Filming day one

Today we began filming for our opening title sequence at Aidan's mum's work place. Once we arrived we took some time to arrange the set and prepare for a few hours of filming which was going to take place over the day. Since Aidan had previously moved the furniture setting up did not take very long allowing us to start filming promptly.  However after starting we realised we did not have a particular photo we needed. This meant that we would need another day to film however in hindsight I realised that we weren't going to film it in one day anyway so it was good that we could spread it over two days and spend as much time as we thought necessary on different shots.
To film we used mainly one camera however we did have access to another of the same quality. This main camera is the Nikon D2300 which is capable of filming in 1080p as well as making use of the Rode Videomic we attached to it to increase audio quality.

Using such a advanced camera was very useful as it allowed us to control small variables such as light which will impact the final result in a large way. As we want the identity of the detective to remain hidden from the audience we had decided to use shadows to conceal his face however the level of light in the room prevented us from doing this well. By adjusting the shutter speed we could darken scenes and make them more like our desired ones.

As we didn't have all the photos I suggested that we filmed all of the board scenes the next day as this would allow us to film of the shots which involved the prop at once and minimized potential continuity errors which may be in our final product due to the misplacement of photos.

Even though this limited us to mainly desk shots we had an ample amount of props to make the scenes look realistic and entertaining. 

Lastly to make sure we were getting everything we had planned filmed we constantly consulted the storyboard to film as many shots as we could in the time we had on the first day.