Filming review

Day one of filming - Friday

On the first day I managed to finish most of the filming that was to be done in Wymondham, both inside the house and in the street. It didn't take too long to film all the scenes in the house and most of the shots worked really well with no hitches. Emily found it quite easy to get into the character and most shots didn't take long to film at all. The only scene that didn't work so well was trying to film Emily entering the bathroom. Due to her bathroom being small there wasn't any space to stand the tripod except for in the bath. It was very challenging to get the tripod to balance in the bath and once that was achieved it was a challenge for Emily to enter the room without bursting into fits of laughter. We soon managed to get a shot though and after that everything ran smoothly again. After getting home and uploading the footage to my computer I noticed a few things that need to be re-filmed for various reasons and also a few thing that need to be filmed to help make sense of the sequence. These are just a few shots that shouldn't take too long to re-film and so I arranged to film this on Sunday.

Day two of filming - Saturday

On the second day of filming I managed to get most of the shots from the city of Emily skating around and putting the posters up. Most of the filming on this day went well and we didn't get too many interruptions from other people asking what we were doing or walking into shot. Due to us working in one specific area in Norwich for filming it meant that we didn't have to walk far between location and we got the filming done fairly quickly. I managed to get lots of good shots of Emily skateboarding, though sometimes these shots did prove difficult to capture. Emily is slightly shy when it comes to skating and so although she was willing to do it in front of the camera, she didn't like doing it when strangers were watching which meant we spent a little of our time waiting for people to go past before we filmed. It was also easy to film Peter as there was only about four shots that I needed to film with him and after I had shot these he could leave so I and Emily could finish the rest. Most of the filming though did run smoothly with no distractions and we managed to wrap everything up within an hour of starting.

When I put this footage on my laptop I didn't notice anything that needed to be re-filmed as most of the shots were of good quality. While filming though I did come up with a new shot which would emphasise the fact that Emily is being watched a followed. I decided to use a high angle shot of her coming out of the under passage so that I could later while editing make the footage look like that of a security camera.

Day three of filming - Sunday

One the third day I managed to finish all the filming which was just the few shots that needed to be re-filmed at Emily's. All the filming on this day went well and we managed to finish the filming in half an hour. It was very easy to get the shots as Emily already knew what she had to do, having already done the actions on Friday. The only problem was that her mother kept interrupting the filming, but we still managed to finish all the filming in no time at all. None of the footage should need to be re-filmed as I checked the footage before leaving and everything looked good.  

With all the filming that I did, I used my storyboards on all three days to help me know what scene I was filming where and also what shots and angles I planned to use with these scenes. I found that using it was very helpful and it helped to make everything run smoothly on all three days and also helped to make sure I didn't miss scenes out by mistake. The use of having the storyboard helped me keep on track what I needed to film and my detailed notes that went along with it helped me know what shots I wanted for the scene.