Friday 12 April 2013

'Whenever I am Shooting a Film I Never Think of How I Want to Shoot Something I Simply Shoot It'

After all our thorough research it came to finally getting to shoot our film! This was quite scary for us because  we were going out for the first time (besides our preliminary task) to shoot our film that we had been focusing on for weeks, with a brand new DSLR camera and we had very high expectations! I think looking back on everything we did whilst shooting, I think we should have planned and organised everything a lot better, be it giving ourselves more time or just doing a more thorough storyboard.

DAY ONE:
On the 9th March 2013 we decided to go out for the first time and start shooting. The first thing we wanted to shoot was the story at the beginning of our film in Olivia's bedroom so this meant travelling up to Georgia's dad's house in Croydon so we could use her little sister and her dad. We got the train straight after school and arrived at her house at approx. 6pm, when we got there we talked about our film for a bit and ate dinner (and lots of it!). We were planning to film that evening but due to the time and our tiredness we decided to only film the outside of the house and wait until the morning to film the main bit as everyone would be more enthusiastic and awake. Then in the morning at about 11am we started filming, having to cross the barrier of natural light coming in through the window by using black out blinds, and were able to shoot all of the beginning half of our film in one day.

DAY TWO:
The next day we decided to film was one of the days in the following half term holiday. Unfortunately due to my holiday booked already, I was skiing when they filmed the next bit. They showed me how they filmed some of the card scene, in the Holyport field (just by their houses) and they made our leading man role come just in their normal clothes. This resulted in him wearing jeans and air max trainers; possibly not the right representation of 'hero' that we wanted! After looking back on this footage we decided that it wasn't really right for our film and so chose to take this filming as a sort of 'practice' as it helped us to get techniques and thus hopefully making our next go at it more successful.

DAY THREE:
Me and georgia then decided that we had to go out and film again because obviously we were not too keen on our first shoot. When we thought about the changes we had to make in order for our movie to be the best it could be, we decided that we should relocate and shoot in the middle of town. This gave us more of the 'Forrest Gump feather' style we were looking for and enabled us to get across to the audience the fact that this card was magical and unique. However after filming in two different locations in Maidenhead town, we decided that the one we liked we didn't have enough footage for, thus leading us to our fourth shoot!

DAY FOUR:
On this day we were able to capture the footage that we didn't get the third time we tried. This meant that we had to go back to the same location in town with our actors and shoot everything exactly the same as we had before in order for us to put it together with our previous footage. Obviously when we looked back on the continuity between the third day and fourth day footage, there were lots of errors so we decided to scrap all these clips meaning that we would have to go out on another day!

DAY FIVE:
This was our final shooting day (yay) and was where we decided to film more scenes of the feather flying around town to try and emphasis the fact that it was magical. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the filming personally but from feedback from the other members of  my group and having watched the clips they filmed myself, I think everything went very well and we used pretty much all the clips they filmed that day in our final piece.

Overall the filming process was fun but a very long process due to our lack of organisation and making amaeteur errors. However I do think we were able to stick to our time constrants (even if we did leave things until last minute) and this resulted in us being able to make our fantastic film!

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