first day of filming

on Wednesday 24th September we did our first day of filming. to do this we went to a park near college and filmed a lot of the relationship narrative.
our day o filming went quite well as we got a lot of it done and worked well as a team.
we all knew what we were doing and we didn't face any problems. we managed to film every thing we had planned to at the park, but with a few changes. for example, one of the scenes was meant to be of the boyfriend and girlfriend on a roundabout together. however there was not a roundabout in this particular park so instead we used a climbing frame.

this is what we managed to get done on our first filming day:
-boyfriend and girlfriend on the swing
- boyfriend and girlfriend on the spinning post
- boyfriend and girlfriend having a picnic
- boyfriend and girlfriend playing frisbee
- boyfriend and girlfriend walking together, hand in hand
- boyfriend watching over himself and his girlfriend in the past, singing

the main problem we had to face was the weather! unfortunately we had some rain whilst we were filming so we had to work hard as a team to get all the required footage, adn keep the camera dry! luckily, the rain wasnt too bad and towards the end it dried up a bit so we were still able to film what we needed.

the other issue we had was time. As we are using an actor who is not part of our group we had to take into consideration his timetbale as well as our own, and therefore we had to be back in college in time for his lesson. therefore the time we had to film was very limited, but as we were prepared for this we worked quickly and efficienty and got everything done.

our first day of filming was very successful! :)

We decided to just film the boy and girl 1 playing in the park, trying to capture as many natural looking expressions and actions as possible. After a while this became easier and they started looking more like a couple, I feel that we got some good footage from this shoot but it was a waste of some time because it took so long to get started. We then shot the picnic scene in the field. This shot took a while to set up as it involved a pan from the boy with the girl on the picnic blanket, to the boy watching his memories leaning against a tree. We shot this several times to ensure that on editing it looks good. We had some difficulties with this. The main being the traffic in the background, it kept moving and we would not be able to put each shot together if the traffic was different. Other problems that we had here was that Waq did not know the words to the start of the song, so it proved hard to voice sync. Overall our first day of filming went well, we got some useful footage, but we still had a lot left we needed to shoot. We ran out of time to film any of the car stuff on this day as we had to be back for lessons.-Britt