Filming: Day 1

I started filming today and we took off by attempting to co-ordinate with the weather to film the opening scene of the film were as the camera woman (nor) we follow a leafy trail towards the cemetery. As mentioned before we chose to film out in the open any space would have worked as long it was path like and either covered in leaves or in our terms we had to cover a path with leaves. We used a path we found near the park. It wasn’t surrounded with many spectators and it was a great representation of the kind of path I was going for. It was short but wide and the leaves created the right atmosphere as the scene was quite peaceful from the hush of the spot.

 When we finished filming the opening scene we decided to take advantage of the fact that we were right by a church and use it as an opportunity to record a church bell ringing if they had one. As lucky as we ever are, we were in luck as they had a bell and were ‘’more than happy to assist such aspiring good students to make use of any useful utilities the church could offer’’. We had fun with it and tried recording it at different lengths at varying paces to expand our bandwidth of sounds to choose from later on when the sound meets the video overlay.  After many tries to record it without external interference and finally meeting success we packed up our equipment for lunch and made a group rendezvous for celebratory Starbucks at a good start to our filming.

When we were sated enough we decided to go to the next location of filming which was the park. As I couldn’t find an accommodating cemetery gate to which I could consider representing what I wanted I stumbled upon this gate on my way home once upon a time. It is the gate to Durant’s park in Ponders End, Enfiled. To film here played difficulty due to the many passer byers and constant interference from people entering or leaving the park through the gate which had to be clear and shut. To cater for this we stationed ourselves at a fast food restaurant across the street from the location and waited for an opening. As the day began to settle it seemed less and less people were out so we chose this time before we lost the advantage of the natural light to film out second scene. The background sounds were not a cause of concern and the filming was simple camera work enough so the process did not take up too much time to prefect to my liking.   

When we finished there we felt that as it was only the first day we could stop at just two shots and planned to film more the next day. Hence, everyone made their way home AND SHOOTING WAS DONE FOR THE DAY!