Test Shoot Thoughts

Our group decided to split the test shoot up over 2 days, Sunday and Monday from 3:00 till about 7:30. Although it didn't go completely as planned seeing and experiencing the location through the eyes of our camera did help us massively in progressing with our film opening.

Sunday started off well with us testing out the lighting in the area which worked really well and created a beautiful location for our film. As we were shooting in the dark we thought there might be problems and planned to do Sunday in the darkand monday in the light if I didn't go well. However, at the location there are lights on the wall which light the area up just enough to make our shots visable and that coupled with our light makes it a perfect location.

After checking everything out we decided to shoot shots from multiple angles and heights of the villians escape route which turned out very well. I did the filming on Sunday, Simon was in charge of the lights for a large portion of the night, Nick started off acting and daniel was in charge of the paper work (storyboard, shooting script, and shot log). After a while Simon and Nick swapped roles. The villains escape route worked very well as the location allows us to get a massive variety of shots which we can then cut between to make the scene more interesting.

Just as we were finishing on sunday and while we were shooting the villain going through the gate a security guard informed us that we were on private property and so we took a phone number of the manager to call and ask if it was ok to shoot at a later date. We realised that we had stepped out of the car park and in to a loading bay and therefore assumed that it was only through the gate we were not allowed to go and so returned on Monday.

Monday was a short day of filming as we entered our location set up our equipment and were then approached by 2 more security guards. They told us that we were only allowed to shoot inside the car park when infact our location was just outside it, we took the same phone number of the manager again and left. Instead of wasting the day we went back to Nick's house and started to develop our ideas even further and started an annotated, detailed storyboard which allowed us to think about how the whole scene apart from the ending would play out.

By Matt