Filming!

On Wednesday 26th October, we decided to start filming some of our trailer. The filming went well and we got some good footage that we can include in our trailer, but as we anticipated, there were a few problems, but these can be easily resolved.


We originally wanted the footage to be shot when it was beginning to get dark, to give a spooky feel to the trailer, but when we arrived at Jo's house and were ready to film we realised that, as it was early evening, the light was too dark and it was making the quality of the footage look poor, but we decided to carry on and make the most of the time we had.


Due to the fact that it was getting dark we decided to leave the outdoors filming for another day and get on with the filming indoors. We had a list of ideas that we wanted to try out and also had our storyboards to hand so we could remember what we had already planned down.


We had a lot of fun when filming the footage, and we found it easy to work with our actors as they participated well and listened to the information that we gave them, and also helped us develop our ideas further with their own input which helped a lot.


Myself and Jo shared out the work equally. We think that it is important that we both do the same amount of work so we spent a equal amount of time on the camera filming, and both participated when directing our actors. I think we work well together because we both have a similar vision of what we want at the end, and we share ideas well and then both talk to try and develop these ideas. This was an advantage to us when filming because we communicated well and tried out a range of idea which we can then look at in editing and come to a decision about what worked best.


Although we managed to get a lot of successful footage, when we put it onto the computer and were able to look at it properly, we saw that there was a lot of improvement to be made on some shots. We thought that this was going to happen, and it was beneficial to us because we can now see what parts worked and what parts we need to improve. We are therefore going to have another day of filming where we can shoot some new ideas and also re-shoot some bits that didn't go to plan first time.