We arrived at the venue of the character Ashley's house and discussed where we would begin our filming. We had our props ready and prepared for filming. It was now time to decide where we should begin filming.
Due to the fact that our filming was to be done in the daylight, we thought it best to film our park scenes first of all. We took a considerably long journey to Forster Park and to our luck the swings were available with happy children playing in the background. Perfect.
We set up our tripod and referred to our storyboard to begin our filming. We planned our shots and gave our cast the screenplay to learn their few lines. Filming began, the sunlight was perfect although we soon became freezing cold. As we shivered through the scene, we managed to get to grips with the camera and experiment with different shots and zooms.
Becoming more familiar with the camera was especially helpful as Coretta was able to grab an excellent zoom shot of the pregnancy test displaying the Positive icon. We also managed to film a little bit of Jermaine (Toba) running after Alicia. The battery was running low and so we began with our running shots. This required the most concentration as we wanted to have numerous angles and lengths. Unfortunately we only managed to gilm a shot of which Alicia (Juliet) filmed her feet as she ran. We did not manage to see the success/failure of this idea as the battery soon died.
We left the park to Ashley (Olu)'s house proud of filming but disappointed that we did not manage to get as much done as possible. Thankfully, this allowed us to come up with the following aims for our next filming session:
1)Switch the camera off when not filming
2)Bring gloves to set to avoid frostbite
3)Film quickly and effectively
4)Continue to work well as a team
Own Comment: As this was our first filming session, I have to say we did well (shockingly), however after the session Lydia did an evaluation and came up with some aims (as shown above) inorder for us to overcome mistakes, obtactles and challenges we experienced etc in our next filming session.
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