Filming Day

We were originally meant to meet on the Sunday to shoot for our film, but due to issues taking out equipment on the Friday before, we had to reschedule. We decided to film on the following Tuesday because unfortunately this meant that the equipment would have to be returned the next day so we had to film everything at once, but I was confident that we could.

We met at 1:00 to get out the equipment and we all met at the equipment hire, here we ran into a few problems. We had all the forms ready including permission to film but we did not have an equipment list so we could not get the equipment out straight away. Instead we had to wait until we could get an equipment list which took quite some time and set us back a few hours. Afterwards we went to lidl to get some props, we bought: a small chocolate cake, 3 jam doughnuts and whip cream for the food sections of our film. It came to around £3.07 which me and Nicole split between us. 

We got back to my house, where we filmed, at around 3.30 pm and started to setup. We arranged the room to make more space and placed plastic sheets on the floor and a small VHS TV in the corner of the room. I liked the look with the plastic and TV on the floor as it gave the room an eerie, strange vibe and would keep the floors clean. We also setup one of the red head lights and Nicole added a blue filter and two diffusion sheets to give the room a bright but natural glow, which darkness around the edges. We also setup the camera, tripod (to a mid height), the microphone and covered the window with a black sheet so the only light we had was from the red head.

It took us around 3 hours to print overall and in my opinion it went really well, considering we had the pressure of filming all in one day I think everything went quite smoothly. We followed the shot list that I had made and this really helped with the flow of filming. I think we worked well as a group and everyone gave their opinions and ideas on the shots which really helped. I also thought Yasmin, as our actress, worked really well, she got herself into the roll and was really enthusiastic about helping us with our film.