Filming Weekend

With everything ready for filming we collected our equipment on Friday afternoon and began to shoot at 10am Saturday. We each had a shot list in the order they needed to be filmed so we headed to our first location. The equipment was set up, the crew were ready for filming and we had our character in position. Just as we began, the weather took a turn for the worst and we were facing heavy rain and high wind. This left us struggling to keep the camera dry as well as losing quality of sound due to the wind. Due to the weather we had to change our schedule a little in order for us to continue filming but avoid the weather issues. This took us inside to film, which became a little crowded at times but still managed to shoot the scenes successfully. As the inside filming came to an end we had to Begin filming our outside scenes which we had scheduled for Saturday, luckily the rain had stopped by this time and we were able to film for the rest of the day with no issues regarding weather.





On Sunday we began at the same time and the weather was a lot better, however these gave issues with continuity. Luckily we were filming undercover and used ND filters on the camera to make it seem a little darker. Filming once again ran smoothly although had some issues with peoples roles and how they weren't fulfilling them entirely. Firstly directing the film was left down to a couple of people rather than the person who was assigned the job, as the camera man I found myself directing the cast and choosing the shots alongside the sound recordist.The cast were relatively efficient however one of our actors failed to turn up on the Sunday leaving us with a last minute decision on what to shoot. This upset the schedule slightly but we were soon back on track and at the end of the day we had plenty of time spare to do any last adjustments so we decided to re shoot the first scene we did on Saturday morning as it didn't look great due to the weather conditions. At the end of the day we captured all our footage and watched it back as a group looking to see if there were any mistakes.