Final Filming Update

Filming Update

We have finally finished! Only two and a half weeks late, we have finished (at last) our ending scenes, leaving us with a lot of footage to choose from for the long editing process that awaits us. As time passed and we got more of our filming done, I think we can all agree that each time the process was less stressful and more enjoyable as we knew what to expect. Now it is done, we are all very pleased because, looking back, we let filming become a slight burden due to the lack of motivation we suffered from which meant we were slow to organise things, unfortunately taking away from the overall enjoyment.

As time went on, and as you can hopefully see from our previous filming updates, each time went better and better for us, which took away from the pressure the time limit put us under. Luckily, we were very fortunate to have our time extended over the Christmas holidays which helped us massively as it gave us more time to film in the daylight without rushing. I think as a group, we were more hesitant than we should have been and worried about minor details which other groups did not; however now it is done we are mostly pleased with how it went, and hope to get the best possible grade we can.

Despite everything we had said before in our previous filming updates about needing to do more planning, we went into our final scenes with a considerable lack of planning. Usually, this would mean that filming would be a nightmare and there would be a lot of time wasted which added to our lack of excitement; however this time wasn’t too bad. We started by attempting to make Christie’s supposed bedroom more ‘girly’ in order to follow the stereotypes of teenage girls in the hope to make the plot easier to follow for the audience. We had talked about this before but not in much detail and so we ended up using anything remotely feminine we could find, such as clothes, make-up and pictures. After we had done this, we decided it would be best to start filming chronologically to make sure we didn’t miss anything out (a mistake we may have made whilst filming scene 2). In spite of this, we didn’t particularly want to go outside so we began to film chronologically, missing out Adam's entrance into the house.

Due to the many times we have had to re-film, we found that we now feel more experienced, and know what will work and what won’t without having to watch it over in the editing process only to find it is not good enough. Despite not really knowing what we were going to do, we filmed Adam walking up the stairs and down to Christie’s room relatively quickly in a few different ways so we would have alternatives to choose from. After this, even though we had decided to do it chronologically, we were forced to film Adam’s entrance as it was getting very dark, however it had begun to rain and we hadn’t realised. Unfortunately for Adam, we had to film during the rain, which wasn’t close to ideal as it hadn’t been raining in any of the previous scenes however it was only light and so hopefully when it comes to editing, we won’t be able to see it. We will only know how well it went/find out if we have to re-film when it comes to editing, which won't be for a while as we have decided to do it chronologically, however we are hopeful it all fits together suitably and look forward to finalising our film.

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