Time management

We planned to film our opening two minutes on the 20th Dec 2013. This was harder to plan than we thought because we had to consider each others time. It seemed as though when one of us was free, the other two had other plans. It being so close to Christmas, only made it harder for us. It was really important for us to get the Christmas lights to be a main part in our opening so we really needed to get the filming done before they were turned off and taken down.
We finally were all free on the 3rd January. So we took that opportunity to go out and get all the scenes filmed. We were battling with the light that was quickly fading so that gave us even more pressure to get a good result.

The first hour or so of filming went really well. We filmed the first 5 shots without a hitch. We were having a lot of fun playing around with the tripod and the angle at which we would shoot the scene. It all started to go wrong for us when we started walking to the high street in Guildford. When we got there we realised that the Christmas lights were not turned on. This really worried us because the lights were one of the most important aspects of our opening. We decided to leave filming the Christmas lights for the time being and focus on our main scenes because Lauren our actress had to get home in a rush after we had filmed. Another worry we had was the light. In between takes, the light was fading really quickly. This worried us because we didn't want it to be light in one scene and dark in another. When we realised this, we make a bigger effort to get the shots done. Looking back this hurrying may have made our actual scenes not as good as they could have been, but the rush was necessary. The last few shots we filmed went really well because they were mainly close ups, so we didn't need to worry about the light.
We were really worried when we were planning our filming because we didn't think we would have enough shots to get 2 mintues. But this was nothing to worry about because we filmed for extra time than we had planned to give us some leeway.

Overall we are pleased with our filming but we would have liked to not have to worry about the light fading and the Christmas lights not being on. We had a great time filming and it was even more fun that we aticipated. Were happy with the results and hopefully the editing process will be just as fun.