 - Outside

Following the completion of our revised story we went to film at Mizner Park at the Boca Art Museum. Where we'd film the dream sequence where she dreams about her graduation, all the flashbacks of the Mom and daughter, and the scene where the daughter went to visit the museum following her Mother's death. 

The sequence which we shot was the dream sequence about her graduation, then all the scenes inside the museum, concluding with the scene of the daughter exiting the car/entering the museum.

When filming this first scene outside I put a small UV filter onto my lens (at approximately 35mm in focal length) in order to balance out the exposure on the subjects. I had the aperture at f/4.5, the ISO at 200 (the lowest it can go on my camera), and the shutter speed at 1/1000. Though the high shutter speed allowed for proper exposure of the subjects in the image, the motion blur does not appear natural in the video itself, creating an odd contrast between the footage inside and outside. 

After filming inside, I hadn't adjusted the exposure settings on my camera in order to account for the lighting coming from the outside. Because of this, when I was shooting the scene of Briana leaving the museum it went from the proper exposure inside to being entirely over-exposed as she walks out.

When we shot the scene inside the car, Briana's character and her cousin were properly exposed, however, the outside was completely overexposed - causing an odd look when the camera looks out of the windshield and the windows.

A similar issue occurred when shooting the scene where Briana exits the car, due to the outside being entirely overexposed once she exited the car the shot was completely blown out. In order to fix this, I raised the shutter speed to 1/2000, but didn't put on my UV filter. Due to raising the shutter speed so much, the exposure was good but once again there is a lack of "natural" looking motion blur. 

In order to account for how bright it was outside I should've bought and used a variable ND filter which would've allowed me to properly expose the shot without having to continually raise and lower my shutter speed (thus creating inconsistent motion blur in each shot). It would've been especially helpful for the shot of Briana walking out of the museum as I could've had the filter set to 0 as she was inside the museum, and then raised the ND filter as she walked out, thus creating a shot that isn't blown out.