Filming Problems and Solutions

I ran into a problem filming the car ride scene, as I had to make it believable that the car was moving, this was difficult because the angle at which the camera points shows the view from the driver's seat window. I fixed this problem by pointing the camera more towards the girl driving the car, which blocks the view out of the window a little. This makes it more believable.

Another filming problem I ran into was filming the part of the scene where the car rides fast over a speed bump. Filming it just from inside the car didn't give the audience the idea that the car had driven fats over a speed bump, so I decided to film this section from outside the car using a wide shot to show the entire car going over the speed bump. This way the audience will be able to see the car almost "flying" or lifting off the ground a little after driving over the speed bump and then I will have a cut back to the reactions inside the car as the car went over the speed bump.

Lighting was a relatively small problem, considering I was filming on location. The sun sometimes shone through the windows too much, making it almost impossible to clearly see the people in the scene. To somewhat prevent this I attempted to position the camera as much as I could away from the sun, so that there was no glare, and if a window wasn't going to be seen in the shot I would block it off with a window shade or makeshift shade of some sort to block or lessen the sun as much as I could. Though this would not always work, so I simply had to move the car so that the direct sunlight wasn't facing the front of the car. However the day I was filming it was raining so the light didn't shine too bright.

The angling of the camera was another problem I ran into, because the car was too small for me to be in the car to film it while the other people were in it. So to fix this, to the best of my ability, i filmed through the open window of the car at an angle that showed as much as possible.
During this filming process I also realized that the sound of the dialogue was not very good. The actors had to speak louder, but in certain shots it didn't seem very audible. I will have to fix the majority of the audio sounds in editing.