Janruary 17, sunday
After having problems with the weather, we managed to book out an HD camera to start our filming. Due to this we were unable to film on the organised dates we origionaly selected, so when finding a dew date all members of the group and our actress could make was a difficulty because of other responsibilities. In the end it worked out as last minute work cancellations allowed us to all work together as a group. We met at my house as we planned as a base station as it's nearest to our location, the Jordan's woods is just up the road so if props were forgotten or weather turned for the worst, we had somewhere inside to go.
When setting up at 10:00 sunday morning, we realised the camera had no battery, so our scedual was delayed while we charged it up. This was a problem because we needed the morning sunlight to shoot for the right effect. To resolve the problem i used the time to find appropriate props we'd need to take out. we discovered that the red shoe we needed to use didn't fit the actress to we re-thaught out how we would make it look effective. Then i did Jordans make-up to shoot the first shot which is the only scene inside.
Lighting was our main problem when trying to create a party atmosphere, and trying to capture the morning light but the shadows of the tree's in the wood was distracting. due to our limited amount of time to film, we shot our flashbacks in the same light, even though we had planned to shoot them in darker light to keep the continuity of night before morning, but we decided we would use the effects control to edit the flash backs so they appear different later in the process.
After having problems with the weather, we managed to book out an HD camera to start our filming. Due to this we were unable to film on the organised dates we origionaly selected, so when finding a dew date all members of the group and our actress could make was a difficulty because of other responsibilities. In the end it worked out as last minute work cancellations allowed us to all work together as a group. We met at my house as we planned as a base station as it's nearest to our location, the Jordan's woods is just up the road so if props were forgotten or weather turned for the worst, we had somewhere inside to go.
When setting up at 10:00 sunday morning, we realised the camera had no battery, so our scedual was delayed while we charged it up. This was a problem because we needed the morning sunlight to shoot for the right effect. To resolve the problem i used the time to find appropriate props we'd need to take out. we discovered that the red shoe we needed to use didn't fit the actress to we re-thaught out how we would make it look effective. Then i did Jordans make-up to shoot the first shot which is the only scene inside.
Lighting was our main problem when trying to create a party atmosphere, and trying to capture the morning light but the shadows of the tree's in the wood was distracting. due to our limited amount of time to film, we shot our flashbacks in the same light, even though we had planned to shoot them in darker light to keep the continuity of night before morning, but we decided we would use the effects control to edit the flash backs so they appear different later in the process.
Overall we managed to shoot all the scenes we needed our actress in, but there's a posiblity we may need to shoot again if they arent good enough quality. We divided and swapped responsibilies between direction the actress, controlling the camera and re-shooting the scenes to achieve smooth panning. We repeated filming the same shot several times to account for mistakes, jumping movements, sound distractions and to make sure we achieve the right angle we had planned. The weather was cold and although the members of our team, Lewis, Stuart and myself were wrapped up prepared to film, Jordan was damp and getting colder because of the short party dress costume, so we had to postpone the rest of our filming to a later date. This could disrupt our continuity as slight difference in light and the tree's may change, so to attempt to prevent this, we have organised to film the remaining shots on monday 25th Jan. 
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