Our Shoot Day

Our shoot day was on 23rd February on the Wednesday of our half term. On the day, I was the director, and Antonia Formosa was the camera woman. In order for it to be a successful day we needed to make sure that we were completely organized, and that all of our preparation in the pre-production stage was completed. This would mean that we would have a planed schedule that we could use, and also story boards that we could use as a structure to the piece.

We decided to arrange to meet near the first location for our shoot at 8.30 in the morning, which would give us time to organize our self's and prepare the equipment for the day. We started shooting our first scene at 9.00, which was our scene in the bedroom. For this location we used one of our crew’s bedrooms. This scene went reasonable well, as we had all of the scene story boarded and scripted, so we knew exactly what we wanted to achieve, and exactly how to do it.

By the time we had finished this scene, we were already we ahead of our schedule, and instead of going to the location we had originally planned for our next scene, which was meant to be in Hyde park, we found a bench in the gardens of the location for our first scene, and so decided to shoot our next scene there instead. Again, this made the process much faster, and much like in the first scene, we had a storyboard for the scene set and so we just had to follow the plan, and film the shots. This ran very smoothly, and we had almost finished this scene by 11 o'clock.

This meant that we had completed the corridor scene, the bedroom scene and also the park scene, and we were already 3 hours ahead of our schedule, meaning that we had extra time to film some additional footage, which is when we decided to do the scene on the street, where the couple meet, which would end up being another one of our flashbacks.

For this scene, we encountered a few problems during the filming process. The first of these was that because of all of the ambient noises such as cars and people, it made it incredibly hard for the camera to pick up the dialogue of the characters. We also struggled to find a space of time when either a car wasn’t passing, or a pedestrian wasn’t passing, interfering with the shots. However, we had finished the filming by 1.30, meaning that we had completed the filming process 4 hours early.

Overall the day was a large success, and I feel this is primarily down to the level of organisation that the group had out in to making the day run smoothly.