Filming (reflection):

As expected, filming didn't go quite to plan on our first attempt. We managed to film every shot that were meant to be included in our piece within 2 hours, starting 6am on a sunday morning till 8am. However one extreme close-up shot of the male characters eyes was missed out. The schedule started with the car shots (working backwards due to sunrise), then the dialogue was filmed second, then once the sun was getting brighter the running sequence was filmed. Roisin and I shared roles of camerawork and directing fairly equally. However, as predicted, after the footage was uploaded onto the school macs, some of the shots were too dark. On reflection, too much time was spent directing our actors instead of getting our footage shot, because the sun was rising quickly meaning that some shots would be too light. We also started too early, because the first shot of the car pulling up etc was far too dark and in contrast the dialogue shots were much lighter. This made our piece have bad continuity. On the other hand, the shots of the dialogue and the running sequence was really good and didn't need to be re-shot at all.

So just under a week later, I managed to film some more footage of the shots including the car driving into the car park. The shot of the extreme close-up of the male characters eye was successful but the light was fading quick, so to avoid filming for the third time I decided to film the 3 shots of the car as soon as possible. This included the car pulling up and driving past the camera, the car stopping infront of the camera and the male character getting out of the car (in that order) being filmed almost continuously so that different sunset stages were captured. However, there were other continuity issues after playing back the footage the next day at school. Unfortunetly there were other cars in the background and the male character wasn't wearing the same coat, so another filming session was organised.

A couple of days later, Roisin and I set out to record all three shots again. We both made sure that there would be no continuity issues by asking politely for other people to move their vechicles away from where the camera was placed and capturing our footage. We also made sure that the male character was wearing exactly the same outfit. The footage was much better and, again, the shots were recorded almost continously to insure the right amount of light was captured. After reviewing the first and third day of filming, Roisin and I are very pleased with what we have accomplished.