Filming: Session 2

This weekend, although started out fairly hard turned out to be fairly successful with us getting the majority of our filming done. It took a large part of the day to the filming but this was mainly due to the late start and the fact that we had to move to a different location.

Our original plan was to meet for 10.00, on Sunday morning all at the same place. This quickly fell through however and we decided to postpone it to 10.30. At that time we were all in different places, I was outside school, where we were orginally supposed to meet. Diana and Clara were outside Belair Park and Kalyani was being driven to school by her Mum. As we were all in different places we decided, I would wait at the school and the take Kalyani to the location and Diana and Clara would walk over there and start.  Unfortunately Diana and Clara don't live in Dulwich meaning that they didn't know there way around and they didn't know where we were filming. This meant that I had to give them directions, which didn't go very well. When Kalyani arrived at 11, her Mum drove us down to the location, when we arrived Diana and Clara weren't there. They had been walking around trying to find it for the last half hour. So we had to go and find them and then walk down to the place, it turns out that they had walked past the location at least twice. So we started filming around 11.30, with Diana and Clara not being in the best of moods.

From then on the filming went great, we filmed for around 20 minutes in Lovers Walk and then got on the bus to go to Clapham. We quickly filmed Clara's section as she needed to go home and then soon afterwards we were done. I arrived home at around 6.00.

Looking back at the footage now, we are extremely happy with it. We filmed far too much which in many ways is a positive, as it gives us many options about which ones to choose. The only things wrong with the footage are that one or shots aren't fully straight which may be a problem. We will have to look at the footage and decide what to do as re-shooting may be a massive pain, and is one which we would like to avoid. Another problem may be the sound as there was several lines of dialogue which didn't come out fully clearly, though this should be able to be easily fixed.

AF