On the first day of filming, just after we had the basic idea of the storyline and where we should film, we headed to New Malden train station, getting there we realised that the camera had ran out of batteries which meant we had wasted quite a big chunk of our time. Instead of filming on a camera that wouldn't switch on, we took a few stills of the location where we would be filming, these turned out to be useful as we knew the location more than we did before hand and had a better understanding of where we should be filming to keep in with the 180 degree rule. Coming back the next day we had a vague understanding on what we should be filming, we started off with a few new ideas like incorporating props, such as Space Raiders crisps which later turned out to hinder our editing as random packets of crisps would turn up in shot after we had scraped the idea. Filming on 3 different days turned out to be a real challenge as we had to rely on everyone in shot to be in the same clothing, the weather to be consistent and for passers by not to stand in shot. We did have to come back and re-shoot some things as we thought that we could improve on them and what we had already was lacking depth. Reshooting turned out to help us dramatically as we knew what had worked before and what hadn't.
We had learnt a lot from filming during this preliminary task, many things were just petty like keeping in touch with the 180 degrees rule and wearing the same clothing if you film on two different days. Although, what we think we learnt the most was the importance of having a good quality storyboard before going out to film.
Zaq, David and Joe.
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