Diary of Unsuccessful Day-Lucy Billinghurst

We arranged the second day of shooting to begin after school on Tuesday 31st March. We wanted to quickly finish our filming so we could get on with the rest of the project. We met up with the people who were starring in our film and drove to Brentwood. The filming took place in cafe A'Moore in Brentwood. We were on a tight schedule as the owner wanted to leave at half past four, but we managed to get all the filming done in the time we had, and it seemed to run smoothly. The actors we used were Year 13 Media Studies students and we used this to our advantage. They gave us advice on the type of shots we could use and how we could do them differently and originally. At the time, we thought that the day was successful. But we did have to re-shoot a minor scene as there was a car in the shot that was not previously there, and would have caused continuity errors when editing.

When we returned to school and viewed our film, we realised that the day had not been as successful has we had previously thought. We found many continuity errors, a lack of good shots and some of our actors made accidental glances at the camera. We decided that even with editing the film would be adequate, so we abandoned this film and arranged another day of filming.

Luckily, we had left enough time to be able to do another day, but we were disappointed as we thought that the day was successful and we could move forward with our project. But these mistakes taught us a lesson, that we could use throughout the rest of our coursework. We learnt that rather than rushing things, if we worked slowly and carefully, we would not leave room for errors. We also learnt that we should check the film we had whilst on location, so we would know to re-do a scene if necessary.