Planning: Filming - Even Better If

Filming:

Even Better If...

I believe that many things could have gone much smoother if certain things were different.

1. Multiple cameras

Although we were only given one camera from the college, which is perfectly fine for many, it would have been a lot more convenient if one of us had an extra camera that we could have used for multiple different angles. Especially as we used water in our filming, so many things could often be done once or not a lot of times so the actors didn't get too cold or wet. Using two or more angles would have saved a lot of time and also gave reassurance that we have the right angle without actually making them stay in the water for too long or redo.

2. Our own actors

I have mentioned before in a previous blog that I think it would have been much more responsible to use the people in our group to be the performers as we are more committed to the project and therefore more reliable. As we used other people, and although I think that they did a good job, I feel like we were more restricted on time as they had other commitments. If we used our own actors we would have been free to film whatever we want, whenever we wanted as we had to be there to film anyway. We wouldn't have to worry too much about if we had to reshoot things on different days as we would all be there.

3. Time of shooting

We had originally planned to film really early around 8/8:30 however this turned out to be near impossible so we reached our location at 12/1. This meant that more people and animals were around and we had to be careful not to get other people in shot and make sure the animals did not run into the shot, as they ran around us and into the water several times. It would have been better if we filmed early as the sun wouldn't have been as bright and less people would have been around, meaning that we would have been more free to film more of the park.