Filming Day #2 (Part 1)

 Hi there! So, back to it! When we arrived at Barnes & Noble, it wasn’t hard to get back into the groove of things. It was just like filming the first time. We went back to our original filming location with ease and were able to get everything all setup.

We took out a few books from the shelf that was behind Amelie the first day we filmed. It was so cool to replace the empty slot with something I had made just hours before. Obviously, the books I made were a little out of place mixed in with the professionally bound and published ones, but I must say, they looked very professional! We took a pan of the whole shelf and paused on our homemade books briefly. This way, the audience could read exactly what we were trying to highlight. It took a few takes. We went back and forth deciding how far the cinematographer should stand from the bookshelf for what effect we were going for.

Of course, we had to make sure we were shooting in cinematic mode, on my phone. That way we could match the consistency of quality and look from our previous filming day. Cinematic mode proved to be somewhat challenging to film with this time around. We wanted to zoom in on certain places, but there are only options for 1x zoom and 3x zoom on this mode. We wound up manually moving closer to or further from the subject of the shot. The video consistency was more important to us than convenience. So, we made do. It really was no big deal!

Our books looked so good on the shelf!

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