Filming Process

Today we have almost finished filming all of our footage so we can go into the editing suite in the week coming.

We started to film on tuesday. We set up in the meeting room and made it look like an office. We took things from the room and our teachers office to create the office atmosphere. We took a couple of shot but then we were told that it was quite dark. If our footage was too dark once we go into the edit suite our footage wouldn't look so good. We turned the lights on brighter and re shot most of what we had done, this only took an extra 10 minutes as we were sure of all the shots we needed. 

On Wednesday I went by myself down to South bank to film the London Eye. We decided tat for our titles we would film the London Eye in the evening from when it is light till dark. This would then be sped up. I encountered some problems whilst doing this shoot. I was approached by Police officers who enquired on what I was doing. I think I may have jogged the camera slightly while showing the officers what I was doing (I had the screen closed to save battery). Fortunately they did not make me stop recording when they spoke to me. Overall I think it will be OK.

On Sunday we did our shoot on location on the South bank. The entire shoot took about 3 hours to complete. We started at about 1 and did the shots on the street, our character coming out of a building and following him down the street. We then moved down the street into the tunnel where we shot the encounter with someone when the USB stick is stolen. On location we decided to change our plan. We decided that we wouldn't probably have enough for a good 5 minute clip. Luckily, Flanna was with a friend and we used him to steal the USB stick. We then decided that this man would give the USB to Flanna's character at a different location. We felt that this would make our opening much more interesting.

When we had finished shooting we sat down to review our footage. Unfortunately we had recorded over 2 or 3 minutes of footage we had filmed on tuesday. This was disappointing but we had earlier decided that we would need to film some extra footage anyway, we need to give the audience a sense of what was on the USB stick.

Tomorrow we are going to film our extra shots during our lunch time and that should be all the footage we need.

If all goes well we can start our edit in Tuesday's lesson.