Filming towards 'Snatched'

After creating our last and final story board we then planned a date, time and location for our filming. We decided to do our filming one night after college rather than a weekend day as we found it too light the timing we filmed our last sequence so this time we decided to go later so it would help set the scene. As our location wasn't hard to get to we was able to either walk down to our local park or get a lift down so we didn't find it a struggle to make our way there. Also it was easy to locate our actors who we was using to get there as 2 out of the 3 was Laura Jo's family and the other young boy was her brother friend so he was free when we asked him. Before our filming we had to plan which equipment we needed so that we wouldn't forget anything so we came up with a list which included:

• 1 Tripod
• 1 Camera
• Actors For instance 2 young lads and a male figure
• Costumes
• Make-up
• Bikes
• One Football
• One Mobile Phone
• A Swing

On the first day of filming the weather was great as it wasn't too light nor dark as we went at just in time before it turned dark so that the lighting was mysterious. We thought that we got a lot done in our first night of filming as at first the lighting was great but as we knew it would get dark quick we wanted to rush and try and get all the shots filmed and at this time we thought we did which was brilliant. The next day we went back to college and uploaded the clips onto the programme but then we discussed and decided we had missing shots and we needed to re film shots as at some places some shots didn't go together as they looked jumpy and not fluent which we don't want it looking like so we then decided we would go the next day and re shoot some shots with the same actors the same equipment and the same time as you would then haver the same time although we faced our first problem as it started to rain a little bit during our filming so we had to keep stopping and starting and we was determined to get the filming over with so we could edit. 

During our filming we all took it in turns so we would all get better at filming. Which was good for my group was that we had all already had experience at filming so we already new a lot of the basics and camera movements which we needed to film so that we expected the filming part to be better than our last attempt. I really enjoyed filming although I found it a bit hard to film without the tripod as I have a really un steady hand which made us thankful that we had a tripod so it improved our filming. Although a problem we came across again was that the tripod at times sunk into the ground as I've already mentioned that it rained one day of our filming it made the ground soft so that there was many puddles about which we had to avoid. As it wasn't our first time at filming we didn't come across many problems in comparison to last time which was good as we altered everything we needed to learn from for instance our actors knew us so they didn't feel weird acting with us and being told what to do so for us directing the shoot and producing it we found it easier.

As I made many changes with our storyboards and thought about it in depth more than our first draft as we didn't think much about the storyboard before the filming so we had a lot of changes to think about. Although as the ground wasn't ideal for our plan of the young lads being dragged through the bush we decided that the better idea would be to be pulled over the bush and we was able to do this with our well thought out casting choice as we had a light boy in comparison to a strong male actor who was able to lift the lad over the bush.