Shooting Diary

For my shooting diary I am keeping a written diary of all the days of filming, of when I did it and any problems that I had and how I overcame them.

         Filming Day One

20/01/2015

Beverly Train Station

As I had problems with casting and having one of my actors pull out, I had to change the dates back of filming originally from December now I am having to film in January. However this is not a problem anymore because I now have to trustworthy actors. Filming went really well, I managed to get all the filming at Beverley train station and on the train it self completed in this first day of shooting. It was difficult to get the necessary shots in the train station because of people rushing around to catch trains, however we overcame this and managed to get it all done without no major problems. In terms of moving the equipment around there was a little difficulty as I had to keep changing sides of the platforms to get the required shots for my video. Luckily the weather was good for my first day of filming. I also had some issues with the framing and the camera, as it was scheduled I had to film a moving train this proved quite difficult because I had to get the footage with chance because of waiting times in between trains. Therefore when I filmed the train I had to do it hand held, when I watched the footage back it was quite shaky and unsteady however I am hoping to stabilize the footage on the editing programme, so overall my first day of filming went well.

Filming Day 2

19/02/2015

Hull Train/Bus Station and Hull Arcade

My second day of filming proved to be more difficult than my first day of 

filming, because it was the day I got the majority of the filming done with both my actors Zoe and Dan. The day started out not so great because of weather difficulties as it was raining for the majority of the day, luckily for me I was filming inside. The was no problem organizing to meet up as I was filming in town so everyone was able to travel there without much expense, as I am luck enough to drive and Zoe and Dan both got the bus we met at Hull train/us station where we began filming. The first issue we encountered was filming near the railway tracks, this proved difficult as we was warned by a police officer not to get too close to the edge, which was needed for my video, however we was careful and worked around it. In term of carrying the equipment around to each location this was no problem as I was able to drive us all to each location. In the arcade this was the most difficult to shoot as people where constantly walking through it and it was hard to get a shot with no one in the background, also with the glass shop windows it was hard not to get equipment and reflections of myself in the shot. We also we’re told to clean up any mess we made with the bunch of roses, however this was no problem,  even though I faced several problem I managed to overcome them all and get all the footage needed.

Filming Day 3

24/02/2015

Built up housing estate

For my third day of shooting I once again had trouble with the weather, however the rain somehow gave an effect to the footage in which I liked to I carried on filming. For this day I had to have my actors walking down a main road, this was a task, as we had to be careful with traffic and moving the equipment about carefully so that it did not get damaged when we had to move it out the way of the cars. Another shot I had to take was the smashing of the glass bottle, we had to find a derelict wall where the smashed glass would be at no risk to anyone, once we had found an appropriate please I had to get the shot which was only a one chance shot, with the help of actors and practicing the shot before I managed to get the shot with no problem, once again this was a successful day of shooting.

Here is a video of myself on the actual third day of shooting, I believed this was the final day of shooting at the time but due to some footage that I wanted to reshoot I had another fourth day of filming. 

Filming Day 4

26/02/2015

Built up housing estate

As I mentioned in my third day of filming I thought all my footage was successful, however when I looked back at some of the footage I wanted to reshoot to get better angles and I decided I wanted to reshoot the lip syncing part of my video. This time round the weather was more appropriate for filming and I managed to get some shots of the sky to use as an overlap on one of my shots. There was no difficulties for this day of shooting the only slight problem I encountered was the glare of the sun, however it creates a nice effect on the camera so for my final day of shooting it was successful and no more footage is needed.