Account of shooting day 1

plan: We planned to film the main body of our opening sequence on that day. This took place at our chosen location at the end of Edgewarebury lane and scheduled to start when it was dark outside. This involved having our two actors who were in full costume (suits) and bringing all the necessary equipment we needed to the set.

My role: My job was co-directing with one of my fellow group members. One member of our group was acting so it was Jack and myself job to film all the different angles and shots that we needed to get.

How did it go?: We arrived at the location and me and Jack set up the cameras while Jared who is also in our group who was acting briefed our other actor on what exactly he had to do. once we were all set up we began filming, we started with shots of the car driving past at high speed along with shots from behind the car. Without really knowing exactly what a good shot was me and jack were satisfied with the filming so far. After we finished filming all off the shots of the car 'arriving' at the location it was time to film the main action part. We set up the camera on the left side of the car to show a wide shot of the father and Son looking serious and getting out of the car simultaneously. But we quickly realised when re-watching the footage directly after that the lighting was too dark. We did not get outdoor lighting and at night with very bad street lighting it was just too dark and not what we wanted. We decided straight away that we couldn't continue filming as it was just not worth it and we would have to come back with outdoor lighting and re-shoot the whole thing.

Review: I look back at that first attempt and cant help feel very frustrated as we had spent a lot of time setting up the camera and filming for well over an hour to end up with no real footage we can use. With hindsight we should have realised how dark the road was gonna be and that outdoor lighting was essential to our success. We could have avoided this mistake by visiting the location at night time before we filmed, as shown in our one shot run through video it was done in the day so we couldn't really grasp how the location was going to be lit in terms of the streetlights. But there were many positives we got out from it, we were able to practise setting up the camera, find the good positions to film at our location and it just added to the ideas of how to make it better. This was all set up to make are second re-shoot a lot more successful with the help of the failures of the first.