First day of filming - Wednesday 28th January - 42/43

Filming for Beginners

In todays lesson we have  decided to split into pairs with Ahsan and Mel filming, despite the weather, and myself and China updating our blog and time toast. This enabled things to go quicker and we would have more time to spend on the filming even though we would of wanted the whole group to go out filming it was worth it. Today Ahsan and Mel will be focusing on filming the estate which is the first setting that is introduced within the opening sequence. The location of this setting is 'silver street'. We have chosen this location because it represents a popular area where young people in the community share similar interests as to our storyline.

We decided to only film the scenery to get our film started. It was a hassle at first trying to get the right shots and right angles but the many shots we took the more choice we had to decide which one is the best one. We weren't really because of the weather but it started brightening up therefore we became motivated and got some work done. We took several establishing shots of tunnels and pathways and estates. We chose establishing shot so that the audience would be aware of the setting and location. We wanted to make sure it was clear and a good angle. Ahsan and myself took turns in the filming process in taking shots so both of them had a feel of what it was like to film we already call ourselves pro-filmers.
It was also nice to see people of the public wanting to be in our footage as much as we love them we couldn't put them all. Me and Ahsan really started to get the hang of it and explored the different angles that we knew. The filming lasted for about 2 hours and it was starting to get really cold so we called it a day and we were really proud of our shots when we reviewed them. I guess what we weren't happy about was when the sun shined brightly out of nowhere therefore making the brightness of the footage too bright as oppose to the quite dull, dark light we kind of wanted for our film. I'm sure we can fix this through the editing.