Filming Issues

One of the first problems that came across in this project is the second day that we had planned to film. A time and place had been organised, but our main actor did not turn up to the filming session and so we were not able to carry on with the planned day. This meant that eventually we lost the chance to film in the restaurant that our producer had procured for us, in turn meaning that we were rather rushed in the process of filming when we were able to get the actors back in. A few locations were looked at before we were given permission to film in a nearby pub. While this was a completely different location from the original plan of a coffee shop, it ended up working fairly well as we were able to change the script in a way that made the location make sense. We also faced an issue when it came to the sound equipment that we had planned to use to record dialogue, as the sound did not seem particularly clear when recording through it. After having changed the equipment we were using, but the same problem still occurring, we decided to use the camera sound instead for the film. This turned out to be quite a problem in editing as certain clips were completely unusable due to the fact that we could not hear the actors speak, or there was too much background noise that would have been heavily distracting. Another issue that was faced was lighting; though the cinematographer found the footage to be fine when recording, as the preview footage came out clearly, it turned out that it was not entirely clear when it came to editing, some of the shots being far too dark to use. These various problems that we came across are ones that were hard to amend in post-production, and so time will have to be taken in the future to either re-shoot scenes or redo the audio for certain pieces of footage.