Filming.

When we avvired at ferry meadows, we decided to take a variety of risks which would drasticaly change our final piece. This was because we felt that it would result in great benefit as it would add a variety of new shots and increase the pace of the film dramatically. We also chose the option to shoot frames a lot longer than we intended to as we felt it was much better to have too much and simply shorten the frames, than to not have enough.

Things we have decided to change.
After we had finished all the filming we started to edit our peice to create the opening sequence, but as agroup we thought that the pace of it just wasn't fast enough to make the audience feel uncomfotable and that it did not grab the audiences attention. Therefore, we decided to return to the woods and refilm some in more of a "chase" aspect. Unfortunatley the first time that we went to do this it was very dark and we did not realise how dark. This meant that the recording did not show on the camera, and it looked like this only if we had torches on and close up, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CvLa7K2vS8. So we decided to go back a third time to make sure we had everything filmed, when we returned for the third time it enabled us to be able to involve shots such as close-ups of the mans face in a puddle with the girl running through it to disturb the image a little, it also adds in extra pace. Also, to create a bit more pace and make it seem alot more chasey like, we decided that we would involve a point of view shot, or 'handheld camera' to create a shakey feel. As the weather was bad on the day of filming, the red ribbon that we planned to include was ruined, this didn't make the filming lose its affect so we decided to just carry on as normal, as a group we thought that we could possible go back and film again but because we had a strict time to do all the filming and editing in we decided that it wouldn't be the best idea and see what happened with the filming, as it may not effect anything that much. Whilst filming we recorded shots that we didn't have in our storyboard but that we thought may look good, again as we had a strict filming and editing time we thought we may as well have shots there that we may not use but could use if we chose to and not have the pressure of having to go back and film again. We came up with such shots as: high angles, unusually tilts and a mixture of shots underneath and behind objects.

Obstructions and Difficulties.
The weather was a difficulty whilst filming, flooding occurred in the park with we were worried about jeopardised our use of the park, however, we soon overcame this and came up with a route which meant we could avoid the flooded area so we could carry on like normal. The weather also became a problem for our equipment as at one moment through the filming there was a moment of torrential rain which meant we had to cover the camera (as that was the most important) alothough the heavy rain stopped there was still a little bit of drizzle around so we came up with a great idea of using the umbreallas to cover the camera instead of ourselves as the camera was more important that the way we looked. The battery life on the camera was a big issue in filming twice, the first time was when we filmed on the first go, this was because we used a very old camera and the battery ran out just before we finished filming the wood scenes, however when we walked over to the Ferry medows restaurant to warm up we asked if we could borrow one of their plugs in the seating area, and the allowed it so we over came a problem. Obviously one of the main problems we occured was when we filmed for the second time and it was very dark, we thought we could atleast try the nightmode but the problem with using that was that alothough it means the lens becomes bigger to allow more light to come in, on the camera we used it didnt have a light (unlike high tech cameras now days) so the recordings were very slow and it just didnt give us the effect we wanted.