1st day of filming - evaluation

Yesterday Lewis, Bronte and Jess filmed approximately 3/4 of our thriller opening. We booked the camera from 4pm and returned it the next morning. As originally planned we started to film as soon as it started to become dark in order for the lighting to be dark and mysterious to fit the conventions of a thriller. Most of the filming went to plan, as we had organised and planned the filming beforehand in order to minimise the problems and issues that may have occurred on the day. Our storyboard and shot list was particularly helpful as it enabled us to have a guide to work from in order to make the filming process more efficiently done and more straightforward.

However, some aspects we were unable to control - as it was snowing continously throughout the day there was a chance that we were going to be unable to film and that would have ment that we would have had to postpone it to another day. This would have had to be after halfterm as Jess went to Poland on a school trip the next day and was not returning until Friday. Despite this we filmed from between around 4:30 pm and 5:45pm. The area in which we had chosen to film in was a busier road than we anticpated and as a result we experienced many vehicles going past and during the busier times, we had to stop filming for a while before continuing to film again as we tried to reduce problems with the sound quality.

The plan is to film the 1/4 we have left to do after halfterm when the 'Stalker board' has been made. As this part is being filmed inside we expect that less problems are likely to occur and we have an efficient time to plan the filming process for this part.