Preliminary Task - Filming

During the Preliminary Task, many set-backs and problems occrued throughout. Some of these issues included actress' pulling out due to a clash of dates, illness or because they just didn't have the time to do so. Even when it came to filming, one actress pulled out and a replacement had to be quickly found. Another problem such as location also denied us the chance to film our production which in turn,s et the filming date back further than expected.

Our roles when filming were as follows;

• Myself, Ryan Denney, as the camera man
• Alexander Mulley as the editor and producer
• Beatrice Brown as the director

As a whole, I feel the filming when very well. Although only a few minor set backs occured, which will be explained in this post shortly, I feel as though filming ran quite smoothly. Within our roles, each of us in my opinion filled their purpose nicely. Beatrice directed the actresses well to make them perform how she had planned to fit the storyboard. Alexander aided me when it came to the conversation in which both cameras needed to be operated. I was directed by Beatrice on what the camera shot and angle should be looking like and used my media skills to get the shots the directed needed. Also, when it came to filming, all three of us helped in deciding how the next shot should be formed to follow the storyboard and shot list, with director's concent of course. Another positive from filming would be that we moved through the shots quickly so that we didn't go over the time we had asked from the library. Only a few shots I asked to be taken again as I wasn't happy with the way that it was portrayed and filmed, this meant that shots could be filmed quickly and effieicently leaving us with time to spare to pack away and leave the library before closing time.
The set backs that did persist during filming was the public getting in the way and not wanting to move. Due to the fact we can't film the front of people's faces meant that we had to change some of the shots because of the library being quite busy at peak times. Although there were many people, we managed to do our best and improvise on how we would film the sequence without getting the public's faces in the shots. Another problem that occured was the background noises of people talking (despite being in a library). To combat this, we filmed the dialogue when there was little or no background noises to minimise any disturbances in the audio. One other problem was that the supervisor of the library kept trying us to stay away from people in the library. This was hard to avoid since the library did start to fill up rapidly because it was a Saturday morning. We did our best to film away from people in the library but it did appear to become quite hard. To evade being told to move on due to disturbing users of the library, we decided to film the squences quickly so that we could film the upstairs part during the peak time. The last problem that occured was the actress' learning their lines on the day. It took them a while to get to grips with the concept of the story but once they got into characters and had practised a bit, the acting was fairly good since they hadn't had any acting classes before.

As a whole, I think that filming went very well since we stuck to our roles, helped each other when needed, filmed quickly and effieciently whilst getting the shots we needed and communicated well within the team.