Meeting Twenty Four

Today we went ahead with our last filming date with fingers crossed that the weather would be good today. The weather was really miserable when we left for Lakeside, but hoped it was different in Thurrock. We did get caught in traffic which caused panic about getting all the footage we wanted in the time we planned to get everything done by. Luck was on our side when we arrived. The sun was shining and Lakeside was busy - just how we needed it for a particular scene. We know wasn't worried about our timing. We believed we had enough time. We started off with filming our most time-consuming scene. The idea is to film our male and female character standing still, facing each other, completely till whilst the crowed people walked passed etc. Then in editing we plan to fast forward this so it symbolises that nothing matters apart from the couple, with everything else speading by. We planned to do this for 20 minutes. At first the actors were very conscious of the shoppers looking and making comments, especially the female having fits of laughter. But then in depseration to get our footage done, they were serious and stood completely still for 20 minutes. We then went to Broadwalk. An outside area of Lakeside where all the nice resturants are and where there is a lake with a giant fountain. We thought this was a very suited picturesque location for our video. We did various scenes here, experimenting with new ideas. Although the sun was shining, just how we wanted, we feared that there would be a glare when we play back the footage. So we ended up doing shots a lot more than we intended to and was really aware of our angles and framing. On a whole, the day was a success.