Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Filming evaluation - London 21/12/16


Filming evaluation - London

I am going to be evaluating our filming day in London. Including the successes and weaknesses of the day we spent filming in London.
The day started as planned and we all met at Maidstone East at 9:00 ready to get the 9:03 to Victoria unfortunately the train was almost 10 minutes late so our filming was set back a little. We managed to get to the station at 10:15 we managed to walk fast to St. James’ park and we managed to get some filming done quickly so we caught up time.
The shots in the park were difficult because there were young children and to film them we would need permission from their parents/carers so we avoided filming anyone else other than me and if we did get someone in the shot then they would be out of focus so you can’t see them properly.
After this we walked to Winter Wonderland in Hyde park. We chose this location as we thought it would be a popular location for people on their Christmas holidays with their children so we see happy families, unfortunately due to the time we arrived at the park there were not as many people there as we had hoped so the shots do not have as many people as we had hoped but you still get the idea of the homeless girl being alone in a place where everyone is with friends or family.
The next location we decided to use was Brixton as it would be less ‘nice’ than central London so it would be more the sort of place that this girl who has nothing would be from.


We also used shots in the tube station, these were affective as the tube stations were run down and in poor condition. However, it does not make sense because she would not be able to afford the ticket to get down to the station as she would need one to pass the barriers.


Another problem we had was I had not planned for us to have to find a public bathroom as we were going to do this in the mote park toilets in Maidstone. Unfortunately, the shots we have need a mirror which we did not realise until we were already there. Having not planned for these to have to be done in London we forgot about them so we are going have to go out filming again to film these shots in Maidstone. Probably in the Fremlin walk toilets.

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