River - First Outdoor Filming Session

In this filming session, we got the first few outdoor shots done. This was a hard filming session. Although the sun was out in a few shots, it was bitterly cold outside and it was hard to get much done. It was also quite windy, which hindered the audibility of the audio. We tried our best to mitigate this. We used a small microfiber bag and wrapped it around the end of the microphone, but there was only so much we could do. The audio turned out to be pretty unusable, so we will have to dub that later.

Despite our issues, we managed to get a few shots done that we can use. We got the whole scene of Kevin waking up and talking to Ron. These shots worked well, overall I am happy with how this scene went. Ideally, we would have gotten more done, but there is still plenty of time to go out and film the rest of this scene.

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