TRANSITION; FILMING DAY TWO

Day two of filming for our Riverdale Recreation was on Friday May 4th, we were filming with two external actors in The Maidstone Studios diner. The diner was something that we hadn't used or been in before, it wasn't until someone from our course suggested it to us that we looked into it and found it to be a perfect fit for our shoot. It looks like a classic normal american diner which is exactly what we needed, so when we arrived for the day of filming we were extremely happy with what we saw.

At first glance, we thought we may have some issues with lighting, there was a huge main light which would make the room very bright, we didn't want this as the scene is set at nighttime and we were going for a dim look overall. We only had with us on the day the set of LED lights, so we had to find our way around that as best we could. Something that did come in handy however, was that the diner had 2 sets of red fairy lights already hung up, the addition of these with just the LED lights and the bar lights (a few dim lights hanging overhead the bar) meant that we got a dark and red light throughout the shoot, which i really liked. Myself and Sonia went to pick up our actors from the train station, whilst we did that Katie and Laura asked Ferg to help them with the lighting, from his suggestion we placed the lights outside of the diner, shining through the window onto the table our cast was going to be sitting on, this meant that it was light enough for us to film, but not too bright that it came off as happy or daytime.

The actors that we had for the day were really good, it was my first experience using external people for a fiction student project but i think the day went a lot smoother and the footage that came from it is of a lot higher quality because of the actors that we had. For the shot we had our director Sonia, our DoP Laura and myself and Katie who took turns recording sound. I also was going over the script whist we were shooting, making sure we got everything we needed.

Katie began editing instantly, this really helped us because it has given us a lot of time to sort any issues that we have. I had a few ideas such as
- Including a shot of Jughead beginning to type once his milkshake is brought over and the montage begins, i think from a narrative perspective it would make it flow better
- Zooming in on a close up at the end of Jugheads last line; if possible