Problems when filming

Uh Oh we're in trouble...



We experienced a few major problems when we finally got to our filming stage, the first and largest problem was that our actor bailed on us...on the day...3 hours before we were meant to start filming and our back up guy was then unavailable. We were so stuck and obviously freaked out! Lara and Iwere frantically asking any boy and man that we knew that might be available that night to act for us! Luckily we found a guy, Ollie Lavis a friend from school who was able too ( life saver!!) Who ended up being perfect for the role, he took it very seriously and did well! Funnily he decided he wanted a friend to come for moral support Sam Flippance who eventually ended up being a part of our film!

 If things weren't going terribly at this stage we got to the church took a few test shots and the camera died. Thankfully Lara owns a new iPhone (which does have a high quality camera) so we ended up using her phone - which went smoothly and has come out really nicely. Neither of us had access to a tripod which in actually worked out better for us as we found a different style of filming, we shot it in a documentary style - following the characters which added a realistic touch and added to the intensity of there not being many spoken lines in the piece. However the battery life was awful so we did have a lot of stop, start, pause filming.

 As Ollie didn't have access to a script before hand we had to change it by minimising his lines, we gave him a few short simple sentences which he would repeat just before we started to film. Once we thought that all possible obstacles were over come we got to lesson to start our editing and the phone didn't connect to iMovie, it didn't recognise it as a valid device so we tried to find the IT technicians to see if they knew what to do but it appeared they were on their lunch break so we couldn't do it in the lesson but had to wait until we got home to do it on a private computer! And one small problem was that sam wasn't able to gain a costume in the time given so we tried to make him look as smart as possible however his socks had pink toes which stood out a lot - making it look less realistic.