Shooting Diaries

The location for our video is a small village that is about a 20 minute drive from college. Fortunately I was able to drive us, the equipment and the cast of the video to the location which is easily accessed. However

, because we were filming in a popular spot for members of the public to walk their dogs we were, on both days, often having to pause filming for people to pass by so that they didn't get in our footage.

I gained good experience setting up the camera to get the shots we wanted as well as being in control and using the camera.

Due to high demand, we have to book our camera and equipment with

at least 48 hours notice and could book for a maximum of two days. Return times and pick up times were strict and had to kept on schedule so that we did not impact any other student's work.

March 16th 2011

Firstly, we shot the footage of our main character on her own. As our video was going to consist of two different narratives running alongside each other, we decided we were going to film each sets of footage on separate days this was mainly because of fluency issues - for example we could not have different weather for the same part of the narrative and we could not predict the tide and therefore the depth of the river would have varied and been noticeably different.

Unfortunately, the weather was quite bad on this day and the wind was very strong which made it cold for ourselves and our actress. Although it is windy in our footage, we made the best of the situation and continued to film and got about 15 minutes worth of footage.

March 23rd 2011

One week later from the first shoot, we decided to film the second narrative for the video. This involved another character - a male - as well as the original female character that is involved in the other narrative.

This shoot was a lot easier and comfortable as the weather was a lot nicer on this day compared to the previous last week.

We took a variety of shots, including some of the scenery. Both of our actors did really well and with our direction made some brilliant shots.