Filming Evaluation

We filmed all of our footage on Monday 19th November 2012 as planned. It was a dull day which was what we wanted and luckily it had been raining which meant that we had puddles to use to our advantage. It didn't rain any of the time throughout filming which was good.

We filmed all the shots we planned to film plus a few extras to ensure we had enough clips to fill in any gaps or additional time to make up to the 2 minute boundary.

Here are a selection of different shots we achieved:

As you can see by a snippet of our shots we have achieved a variety of different shots including close ups, long shots, tracker shot and match on action.

What went well 
We were happy with our shots as we had the perfect lighting and day, and accumulated some good techniques which were going to look good once edited. My favourite shot is when the two characters walk through the puddle which makes a splash and leaves the ticket floating in the water, this is my favourite because I think it looks professional and very effective. Also the shot of the water on the bench arm looks detailed and is a good example of a close up. The fact that we got so many shots was excellent as it was such a small area and one place of setting however we managed to get near to everything we needed. We used the bridge at the train station to our advantage, and filmed a lot of the shots off the edge and had the side wall to rest the camera on to have a stable non-shakey shot. We tried to follow our animatics whilst filming, which helped a lot as we knew exactly what shots to film, and then added any additional ones we thought would look good. Overall I thought our filming session was successful and we got everything done in one day. 

What problems we had
When we first arrived at the train station and informed the ticket lady we were filming for our media coursework she said we needed to contact a certain number in order to have permission. So we contacted the number and had a long wait until we finally got permission which was time consuming. Once we started filming we had one main problem, and this was actually filming effective shots that would show that Charlotte gets hit by the train. This was very hard to portray whilst filming our shots due to safety; as obviously she cannot jump in front of the train. So we had to think carefully how we was going to film it and just filmed little snippets to indicate a hazard; like her shoe laces being undone and being too far over the yellow line. We knew that we could make it more obvious when editing and could hopefully make the audience know what happens.

Due to us choosing such a difficult opening story line I think we done our best to portray what we wanted to happen with our filming.