Our first day of filming was substantially better than our
filming experience with our previous project. I believe that it went very well
and both my partner and I were pleased with the outcome. We were able to film
everything we had planned within a couple hours. However, due to an unfortunate
event that had occurred only a couple days before our scheduled filming we had
to adapt to the situation by changing our original plan. Our arrangement prior
to the incident was to have bikes in our video, this idea was short lived due
to the fact that not one bike was stolen but two!!! This left the both of us
struggling to come up with a new idea in such a limited amount of time as we
had to start filming as soon as possible. We decided to use roller blades for
our main character however this did make some parts of our filming quite tricky
as we were trying to incorporate some tracking shots of our actors on their
bikes but it was quite hard for my partner and I to film alongside them. My
partner did try clinging onto one of our actors bikes on his roller blades
whilst filming the other bike.
We did plan this in advance however we thought it was going
to be a lot easier than it was. After a few attempts my partner did get it just
right and got us pretty good footage that was exactly what we needed.
Although we checked the weather before we filmed we weren’t
really prepared for the on and off rain and hail stone throughout the day. This
annoyingly kept changing the lighting while we were in the park and we knew
this would make editing quite difficult for us from then. We did continue to
film and decided keep all the footage and use most of it especially the parts
that looked the same.
Filming the match on action sections wasn't hard at all as we
were able to use a tripod the majority of the time. Overall I believe the day went
amazingly well as we were able to film quite a lot with hardly any problems.
