Planning: Evaluating Film Shoots

Monday 23rd October

On Monday we had a day of filming in the locations of the Park and Brigg Town. We were extremely successful because we managed to film half of the scenes we wanted. Although we planned to do all of Brigg Town we managed to do half of the park and half of Brigg. This lead to it being more entertaining and kept us on our toes. It also allowed us to have a change of scenery to keep our brains alert for our ideas. Due to having a practice shoot before hand, we found it a lot easier to film different angles and shot types. Everyone brought the essentials and props we needed which meant we could start shooting straight away.

Due to it being school half term and Brigg containing four schools, the high street was busy so we couldn't get certain shots where our actor needed to be alone. We didn't think it through very well so we had to move locations to the park. At the park we had problems with a group of teenage lads. they were very noisy and were a potential threat as when we tried to move they followed us around. This meant we had to find an empty part of Brigg Town to film in. It wasn't quite what we were looking for but the shots looked great. Although when we moved to this new location, members of the public kept walking past so we had to allow time for them to be out of the shot before filming.

Tuesday 24st October

Tuesday we filmed at the location, Kenza's House. This shoot was more successful than the previous day as we completed every shot off of our script breakdown. Connor through out all of the shoots has been very easy to work with and has fully co-operated with everything we have asked him to do. The only problem we had on the Tuesday was that we had the idea of Connor stood somewhere in te location. On this day it was raining so we couldn't film outside and there wasn't anywhere in side that would have looked right. We concluded that, if we get the shot in our other locations we wouldn't necessarily need it. If we did then we would plan another day to shoot it.

Sunday 29th October

Sunday turned out to be a very short day for us. We only managed to film for an hour before the heavens opened. We thought Sunday would be fine for filming as it would be quiet in town and the weather forecast scheduled sunshine and said nothing about rain. The footage we got turned out good but due to the rain we have scheduled for Sunday 5th November at the same time of 12 pm.