Skills audit: Filming

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During our filming process we spent 2 days filming.

For both days of filming we brought our storyboard along with us. This aloud us to follow what we had planned and reminded us what we wanted to do. Aswell as this, being in the setting also aloud us to realise other shots we could include.

We spent one day (saturday) up Highgate woods. We found it difficult filming in the woods as we were only filming the setting and not an action therefore deciding the shot angles etc was a struggle. However we filmed Tracking shots, Panning shots, High angle shots, Low angle shots, Establishing shots. When filming we just experimented with these types of shots and all took turns with the camera, to see if each of us could make these shots work in different ways.

Our second day of filming was the following tuesday at London Bridge. In order to film in the station we had to get a permission pass from the station offices. Once we started filming there was a lot of people around. In order to ensure that our shots were not disturbed by the people around us we filmed each shot a number of times. When filming the "tunnel shots" the area was a lot less busy therefore only had to take around 3 takes of each shot. However because of this we decided that we had extra time therefore filmed the shots in a number of different angles to give us a wider choice when editing. The bridge shots were most difficult as this road was very busy one minute, and the next minute only had a couple of people on it. This meant that when we were filming a tracking shot, people would walk in front of the camera or people who were vising the area would wave thinking we were famous.

On both days of filming we had to film a 2minute sound shot of each setting we used. This was so that if we wanted to use natural sound in our final piece it would match up.

Overall i enjoyed our filming experience. It was hard work but our whole group was very pleased with the shots we ended up with.