Filming

On Saturday Charley and I filmed our opening sequence and it took a lot longer then we thought. We planned on filming last week but I had trouble getting to Charley's house because of the snow and icy roads, Charley went along and filmed the outside scenes without me even though i was the one who was meant to be filming. We had to improvise because the two boys we were meant to use let us down last minute and so Charley had to use her brother and his friend. They manage to film most of the outside scenes without me, but was hard because of the snow. A few days later we were able to film the whole thing but again had to change the two actors because her brother and his friend were busy doing something else. We managed to find another two actors and we were able to film. Filming took about 2-3 hours this was a lot longer than we anticipated because we had to film from every angle and make sure we got the whole scene in the camera shot. We had to film the very first part about 3 or 4 times because one of the actors kept moving out of the shot. The other scene that took the longest was the gate scene because one of the boys had to climb over the top to unlock the door and let the other guy in, we had to film this from the centre, left, right, above, below etc just to get the right shot and cut it so our film flows. We changed a few lines of the script while we were filming because things fitted better with the film, the scene that most changed was the inside scene of the guys looking through all the owners DVD's because we had to get the right words to fit what the actors were doing. Filming our opening sequence was a lot more work then we thought because of how much footage you have to film to get the right shot and angle for the film to work. We've got about 25 minutes of filming with lots of mistakes that we need to cut out. I enjoyed filming because it taught me a lot about how much work goes into film that are 1 hours and longer, in the future i think we will plan a lot more in depth e.g. the camera angles and just going to the house and playing around with the camera to see what shot fits best this would of saved a lot of time but we will know this for next time.