Filming in London (Problems and Solutions)

Problems
1. Not everyone was punctual meeting at Victoria Station.

2. We encountered another set of problems when we set up for filming Vinnie seeing Pete walk past. One of these problems was that we had to get permission from the shopkeeper to film outside his shop.

3. Another problem at this location was that there was building work going on opposite where we were filming so we had to work around a ladder being in the shot which became awkward.

4. Furthermore in this location, where Sam was walking up the alley, people kept looking up at the camera and making eye-contact with it, this would ruin the shot.

5. After lunch it began to rain and this would prove to be bad continuity for our scenes.

Solutions
1. No one was extremely late so it didn't cause a problem and thankfully no one was absent either.

2. We asked and we were allowed to film outside the shop with his chairs and tables.

3. After a while the builders left and we were able to resume with our filming.

4. To overcome this problem we had to keep re-shooting the same scene until we were happy that it wasn't evident that anyone was making eye-contact with the camera.

5. We just waited for it to stop raining. Luckily it didn't rain for long.

Filming in London (Location)

We went up to London on Wednesday the 11th February and we all met up at Waterloo Station at 11. Then we got the tube to Liverpool Street station as Kieran knew that there were good places to film around this location. After a few minutes of searching for an ideal location we came upon a couple of side streets near the station. This is where we filmed the majority of the opening sequence.



This photo was taken at the start of our filming of 'The English Life'. We're filming the opening scene of 'Pete' walking down a street in the area of Liverpool Street.


This photo was taken in the same location however the camera was set up in a different angle to film the character 'Pete' from behind. We had some problems with continuity (people walking who weren't there before), however with editing we were able to make the shots consistent with one another.


This photo was taken as we were filming a high angled shot from the top a multi-story carpark. We had access to this easily just by walking to the top of it and thus it allowed us to shoot some great shots. We kept in contact with one another via mobile phones. However there were also some problems, there were vans parked where we wanted to film which would make continuity difficult. Furthermore there was a building site next to the camera so the sound from there is quite evident, we would have to edit this out.

Title Screen

Today we started to develop our title/production clips for our film. This involved making a stop-start animation for our 'Happy Monkey Productions' clip. 

This is an example of what we were trying to achieve.