First day of filming

On our first day of filming we were really optimistic and eager to get started as we had done so much planning and had loads of ideas. Also the weather was as we wanted in our film to create the perfect atmosphere.

One set back we had was that we could only have the camera for one lesson (1hr 30mins) so we did not get a chance to film as much as we had wanted to. Also Jed could not come so early so we had to film without him. However we have decided that we are not going to use Jed in our film, but instead we are going to improvise by using just Kate who will be both the kidnappers. She is going to bring a change of clothes and is going to wear a balaclava to hide her identity to show a distinct difference between the two characters. This would make it easier to film as Kate is in the group and has an idea of what we want the film to look like.

We didn't manage to film the whole film like we would have hoped to have, so we plan to film the rest on Friday. We think we will have more than enough time.

Watching our footage back we have discovered things that we need to add in and some bits we need to film again for example, when Maria gets tied up we need to make it look like she is desperately struggling , as this will be more effective and make the audience feel sorry for her.

We also noticed small things like our bags in the shot, and give aways of our location. When we next film we are going to be more aware of these things and look to avoid them as it makes our film look less professional and a bit messy.

We already have 1min 8seconds worth of footage as we did not want to film too little and also we re-shot quiet a lot of scenes so we would have a choice of them in case something went wrong and we would have a range of shots to choose from.