Shooting Journal

During Post Production and Production we many encountered problems.

Production

As stated previously we filmed using to locations London and Windsor so we decided to film on each location on different days. At the London location, we encountered many problems due to the sheer amount of people present during the day. This made it extremely hard to shoot our film as people kept appearing in our shots, this was of course a bigger problem for us in the frame of our wide establishing shots delaying the time we intended to end shooting (making the process of film making slower). The protagonist simply could not be seen in the crowd. To overcome this we had to complete our other shots first and then try and shoot, fortunately changing the time solved this, as it became less crowded later on in the day. Another problem we experienced whist shooting was the weather. It was REALLY COLD. The other group members and the actors were finding it difficult to maintain focus and we were annoyed at the delay it was taking to shoot all our shots. The cold weather also impacted on our work and we later felt we rushed through some aspects of our film and later this was made apparent to us during Post Production. At the Windsor location, we encountered problems with the tracking shot outside the house because it was difficult to track steadily, affecting the quality. This was a minor problem and everything else went smoothly. We planned the time better for this location in terms of meeting together and preparing for the scenes e.g props. So we finished filming on time with a pleasing outcome.