Monday, 12 December 2011

FILMING FEEDBACK - PREPRODUCTION PLANNING

The first day we filmed was really quite hard because of several reasons:

-When we actually got on the train we realised that the interior was much smaller than we were antisipating when we were planning our shots
-It was impossible to use a tripod to film most of our shots as there was simply not enough room
-Although we tried to film out of rush hour there was still a lot more people on the train than we had expected
-Even though we emailed the train man again making the length of the journey longer we still simply didn't have enough time on the train
-We realised on the day that some of the dialogue in our film had not been scripted and so the characters had to improvise.
All of these factors made some of the shots we wanted impossible.







Some of the things that went well however:
-We didn't have any trouble with the train workers at all and we were allowed to travel on the train freely -We got pretty much got every shot we wanted within the time frame
- The fact that we were filming on a train meant that the slightly jolty footage due to the lack of tripod looked quite suitable
-We were really happy that we thought about and remembered to bring the voice recorder because now we have ambient sound and can delete the original sounds which were quite noisy.
- The weather was nice and sunny so, as we werent using any lighting, this was extremely important, it also allowed us to film with ease and with less stress over the safety of the equipment.
- The second day we filmed was good because we got all the shots we wanted easily without any unforseen implications.

We plan on going back to get a couple more shots that we need which fortunately dont involve the characters and only the platform and not being on a train.
However a concern we have is for the weather and the lighting to be the same as when we filmed the first time. So we checked the weather forcast on the day we planned on filming.

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