Film Diary (25/11/17) After

Today we filmed the majority of our narrative. The filming went decently well but some of the footage and acting suffered, consequently from the cold weather.

Initially, we went to the Mundy playing fields, our local park, there were several implications with filming that altered our filming. We required certain shots, as part of our main sequence, that required equipment that was not accessible to us. we required 4 bikes in order to capture some tracking shots, however, my brother and I left them at our old house, we both don't have keys to that house. We experienced further implications, due to the weather. It was foretasted to be sunny with slight cloud, when in fact, it was heavy cloud with small pockets of light rain. This delayed filming as we couldn't afford the camera to get damaged with water. This had further implications as the sky got darker resulting in several continuity errors. It also got a lot colder, therefore the actors were getting fed up and just wanted to go as fast as they could. The coldness also affected the battery life, as the camera wasn't ours or used for filming by the owner, she didn't know how long it would last at room temperatures, let alone in 4 degrees. The other huge drawback was the amount of light we had. As we started in the afternoon (2pm) we planned to have been out for 2 hours max. The weather forecast had said it would be sunny with clouds. However it wasn't sunny and the rain delayed us. The filming too until around 5pm. 

The actors didn't mess around, due to how cold it was, they just did what they had to do and not mess around. This allowed us to capture things from different angles and experiment a little. After we got into the filming, it went relatively smooth and efficiently and we captured exactly what we wanted. Now we can review the footage in the editing suite and focus on any parts worth re filming.