Production Journal: End of Filming

These 2 days (Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd of August) have been of intensive filming, rough, first hand editing, and lots of technological managing.

With 3 cameras at our disposal, and a tripod, shots were made, including interviews to subjects, furtherly analized in the "data log," establishing shots spending a great amount of time and memory capacity, and the most simple, but not easy or trivial at all, close-ups of security cameras.

Weather was very helpful (no rain), except for the extreme cold.

Some difficulties were found, especially when encountering frequent low-batteries and needs to quickly recharge. Also, the memory of the cameras in hand did go out in some ocassions, so we had to download our footage several times into the laptop. Our first intentions of recording audio separate from video were unsuccesful, as our equipment wasn't prepared enough. An establishing shot of aproximately 40 minutes long which was prepared to be fast-forwarded, has been probably lost between the first-hand download to the laptop.

But, we were able to film over 10 interviews, over 4 long, establishing shots, several close-ups. Also, we thoroughly researched over which b-roll footage we were going to use and decided a final list of videos. Obviously, the majority of our tries to interview random people were a failure, but several hours of work ended up in us having many of them, and many quotes to choose from.

Some plans had to be changed (for example, due to the discovery of a great establishing view from Ramiro's balcony, we didn't have to travel through the city to capture that specific shot), but we followed more or less our shot list, our location list, and we strictly worked according to our roles. I filmed the shots, being the cameraman, and also prepared them, as the mis-en-scene. Now, I will be the one encharged of transcribing the interviews and deciding on the punch quotes to be used, also creating subtitles and the script.

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