Reflection on filming - Victoria

Despite the amount of stress and worry we went through in terms of filming it actually went really well. We didn't know how we were going to approach filming, we knew we were using two DSLR camera's one was mine and the others was Ellie's but we didn't exactly know how to use two cameras to capture a scene, although it wasn't until I realized how to edit with two cameras that it's all down to syncing audio.

With Ellie's camera we were relying on backup shots and different angles because her sound wasn't working properly so I had to capture all the sound with mine and then later sync the audio with her shots in editing.

We didn't really know what to except when filming, especially as our main actor was a friend of Becky's and we didn't know her making us conscious about directing her in terms of shots and where to film so she's comfortable. A problem we faced was filming multiple angles with both me and Ellie in the same room, we struggled with positioning so we wouldn't capture the other cameraman such as the over the shoulder shots. 

We filmed a good portion outside which was also a struggle as we wanted a desolate location where it would seem really quiet and 'idle' which was hard because there was cars about which we figured could be cars left by their owners but the passing cars were an issue and we found ourselves having to stop filming every time a car passed or if somebody walked by we'd wait for them to be out of shot.

Overall I feel like filming well really well, we will not truly know the result of filming until we finish it and look at the final edited piece, however I do feel like it could have gone a lot worse, we had a well through out script, a good storyboard and good intentions, so it went well for a group who didn't have high exceptions of a good end result.