Filming of 'Lost but Found'

After creating our last and final story board we then planned a date, time and location for our filming, we came to the conclusion that our location would be at a park nearby to all of our houses so that it wasn't hard to get to and so that if we need to re film something in the future we could easily do this. At the same time as deciding which location we wanted for our opening sequences we had to consider a place which had a woods nearby, a public playground, involved a park, puddles as throughout our plan  we included all of these examples. After deciding our final decision of a location we then decided what equipment we would need to complete our filming which included of:

• 1 Tripod
• 1 Camera
• Actors (One young girl and boy and a mum)
• Costume
• Make up
• Teddy bear
• Gas mask

 

On the day of filming the weather was thankfully not dull and horrible so it was a successful day of filming in my groups eyes as we got everything done and I didn't actually take too long. Also thankfully all our actors we chose was reliable so they both turned up so we wasn't let down and also all of our group members also turned up so that from the start of the day everything was going to plan.

We all individually took a turn of filming as not only we all wanted to be fair to one and another we all wanted to boost up our skills and knowledge of the practical work. Thankfully we have 3 team members in our group so that we all was able to help each other for instance as one of us was filming another was able to direct the actors and another was able to see if everything looked okay so the job of that member would to look over everything. I really enjoyed filming because I had never done it before so it gave me great experience to get use to the camera and I also really enjoyed using the tripod as it made the filming a lot easier as you didn't have to hold the camera and make sure you held it right. Even though I have used a tripod before as I do photography I have never been able to use it in so much depth as I did that day. At times we found it a struggle to be able to move the tripod as sometimes the tripod would sink into the mud also another problem we came across was that once we altered the tripod size in height we struggled to get it the same later on if we needed to re-film something so a tip for next time would be to not adjust the height of the tripod until we had finished that whole part of the sequence. Another problem which occurred throughout our filming was that because me Chloe and Elana (the mum actor)had never met the young children before they wasn't as friendly and didn't listen to us as much in comparison to Laura-Jo who was there cousin but throughout the filming we became friendlier and got use to everyone's company so it made it a lot more easier and better to film.

We didn't in fact make too many changes from our story board to our filming. But at some parts we found it a struggle to film some of the scenes we had planned as for instance we didn't think when we was planning our opening sequence that a foot step technique would work. The idea of this was to make it look like the demon was walking but we couldn't see him which was one of my suggested ideas. But fortunately when we was filming we thought that if we did each of the steps as a still image we could then put them together in the editing process and it would work better. So hopefully when we get to the editing part of our coursework this idea would work. But if I would have to re film any of the takes we did I would have suggesting to go with the plan of tilting up to the young girls face instead of just doing a head on shot. Another change we made to our original story board was that we changed the opening as where our location was there wasn't a hill which suited what we had planned but I suggested that because woods are commonly used in horror/thriller movies we should do a shot which involved the wood which in the end we did.