As our film was going to be shot in Crouch End, some of our group members lived further away from the location than others which caused chaos when arriving to the location as it took some longer than others. This issue was eventually overcome once we all arrive to the location.
The first session went fairly well but we only had 3 hours to film so we hadn't filmed much, which meant we have to meet up again. Once we met up again, we discovered we didn't need the microphone since we had planned on using a voice-over for the majority of the video, so we unplugged the microphone. However, when we looked over the footage in college, we realised that the settings were set for the sound to work only when the microphone is plugged in, so we came to the conclusion that we had to film all over again as we needed sound for some of the scenes.
It became more and more difficult to meet up as it had happened so many times that some group members no longer had a lot of time, but we tried to make it work. During our third session, we came across so many errors and restrictions. One of our memory card slots were broken and we didn't know how to fix the settings to make just slot A work. This took us an hour and a half to figure out (we didn't actually figure it out, we called our teacher). Then, we were only left with one hour to film which meant we had to meet up for the fourth time to film.
The fourth filming session was purely chaos. Due to a loss of direction, we all met up an hour later than planned. We came to the conclusion that it was going to be our last filming session so we rushed everything as it was starting to get dark and we needed to film in day light. Just to make matters worse, it started to rain and we had no umbrella, so we grabbed the equipment, wrapped it up in our coats and ran to shelter. After all the rushing, we realised that the quality of our scenes were horrendous. They were extremely rushed and the camera was very shaky and uneven. Therefore, we had to meet up again.
This time, we had to meet even earlier in order to catch the day light. It was a sunny day but we didn't get much done as it was a school day and we only had 2 hours to film which, realistically, wasn't enough.
So we met up for the last time and shot all the scenes we had to re-do on a beautiful sunny day. Finally, we finished all the shots we had to do. Eventually, it was decided that the whole film should be re-shot so that's what happened. And now we're left with editing which consists of creating match cuts and jump cuts and adding music and voice overs.
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