Filming Diary (Narrative - 16th Nov)

We began filming with good lighting and with the sky clear but about half an hour later the lighting was terrible and it started to rain. We decided, despite having all the equipment and actors, that is was not worth continuing as the footage would be poor quality. Another minor setback we faced was that our previous narrative actor, Joe, decided he no longer wanted to be part of our project. This was incredibly frustrating as all of our previous footage was now useless and we needed to acquire a camera from somewhere else. We decided that both of us would step in and act in our video meaning that we will need to be clever when filming sections where both of us are in the shot. Luckily, we are building up to a confrontation rather than acting it out which means that we only need a couple of shots that should be fairly simple to film. We will re-shoot on Sunday 19th November where the weather is likely to be much better. The images below demonstrate the issues that we had and the one at the bottom is a screenshot from some footage that we filmed on the day. The actor cannot easily be viewed, rain on the lens and the camera itself became an issue and the entire location looked completely different to when we first arrived.