1st Day of Filming - 20/12/13

All the cast and crew were arranged to arrive at my house for 11 AM, although admittedly we were not ready to film by at least midday. We first checked that all of our filming equipment was in order, checking the boom, directional microphone, camera, tripod, dolly wheels, micro-track and all the appropriate headphones and cables. After all of this was done we had to make sure that we had effectively collated all the necessary provisions, costumes and props for the scenes we hoped to shoot. This all consisted mainly of hats, coats and tennis rackets. Our actors arrived appropriately dressed for the shoot but also took to some costume enhancements. 

Once we were ready we made our way towards the estate in Dulwich which we had planned to use as our first location. The walk was not too long and we were able to share the load of the equipment between many hands so one could hardly describe it as gruelling. Upon arrival at the estate, we set up our first shot which is of Chris (Tom Hemington) standing beneath an underpass giving an interview on how he is struggling and so are many of his peers in the high pressure situation that they have found themselves in. Unfortunately an irate woman made us move from that particular area of public land and so we resumed filming soon after across the road, continuing on with Chris' interview. After this we filmed Robbo's (James Wilson) interview and then Carl's (Ranya El Refaey), both fairly near by due to convenience but also due to the area fitting our style and tone so seamlessly.

We continued to experiment with our character depictions, particularly Chris, for example switching from the initial, full-frontal camera long-shot we were using for his interview in the underpass to a side-on mid-shot as he leant against a brick wall, eventually zooming in for close-up. This felt like we were exploring multiple 'sides' of our character, as well as getting to grips with camera angling on a practical level.

During these interviews we used to boom pole to help us record sound on the micro-track, and having previously never used such advanced sound equipment we had to repeat several shots over in order make sure we had completed the task. Issues with wind interference were corrected.

CS & SL.