Filming

When it came to filming on the Tuesday we started at about 2.15, this meant that by the time we collected our cameras, walked to the graveyard location and set up the equipment, it was already about 3.30pm. This meant that we had to get on with the filming swiftly as we needed to film in the light due to the fact that if it was too dark we wouldn't be able to use the footage, where as if it was too light we could always dull it down later during the editing process. However, because we already had our storyboard in place, we had a good idea of the shots we needed and where our actors needed to be standing,etc. After giving a quick briefing to the actors we began filming. Each shot we took about 2 or 3 times and we also recorded the shot from different angles in certain shots. Although only half way through our storyboard sequence, the light was growing dark and we soon realised that it was too dark to film and so we decided to continue filming the following day.
On Wednesday, we started filming at about 1pm. Because we was familiar with our surroundings and the equipment, etc, we was able to begin filming and pick up from where we left it previously. I found that this day's process of filming was generally a lot quicker and we even filmed more,different shots than we initially had even thought of. After filming for about 3 hours we decided that we had plenty of graveyard footage which would allow us to be able to experiment with a range of different shots.
On the Thursday, it was our time slot to film in the t.v studio. We begun at about 11.30, however we didn't start filming until about 12.30 as we needed to set up the studio, prepare the smoke machine and the t.v in the corner of the room as well as doing the actors screen make up. Because we was filming Chanelle as the 'dead girl' it meant that we needed to apply a lot of make-up and hair spray,etc to create the effect - this therefore was time consuming which ate int our filming time. A problem that we faced during the set-up was that we couldn't seem to get the t.v working, as we couldn't plug the video-recorder into the t.v so that the video footage would play on the screen. This meant that we had to alter our idea by changing it to having a 'fuzzy' t.v screen.
When we eventually begun filming, we was able to film various shots from many different angles. This didn't take much time due to the fact that we now had a good experience with the cameras, as well as the fact that we simply didn't have a lot of footage to film in the first place. However, despite this fact, we did run out of time and so we had to run into our lunch time filming, although this wasn't a problem as our actors co-operated and it only took us about a further 10 -15 minutes.
Overall, i feel that our filming ran fairly smoothly, despite having to film in the graveyard both on Tuesday and Wednesday and running into our lunch time on the Thursday; However i am generally pleased as we never had to use the following week as filming time, which would have really out the pressure on us as that would be the very last chance to film.

Becky.