Filming process

Before we started to film we thought it was going to be a long process of framing up and doing takes after takes of footage. however filming went much more smoother than we expected, i think this was because we as a group worked really well together and our actors were really hard working and easy to direct; both giving really great performances.


During filming we did encounter some problems:

Continuity was a main issue. When we would change room we would leave the room in which used the way it was after we finished filming, leaving doors and other objects around the room in different positions. Also where we using a extension lead we had to be careful where we placed it as it kept being left in the back of shot. This left us more to do on the second day of filming.

When we started to film we also had another problem, this was lighting. We wanted to film a the images of the girl getting ready in her bedroom, however the lighting in the room was really dark, so we changed room to the bathroom instead. However in the bathroom the light was brighter in there the light still seemed like there was something wrong with it. We tried adding additional lighting via lamps and even torch but this however did not work, so we looked along the camera and found a switch which controls the brightness of the camera and it had been turn down to the bottom setting. Luckily enough we had only filmed a couple of shots so they had to be re filmed, but other than that it was fine.

After these errors the rest of filming ran quite smoothly thanks to our great actors who took the piece very seriously and also the fact we had built some expearience via our prelim task also meant that we were able to be fast and confident with using the camera and the tripod which really sped up the filming process.