Filming

Well we've finally moved forward and  have got started with the filming!  Up until this point I have felt like our group productivity has been a little bit lacking, particularly with the recent purchase of our graphic tablets. I have found through today's filming that despite having planned out everything through our storyboarding and script a lot of our shots were changed quite dramatically and didn't follow the storyboard much at all. This may have been the lack of collaboration between Edrian, Lucy and myself as it seems there were a number of different ideas that we all had regarding the filming which didn't really come up until we were actually filming. I know a lot of the storyboard is loose and is just a rough outline but without clear direction with what we are doing it can end up being discarded.

On that note however, there was still a good amount of filming done and we sorted out our intro scene and a few of the key dramatisations needed to help push our story along at the beginning. We did find ourselves distracted quite easily being in a more relaxed environment which I think we need to try and avoid in the next few days in order to churn out the rest of this film.

It seems like our group is working really well so far, and I have been enjoying working with everyone, I just think we need a little more direction at times from some of our tutors, from looking round and observing the way other groups were getting on, it seems a number of us are struggling a bit with concepts and just need reassurance when finalising those ideas instead of discarding them and starting over. On the other hand it is nice having Zoe around to talk to on a Monday and we have been utilizing her expertise in the industry in terms of planning out what we were going to do, she had lots of really useful information for us and gave us good direction with where to take our film.